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MapTotius Africæ accuratissima tabula Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
- Date: 1688-01-01
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MapAfricae nova tabula Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes watermark. Acquisitions control no. 6-85
- Contributor: Boisseau, Jean - Picart, H. (Hugues) - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1640-01-01
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MapAfrica. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper and lower left corner of sheet cut out. Pin holes in margins of all corners.
- Contributor: Florimi, Matteo - Arnoldi, Arnoldo DI
- Date: 1600-01-01
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MapMuriel H. Parry map collection The collection consists of some 871 maps that are largely pictorial. Muriel H. Parry, a librarian for the U.S. State Department, compiled the maps and several were deaccessioned from the State Department's library. Formats in the collection include single map and maps in books, magazines, calendars, and advertisements. In addition, there are maps on napkins, gift cards, cloth, etc. Included are maps by Ernest...
- Contributor: Parry, Muriel H. - Chase, Ernest Dudley - Clegg, Ernest - Shelton, Hal - Gill, Macdonald - Harrison, Richard Edes - Wallingford, Daniel K.
- Date: 1538
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MapA description of the sea coasts ... in the East Indies
Hack's descript of ye East Indies | Buccaneer atlas Covers the coasts of eastern Africa, India, and the East Indies. Relief shown pictorially. Each drawing bears a brief description with soundings, distances and facts regarding anchorages and navigation of rivers which might be of value in pirating activities. This atlas is known as the "Buccaneer atlas" because it results from the experience of Hacke in association with Captain Bartholomew Sharpe, the notorious Buccaneer...- Contributor: Hacke, William
- Date: 1690-01-01
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CollectionGeneral Maps This category includes maps that typically portray the physical environment and a variety of cultural elements for a geographic area at a particular point in time. The maps in this category show a geographic area larger than a city or town and do not display a subject that is part of one of the thematic categories.
- Date: 1290
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Map[A portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent continents]. Also shows the southeast Pacific Ocean, the southwest Indian Ocean, as well as the continents of South America, Africa, Europe, and portions of North America and Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 16 LC Luso-Hispanic World, 10 Pen-and-ink and watercolor, matted and mounted between panels of transparent Lucite plexiglass; the panels are riveted on a rigid frame...
- Contributor: Roiz, Pascoal
- Date: 1633-01-01
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MapNova et acurata totius Africae tabula
Title from cartouche: Africa | Title of Latin text: Nova Africae descriptio | Title of Dutch text: Beschryvinge van Africa | Title of French text: Nouvelle description l'Afrique Relief shown pictorially. Includes 2 diagrams, text, and illustrations. Title strip printed separately from map. Text in right, left and bottom margins by Nicolaes Visscher. Printed separately from map. Illustrations of local residents/costumes in left margin: Senagenses -- Mercator, dominvs, servus in Guinea -- Guinearum mvlieres et ancilla -- Cabo Lopes Gonsalvi accolae -- Magnates in Congo -- Miles Congensis cum femina -- Promontorii...- Contributor: Visscher, Nicolaes - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1657
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MapThe English pilot, describing the sea-coasts, capes ... in the northern and southern navigation, shewing the courses and distances ... and many other necessary things belonging to the practical part of navigation, ... According to the preface, Seller had planned the work in 4 books. The Brit. Mus. Cat. v. 218, 698 lists a copy with the third book of which 24 pages were published. Each volume also has special title page. Vol. 1 has 25 maps of which the 3d is in duplicate; the 12th (as recorded in P. L. Phillips, A list of geographical atlases....
- Contributor: Seller, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Darby, John
- Date: 1671
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