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MapThe World, on Mercator's Projection.
The world, on Mercator's projection This world map is from the General Atlas of the World published by A & C Black in 1840. Adam Black founded his publishing company in Edinburgh in 1807. The firm dealt predominantly in maps and atlases for the rest of the 19th century. General Atlas of the World was published in successive editions up to 1898. The map is a good reflection of...- Contributor: Aikman, George
- Date: 1840-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapCarta universal en que se contiene todo lo que del mundo se ha descubierto fasta agora In lower margin: The second Borgian map by Diego Ribero, Seville 1529. "Reproduced from the original in the Museum of the 'Propaganda' in Rome, lent by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, by W. Griggs, London." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Ribero, Diego
- Date: 1887-01-01
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MapTypus universalis terre. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. From: A.E. Nordenskiold Facsimile atlas, 1889.
- Contributor: Reisch, Gregor
- Date: 1889-01-01
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MapWilliam McKinley map collection, 1890-1906 The collection consists of 14 maps associated with the larger collection of papers belonging to former U.S. President William McKinley that are held in the Manuscript Division. This collection includes an annotated Russo-Japanese War map, a religious-themed map, a map of Vermont, weather maps, maps of religious missions in China, annotated U.S. railroad maps, an annotated map of Yellowstone National Park, blueprint maps, and...
- Contributor: Huebinger, M. (Melchior) - McKinley, William
- Date: 1890
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MapGran tavola cosmografica contenente le rotazioni annuali terresti corrispondenti al sole : veduta dai poli per meglio far conoscere l'alternativa delle ombre e della luce : con sue refrazioni, posizione della luna ... Includes text, four hemispherical views of the Earth showing night and day and different times and latitudes, and colored illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Discoloration along edges, torn and repaired, wrinkles, and loses along edges.
- Contributor: Villa, Ignazio
- Date: 1855
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MapGlobus aus der Mitte des XVI Jahrhunderts
Title within gores: Nova et integra universi orbis descriptio Relief shown pictorially. Dedication: Reverre[n]diss. et illustriss. Do. Do. Urbano Sangelasio episcopo Com[m]ingiensi, Joan[n]es Oterschaden Belga humillime D.D. Original version: [Antwerp? ; s.n., ca. 1603]. Date of original from Shirley's Mapping of the world. Gores for a 17 cm. globe. Includes ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy marked "20." in blue pencil in lower...- Contributor: Oterschaden, Johannes - Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Militär-Comité
- Date: 1879-01-01
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MapErster gedruckter Globus, Martin Hylacomylus (Waltzemüller) : gehört wahrscheinlich zu seinem 1509 herausgegeben Buch "Globus mundi' ; Zweiter gedruckter Globus, Peter Apianus : in dessen Cosmographicus liber, 1524, sich bereits ein Globus ... Relief shown pictorially on "Zweiter" globe. Titles in German. Place names in Latin. "Phot.-lith. im k.k.t.u.a. Militär-Comité." According to Shirley's Mapping of the world, 1993, the "Zweiter" globe was created by an unknown cartographer in Ingolstadt around 1518, not by Peter Apian in 1524, and the Waldseemüller gores were created in Strassburg in 1507. Original version of Waldseemüller gores : [Strassburg?, 1507]. Original version...
- Contributor: Apian, Peter - Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Militär-Comité - Waldseemüller, Martin
- Date: 1879-01-01
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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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MapMap showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and contemplated, to complete the circuit of the globe Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes note. Acquisitions Control no. 20-83
- Contributor: Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss - J.H. Colton & Co - G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co
- Date: 1855-01-01
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MapMap of the world Relief shown by shading. Title within illustration of eagle. Lower left corner cut away. Mounted on cloth. Gift ; Miss Faith Bradford ; July 1957. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Knight, Elizabeth
- Date: 1810-01-01
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MapThe world on Mercator's projection, Scale ca. 1:33,000,000. Hand colored. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Relief shown pictorially. "Published by John Melish & Saml. Harrison." Cartouche: H. Bridport, deld. [sic], G. Murray, sct. Includes text "To find the distance of one place from another" and statistical table. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 650/1; 700/1; 700/2
- Contributor: Bridport, Hugh - Murray, George - Harrison, Samuel - Melish, John
- Date: 1817-01-01
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MapMap of the square and stationary earth : four hundred passages in the Bible that condemn the Globe Theory, or the Flying Earth, and none sustain it ; this map is the ... Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Don Homuth; September 2011. Accompanied by envelope containing illustrations, CD-ROM of Ferguson family gravesite, transcriptions of Orlando Ferguson's obituaries, and photocopy and CD-ROM of "The globe theory of the earth refuted". Fold-lined. Conserved.
