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    A map of Savannah River beginning at Stone-Bluff, or Nexttobe... Scale ca. 1:132,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Annotated with brown ink. Oriented with north to the right. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief shown by hachures. Shows aspects of the physical geography and gives names of land holders. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1568 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2
    • Contributor: De Brahm, John Gerar William
    • Date: 1752-01-01
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    Plano de Puerto Cavello situado en la costa de Caracas en la ... Shows coast of Venezuela in the region of Puerto Cabello. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 998 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 58. Vault
    • Contributor: Rivero, Gabriel Joseph - Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain)
    • Date: 1756-01-01
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    Plano de la costa de punta de Canoa hasta bocachica con la so... Shows coast of Colombia in the region of Cartagena. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 267 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 165. Vault
    • Contributor: Curado, Juan Manuel
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    Plano de la costa de Honduras desde el Cavo de Gracias a Dios... Shows Atlantic coast of Central America covering Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, a small portion of Nicaragua, and a portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. Also shows routes of expeditions. Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: IV; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. Includes note. Date in the note: 1757. Annotated in black ink in upper left corner: N. 1 [indecipherable]. Maggs number annotated...
    • Contributor: Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain) - Linares, Juan
    • Date: 1756-01-01
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    Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection The Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection contains some 10,000 manuscript and printed sheets. A large portion of these map and atlas sheets were compiled by the Austrian cartographer and general Franz Ritter von Hauslab. These were later acquired by Prince Jordan II of Liechtenstein, whose own maps complemented the Hauslab collection, hence the name Hauslab-Liechtentstein. Within the collection there are examples of various types of map...
    • Contributor: Hauslab, Franz - Johann II, Fürst Von Und Zu Liechtenstein
    • Date: 1500
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    Map in Which the Rivers on Argentina, Parana and Paraguay are...
    Mappa geographicum quo flumen Argenteum, Paraná et Paraguay exactissime nunc primum describuntur, facto initio a nova Colonia ad ostium usque fluminis Iauru
    This atlas of colonial South America is by Miguel Antonio Ciera. A noted mathematician and professor of astronomy at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, Ciera was part of an expedition sent to demarcate the border between Spanish and Portuguese holdings in South America following signature of the 1750 Treaty of Madrid and the 1756 Guarani War. The atlas focuses on the southern part...
    • Contributor: Ciera, Miguel Antonio, 18th Century
    • Date: 1758-01-01
    • Resource: - 35 pages
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    [Fort Edward to Crown Point. Scale ca. 1:250,000. Title from manuscript catalog of the Peter Force map collection. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. In pencil: No. 26. "The original of this plan was found with General de Diskau when he was taken prisoner." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1; 651/2; 650/3
    • Contributor: Dieskau, Jean Hermant
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    Plano del Callao Shows coast of Peru in the region of Callao. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Watermarks: IV [unidentifiable watermark]; and, fleur-de-lis over the characters VDL. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 708 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed. Printed label describing the map mounted on verso. Annotated...
    • Contributor: Gómez Ureran, Antonio
    • Date: 1756-01-01
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    Descripcion de la costa de Tierra Firme desde el Cavo de la A... Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Title on verso: Palmas to Carthagena, 206. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, on tracing paper. Prime meridian: Ferro. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1687 LC Luso-Hispanic World, 41 Insets: Plans de la Nueva Vera Cruz; con todos sus bajos, yslas, y sondas situado in los 19⁰10ʹ de latd. Norte y en 277⁰5ʹ de longt. segun el meridiano de Tenerife...
    • Contributor: Cierto, Balentin - Rodríguez, Felis
    • Date: 1757-01-01
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    Plano de la Bahía de Fort Real cituado a la parte del oeste d... Also shows villages of Fort-de-France and Le Lamentin. Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 521 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 224. Blue pen ink annotated on label on verso: 6883-23. Vault Latin American Atlantic Port...
    • Contributor: Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain) - Curado, Juan Manuel
    • Date: 1758-01-01
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    Part of Georgetown, Maryland Cadastral survey map of area bounded by 33rd St., M St., Wisconsin Av. N.W., and the Georgetown waterfront, Washington D.C. Does not show ownership. Relief shown by hachures. Red ink, black ink, and blue wash. Fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Phillips. Washington 508 Vault DCP
    • Contributor: Seibert, S. R.