- Contributor: Ferguson, Orlando - L.H. Everts & Co
- Date: 1893-01-01
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MapWorld. Relief shown by hachures. Box title. Alternate title: The world on Mercator's projection. Accompanied by: The world on Mercator's projection. 1 map : col. ; 29 x 44 cm. LC copy imperfect: One broken piece; small portion of a piece missing; accompanying map brittle. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault Shelf
- Contributor: Philip & Tacey Ltd
- Date: 1840-01-01
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MapWallis's New dissected map of world : engraved from the latest authorities for the use of young students in geography ; Neele, sculpt., Strand. "Published June 25th 1812 by John Wallis, 42 Skinner Street, London." Title from label on wooden box. Label on spine of wooden box: Scotland. Map consists of 2 hemispheres each 32 cm. in diam. LC copy imperfect: Several pieces missing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault Shelf
- Contributor: Wallis, J. (John) - Neele, Samuel John
- Date: 1812-01-01
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MapCarte figurative et approximative représentant pour l'année 1858 les émigrants du globe, les pays dóu ils partent et ceux oú ils arrivent Fold-lined, mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Minard, Charles Joseph - Legoyt, A. (Alfred) - Regnier Et Dourdet (Firm)
- Date: 1858-01-01
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MapChart. "...to accompany Report no. 596, made by T. Butler King,..." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Maury, M. F.
- Date: 1848-01-01
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MapThe world on Mercator's projection, Scale ca. 1:33,000,000. Hand colored. Mounted on cardboard and cloth backing. Relief shown pictorially. LC copy imperfect: Small pieces missing. Discolored and brittle. Cartouche: H. Bridport, deld. [sic], G. Murray, sct. Includes text "To find the distance of one place from another" and statistical table. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 650/1; 700/1; 700/2
- Contributor: Bridport, Hugh - Murray, George - Harrison, Samuel - Melish, John
- Date: 1820-01-01
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MapCarte figurative de l'exportation de la houille Anglaise en 1850 Includes statistics. Fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 2003-11b
- Contributor: Minard, Charles Joseph - Regnier Et Dourdet (Firm)
- Date: 1850-01-01
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MapColton's illustrated & embellished steel plate map of the world on Mercator's projection : compiled from the latest & most authentic sources exhibiting the recent Arctic and Antarctic discoveries & explorations Relief shown by hachures. Includes illustrations of cities and people along filigreed border. Inset: view of Antarctic Continent as seen by the U.S. Ship Peacock, January 19th, 1840. 4 x 29 cm. List of distances to and from various cities around the world at the top of map. An explanation of projection at the top of map. An explanation of scale in the lower...
- Contributor: Johnson, D. Griffing
- Date: 1854-01-01
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MapRevised World Map. This world map was completed by Takahashi Kageyasu (1785-1829) of Tenmonkata (the office in charge of astronomy). He began the work on the 1807 by order of the shogunate government, with the assistance of astronomer Hazama Shigetomi and Dutch interpreter Baba Sajūrō, who was summoned to Edo (present-day Tokyo) from Nagasaki in 1808. Kageyasu submitted the first version of the map to the government...
- Contributor: Hazama, Shigetomi - Aōdō, Denzen - Baba, Sajūrō - Takahashi, Kageyasu
- Date: 1816-01-01
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MapThe world from the discoveries & observations made in the latest voyages & travels Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Cooke, Charles - Cooke, George Alexander - Arrowsmith, Aaron
- Date: 1807-01-01
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MapDa Qing wan nian yi tong tian xia quan tu.
大清万年一统天下全图 | The great Qing Dynasty's complete map of all under heaven Scale ca. 1:2,500,000. Covers from Korea to India, from Russia to Brunei. Shows the world known to the Chinese, with China at the center of the map. Wood block print. Relief shown pictorially. Based on the original map drawn by Huang Qianren in 1767. Hummel purchase 1930, no. 18. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text....- Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William) - Huang, Qianren
- Date: 1811-01-01
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MapThe world, on a globular projection, exhibiting the geographical researches of modern travellers & navigators Relief shown pictorially. Purchase; FY '13 Philip Lee Phillips Society purchase; March 2013. Includes statistics and illustrations of the world's highest mountains and longest rivers by continents. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy sectioned into 24 and mounted on cloth to facilitate folding. Two marbled covers affixed to verso. Dealer: Vobam, Sweden
- Contributor: Vance, D. H. (David H.)
- Date: 1826-01-01
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MapThe world on Mercator's projection, Scale ca. 1:33,000,000. Hand colored. Mounted on cloth backing. Relief shown pictorially. LC copy 2 imperfect: Small pieces missing. Discolored, surface varnished. "Published by John Melish & Saml. Harrison." Cartouche: H. Bridport, deld. [sic], G. Murray, sct. Includes text "To find distance of one place from another" and statistical table. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault...
- Contributor: Bridport, Hugh - Murray, George - Harrison, Samuel - Melish, John
- Date: 1818-01-01
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MapNew map of the world in hemispheres : with comparative views of the heights of the principal mountains and lengths of the principal rivers on the globe. Relief shown by hachures. Text on verso. "Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1879, by O.W. Gray & Son, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington". Includes illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: O.W. Gray & Son
- Date: 1879-01-01