    • Date: 1752-01-01
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    A draught of Lake George, and part of Hudson's River taken Se... Scale ca. 1:253,440. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Indexed for points of interest. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1076 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1; 651/2; 650/3
    • Contributor: Loring, Joshua
    • Date: 1756-01-01
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    Plano de la entrada para Guayaquil con todas las yslas y cost... Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Brown ink and pencil. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 407 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index and note. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 112. Vault
    • Date: 1751-01-01
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    Plano de la entrada para Guayaquil con todas las yslas y cost... Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 410 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed. Written and signed in lower right corner: Esta segun lo mas probable hasta oy 26 de mayo de 55 que es por uno lebantado en la presente Ysla de la Puna...
    • Contributor: Curado, Juan Manuel
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    A Plan of Cape Antonia. Scale ca. 1:62,000. Title on verso: Cape Antonia, 130. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on tracing paper. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Depths shown by soundings. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 306 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1787 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Date: 1758-01-01
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    Mapa y tabla geografica de leguas comunes que hay de unos á o... Shows North America. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. "Dedicada al exm̃o señor D. Agustín de Ahumada y Villalón, marqués de las Amarillas, ... virrey governador y captain general de esta Nueva Espana." Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes notes and distance chart. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 92 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Ahumada Y Villalón, Agustín De
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    Plano de la costa de Tierra Firme desde Santa Marta asta la p... Shows coast of Colombia between Fuerte Island and Santa Marta. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 268 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes indexed inset of Cartagena. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 3. Annotated in black ink in lower right corner: N....
    • Contributor: Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz) - Modesto Matheos, Antonio
    • Date: 1757-01-01
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    Plan of the attack on Fort William Henry and Ticonderoga; sho... Scale 1:253,440; 4 miles to an in. Title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America, p. 852. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermark. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1; 650/2
    • Contributor: [Montrésor, James Gabriel]
    • Date: 1757-01-01
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    S[i]r: This is minuts of the fort at Crown Point and of the r... Scale ca. 1:6,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermarks. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Johnson, William - Rogers, Robert
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    Plan de la ville du Trou Jéremie, rélatif à l'article 13 du p... Scale ca. 1:3,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on tracing paper mounted on heavy paper. Watermark: Queen Laid with a D within a diamond above. Imperfect: Holes along folds and discolored. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown by shading. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1896 LC Luso-Hispanic World, 458 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
    • Date: 1752-01-01
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    Tybee Island. Covers part of Tybee Island (Ga.) and part of surrounding islands and waters. Shows buildings and vegetation. Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil. Oriented with north to the bottom. Cumming 279. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1591 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC has negative photocopy. Vault
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    Plano del Puerto de Camariñas situado en la costa de Galicia ... Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Watermark: Powder horn on leather strap. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 793 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes note and index. Annotated in black ink in lower margin: 4. Annotated in pencil on verso: Source unknown, Nov. 29, 1940. Map is...
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    A Plan of the fort at Chiegnecto Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Has watermark. Includes index to points of interest and profile view. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 409 Vault AACR2
    • Date: 1751-01-01
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    Plano o descripción de la Punta de Araya y su fondeadero, par... Shows coast of Venezuela in the region of Araya. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Watermark: J. Honig & Zoonen. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 1002 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes note and view. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 36. Vault
    • Date: 1754-01-01
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    Plano Depuerto [sic] Caballo y Omoa en la costa de Honduras s... Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 500 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 256. Vault
    • Contributor: Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain) - Curado, Juan Manuel
    • Date: 1756-01-01
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    Descripción o carta de golfo que contiene la costa de España,... Also shows routes of expeditions. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermark: PVL [Pieter van Ley] in 1 character. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 13 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Printed label describing the map mounted on verso. Annotated in black ink in lower right corner: N. 1o [indecipherable]. Order number annotated in pencil...
    • Contributor: Muñoz, Gabriel - Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain) - Blanco, Jph
    • Date: 1756-01-01
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    Plano de Philadelphia Scale ca. 1:220,000. Manuscript, pen and ink. Copied from Joshua Fishers' "To the merchants & insurers of the city of Philadelphia, this chart of Delaware Bay and river." Depths shown in fathoms. Oriented with north to the right. Shows shipping channels. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1353 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
    • Contributor: Fisher, Joshua
    • Date: 1756
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    Plano de la Baía de Guantánamo, en la ysla de Cuva, cuya boca... Scale ca. 1:125,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Mounted on cloth backing. In lower right corner: R. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 124. Indexed LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1836 LC Luso-Hispanic World, 342 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Date: 1751-01-01
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    [Huang He nan he tu].
    [黃河南河圖] | Map of the lower reaches of the Yellow River
    Scale not given. Title pasted on verso. Manuscript on silk. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Shows lower portion of the Yellow River in Jiangsu Province. Hummel purchase 1930, no. 21. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Prev. call no.: G7822.Y4A5 1753 .H8 Vault Shelf AACR2: 651/1; 650/2
    • Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    Mapa de una parte de la America Septentrional Scale ca. 1:8,500,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink tracing. Prime meridian: Paris. Relief shown pictorially. "Los limites propuestos dentro las memorias de los Señores Commissarios Inglezes del 21 Septbre. 1750, y Enero 1751 ... " Shows eastern North America from Virginia to Labrador. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 10 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Date: 1751-01-01
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    Plano de Costa Rica Shows lower eastern coast of Nicaragua. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 622 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 149. Vault
    • Contributor: Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain) - Linares, Juan
    • Date: 1758-01-01
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    [Shan jing Shu dao tu]
    [陝境蜀道圖] | Annotated road map from Shaanxi to Sichuan
    Scale ca. 1:16,000. Title supplied. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Bird's-eye-view. Covers Wei River in Baoji Xian, Shanxi Sheng to "Shu Dao" in Shanxi-Sichuan border. Shows settlements, rest stops, stations, inns, temples, mountain passes, walled cities, bridges, and scenic areas along "Shu Dao". Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Purchase; Arthur William Hummel;...
    • Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    Plano de la Ysla de Santo Domingo, parte de las Cuba, Jamaica... Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermarks: IV; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Mounted on cloth backing. Also shows roads and villages. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 478 Inset: Plano de la ciudad de Sto. Domingo y su río. Annotated in black ink in upper right corner: N. 5. J.F.B. Order number annotated in pencil in lower margin: 367883/27. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right...
    • Contributor: Mejía, Juan Viz - Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain) - Badaraco, Joseph Francisco
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    Chūko keishi naigai chizu : Hakushū [i.e. Kōshū] shoyo senbu.
    中古京師内外地圖 : 白州 [i.e. Kōshū] 緖餘撰部 | Chūko keishi naigai chizu, Kōshū choyo senbu
    Shows temples, shrines, palaces, mansions, etc. in Kyoto. Japanese. Pen-and-ink and watercolor, probably by Mori Kinsai. Sesshū Higashinari-gōri Shitennōji, Osaka, Mori Kinsai Kōan. Alternative title inferred from CiNii online, April, 9, 2020: Chūko keishi naigai chizu, Kōshū choyo senbu. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 96-11b "森謹齋幸安珍重圖並識." Copy has "Keiin Geisō"[?] "桂蔭芸〓"...
    • Contributor: Mori, Kinsai
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    Plan du Petit Goâve et de son acul pour servir au projet géné... Scale ca. 1:5,200. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on tracing paper. Has watermark. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by soundings. Imperfect: Deteriorated and discolored along folds. On verso, upper left corner: No. 22. [changed to] 12. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 472 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1893 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Date: 1752-01-01
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    Plano del puerte de Sta. Marta situado en la costa de Tierra ... Shows coast of Colombia in vicinity of Santa Marta. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 265 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 79. Vault
    • Contributor: Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain) - Curado, Juan Manuel
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    Ticonderoga as it was in 1759. Scale ca. 1:84,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, on tracing paper. Includes index to military activities. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1118 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Date: 1759-01-01
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    Plano o descripción de la Punta de Araya y su fondeadero, par... Shows coast of Venezuela in region of Araya. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Watermark: J. Honig & Zoonen. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 1001 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes note and view. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 188. Vault
    • Date: 1754-01-01
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    Plano de el Puerto de Corcubión situado al norte de España en... Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 788 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes note and index. Annotated in black ink in lower margin: 4. Annotated in pencil on verso: Source unknown, Nov. 29, 1940. Map is listed as one of 14 offered for sale in 1921 by Maggs Bros.,...
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    Plano del puerto de Sta. Marta situado en la costa de Tierra ... Shows coast of Colombia in vicinity of Santa Marta. In cartouche of Real Escuela de Navegación, Departamento de Cádiz: 1756. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 266 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated...
    • Contributor: Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain) - Linares, Juan
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    [Partie intérieure de l'Amérique septentrionale : Nouvelle An... Shows the site of General Braddock's defeat, 1755, the line of the army's movements, forts, Indian settlements, etc. Covers the area from approx. the location of Quebec city, west to Lake Erie north of Cleveland, south to the Potomac. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil on tracing paper. Designed to be colored in 6 colors. LC copy has only one color partially completed. Includes inset of...
    • Contributor: Franquet
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    [Da Qing fen sheng yu tu].
    [大清分省舆图] | Provincial atlas of the great Qing Dynasty
    Shows administrative divisions of 18 provinces in Qing period. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Title supplied. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call number: G2305 .D35 1782 Vault Shelf Previous call number: G2305 .T15 17-- Vault
    • Date: 1754-01-01
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    Plano o descripcn. de Puerto Cavello situado en la latd. nort... Shows coast of Venezuela in the vicinity of Puerto Cabello. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermarks: IV; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 999 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes note. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 257. Vault
    • Contributor: Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain) - Denias, Francisco
    • Date: 1757-01-01
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    Plano del desembocadero del Río Misipipi en el seno Mexicano ... Scale ca. 1:1,550,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolors. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Mounted on cloth backing. Printed label describing the map mounted on verso. Order number annotated in pencil in lower margin: 321222/23. Depths shown in fathoms. Imperfect: Left lower corner missing. Shows settlements. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 846 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1600 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as...
    • Contributor: Montes De Oca, Diego
    • Date: 1756-01-01
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    No. 1. Magruder & Bealls "Honesty" ; No. 2. Alexander Island,... Cadastral survey maps. "Beginning of the Resurvey of Honesty ... January 1st 1753 for 865 acres." Pen-and-ink. Soiled, fold-lined, torn, taped, missing small sections, and faced with rice paper. Includes notes and tables of survey data. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault DCP
    • Date: 1753-01-01
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    General Map of the Diocese of Pará: Shows the Division of Par...
    Mappa geral do bispado do Pará: repartido nas suas freguezias que nele fundou, e erigio o Exmo. e Revmo. Snr. D. Fr. Miguel de Bulhões III Bispo do Para
    This map shows the territory of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belem do Pará. The diocese was founded in 1720, following its separation from the Diocese of São Luis do Maranhão, and was centered in the city of Belém, the capital of Pará state. The map shows the extent of the diocese under Bishop Miguel de Bulhões e Souza (1706-78), who served as a...
    • Contributor: Galluzzo, Henrique Antonio, 1769
    • Date: 1759-01-01
    • Resource: - 4 pages
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    [Ming shi san ling tu].
    [明十三陵图] | Map of the Ming Dynasty Tombs
    Perspective map not drawn to scale. Title supplied. Manuscript on silk. Brush-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown pictorially. Bird's-eye view. Shows the sites of the 13 Ming emperors' tombs and their environs, including the Great Wall and its strategic gates near Beijing. Hummel purchase 1930, no. 17. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a...
    • Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1757-01-01
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    Nueba descripcion de el gran Rio de la Plata nuebmente correg... Depths shown by soundings. Date from LC nautical charts on vellum. Pen-and-ink and gouache. Includes two insets showing Barragan and the Montevideo harbor and color illustrations. Annotated "Phillipps MS. 26437" on recto and verso, indicating the chart was in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Also on verso is a label marked "407", the catalog number of the map from the Sotheby's London sale...
    • Contributor: Sardinera
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    Plan of the Brazilian Coast from Sohipe to São João Island.
    Plano da Costa do Brasil desde o Sohipe athê a ilha de S. João
    This manuscript nautical map shows a stretch of the Brazilian coast from the town of Sohipe to São João Island. This coastline today is part of the state of Bahia. Bahia has Brazil's country's longest coastline and, during the early colonial period, boasted several important export centers. Features indicated on the map include water-depths, coastal rocks and shoals, and prevailing currents.