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MapPlan 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.- Date: 1750-01-01
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MapSpherical Map That Shows the North of the Santo Domingo Island and the Eastern Part of Canal Viejo of Bahamas.
Carta esferica que comprehende los desemboques al norte de la Isla de Sto Domingo y la parte oriental del Canal Viejo de Bahama This early-19th century Spanish naval map shows the eastern Caribbean, from the northern coasts of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and Cuba to the Bahamas. The map was engraved by Fernando Selma (1752-1810), a well-known Spanish engraver who produced not only maps, but also portraits of notable Spaniards.- Contributor: Selma, Fernando
- Date: 1802-01-01
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MapMap of the Brazilian Coast, Which Goes from Santa Ana Island to the Joatinga, Copied from a Portuguese Map and Printed on January, 1785.
Carta plana de la costa del Brasil, que contiene desde las islas de Sta. Ana hasta la punta Joatinga, copiado de un original portugues impreso en el janeiro, en 1785 This Spanish map showing part of the Brazilian coast is a copy of an earlier Portuguese map. The inset map in the upper left shows the harbor of Rio de Janeiro.- Contributor: Cerviño, Pedro Antonio
- Date: 1800-01-01
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MapNautical Chart of the Mediterranean Basin.
Carta nautica del bacino del Mediterraneo This portolan nautical chart, of Catalan origin, illustrates the coastal areas of the Mediterranean Sea with a wealth of detail, with toponyms of the inhabited areas shown without regard to political-territorial divisions. Nautical charts came into use on sailing vessels in the Mediterranean toward the end of the 13th century, coinciding with much broader seafaring activity and exploration. These charts supplemented the written instructions,...- Contributor: Prunes, Mateus, Flourished
- Date: 1553-01-01
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MapMediterranean Sea Region 1569. This portolan chart by the prominent Italian cartographer and engraver Paolo Forlani is the first sea chart engraved and printed on copperplate. Forlani was born in Verona but flourished in Venice in 1560--74. Most of his maps appeared under the imprint of other publishers, including Giovanni Francesco Camocio, Ferrando Bertelli, and Bolognini Zaltieri in Venice and Claudio Duchetti in Rome-members of the Lafreri school...- Contributor: Forlani, Paolo
- Date: 1569-01-01
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MapVariations of the Compass for the Year 1925. The annotation on this map reads, "Used in laying out route for flight from San Diego to St. Louis to New York to Paris, 1927" and is signed C.A. Lindbergh. The map bears the official stamp: "CORRECTED THROUGH NOTICE TO MARINERS NO 25 JUNE 19'26 HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE NAVY DEPARTMENT." Charles Lindbergh (1902--74) was the American aviator who made the first nonstop solo flight across...- Contributor: United States. Hydrographic Office - Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
- Date: 1926-01-01
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MapGreat Circle Sailing Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean. Charles Lindbergh (1902--74) was the American aviator who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 21--22, 1927. This is the chart with the gnomonic projection that he referred to as the "nugget of gold" that he found in a shop in San Pedro, California, while preparing for his transatlantic flight. It was this chart that enabled Lindbergh to determine...- Contributor: United States. Hydrographic Office - Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
- Date: 1926-01-01
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MapNorth Atlantic Ocean: Northeastern Sheet [portion]. This is one of four charts held at the American Geographical Society Library that the American aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902--74) used to plan his historic transatlantic flight. Lindbergh was an airmail pilot who, in 1926, learned of the $25,000 prize for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris. Backed by a group of businessmen in St. Louis, Missouri, Lindbergh had a special...- Contributor: United States. Hydrographic Office - Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
- Date: 1922-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMaritime Atlas. This work is an illuminated and illustrated maritime atlas, referred to as the Walters Deniz atlası. It is one of the earliest Ottoman atlases, tentatively dated to around the mid-16th century. The work contains eight double-page charts executed on parchment. Four of the maps show the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Black seas. There is also a world map and a chart of the Indian Ocean....- Date: 1500-01-01
- Resource: - 18 pages
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MapMap of the City and Bay of Cartagena de las Indias.
Plano de la Cyudad y Bahya de Cartagena de las Yndias Situado a los 300 Gs. 41 Ms de Longytud Prymer Merydo. el Pyco de Teneryfe y 10 Grs 27 Ms. de Latytud Boreal en el Nuevo Reyno de Granada. Levantado por D. Juan de Herrera, Ratyfycado y Delyneado por D. Antonyo de Ulloa This hand-colored pen-and-ink manuscript map was drawn by Antonio de Ulloa (1716--95) in 1735, based on an earlier map by Juan de Herrera dating from around 1721. It shows in great detail the bay of Cartagena de Indias and the adjacent coastal area of the present-day city of Cartagena, Colombia. The territory was then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada in the Spanish...- Contributor: Herrera Y Sotomayor, Juan De, Flourished - Ulloa, Antonio De
- Date: 1735-01-01
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MapA Hydrographical and Chorographical Chart of the Philippine Islands.
Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas Dedicada al Rey Nuestro Señor por el Mariscal d. Campo D. Fernando Valdes Tamon Cavallo del Orden de Santiago de Govor. Y Capn This magnificent map of the Philippine archipelago, drawn by the Jesuit Father Pedro Murillo Velarde (1696--1753) and published in Manila in 1734, is the first and most important scientific map of the Philippines. The Philippines were at that time a vital part of the Spanish Empire, and the map shows the maritime routes from Manila to Spain and to New Spain (Mexico and other...- Contributor: Bagay, Nicolás De La Cruz - Murillo Velarde, Pedro
- Date: 1734-01-01
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MapGeneral Atlas of All the Islands in the World.
Islario general de todas las islas del mundo Islario general de todas las islas del mundo (General atlas of all the islands in the world) is the greatest work by Seville cosmographer Alonso de Santa Cruz (1505--67). The atlas was begun during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V and finished in that of his son King Philip II, to whom it was dedicated. It consists of...- Contributor: Santa Cruz, Alonso De
- Date: 1539-01-01
- Resource: - 717 pages
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MapAtlas of Joan Martines.
Atlas de Joan Martines This manuscript atlas by Joan Martines, cosmographer to King Philip II of Spain, dated 1587, represents the combination of two cartographic schools that existed at the time of its creation. The older one was the traditional school of Majorca, which specialized in decorative portolan maps that by this time were obsolete with regard to the geographic information they conveyed. The newer one was the...- Contributor: Martines, Joan
- Date: 1587-01-01
- Resource: - 19 pages
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MapMap of the Persian Gulf.
Carte Du Golphe Persique This map of the Persian Gulf is by the French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-72). Qatar is shown as Catura. Cities on both the Arabian and Persian sides of the gulf are indicated, and the map shows a river emptying into the gulf at the port of Julfar (present-day Ra's al-Khaymah, United Arab Emirates). The scale is in common leagues, and there are no latitudinal...- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas
- Date: 1763-01-01
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MapMap of the Island of Newfoundland, 1689. This nautical map of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence was drawn in 1689 by the Basque cartographer Pierre Detcheverry at Plaisance (present-day Placentia, Newfoundland, Canada), the French capital of Newfoundland, for Governor Antoine Parat. It contains many place-names in the Basque language and details the many anchorages along the coast between Newfoundland and Tadoussac (present-day Quebec). Along with the Portuguese, the Basques were early...- Contributor: Detcheverry, Pierre
- Date: 1689-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages
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MapMap of the Atlantic Ocean, 1613. This 1613 map of the Atlantic Ocean and of parts of Europe, Africa, and North and South America was made in the French port city of Havre de Grace by Pierre de Vaulx, a cartographer and pilot in the French royal navy. Richly illuminated, the map is in the great tradition of Norman cartography that began in the previous century. The de Vaulx family,...- Contributor: Vaulx, Pierre De, Flourished 17th Century
- Date: 1613-01-01
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MapWorld Map in two Hemispheres (Bonne Projection), 1566. This world map in two hemispheres using the Bonne projection is by the Norman hydrographer Guillaume Le Testu (1509-72). Bonne maps used a modified conical map projection from circa 1500; the parallels appeared as equally spaced concentric arcs of a circle and the maps had a straight vertical central meridian. The Norman school of hydrographers was active in the French maritime province of Normandy,...- Contributor: Le Testu, Guillaume
- Date: 1566-01-01
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MapMap of the North Atlantic Ocean, 1674. From the 1500s to the 1700s, explorers, geographers, and the royal government of France continued the search for a passage that would allow easy communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and better access to the treasures of the East Indies. Spurred by Indian reports, the idea of a special sea north of California emerged in the mid-17th century. Geographers quickly seized upon this...- Contributor: Rotis, Denis De, 17th Century
- Date: 1674-01-01
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MapMap of the Atlantic Ocean, 1601. This portolan map of the Atlantic Ocean, made by Guillaume Levasseur in 1601, reflects the high level of accuracy achieved by French mapmakers of the Norman school of hydrographers, who by this time had been charting the Atlantic for well over a century. The map is also a rich store of historic place-names. For Canada, it provides 28 place-names extracted from the writings of...- Contributor: Levasseur, Guillaume, 1643
- Date: 1601-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages
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MapMap Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan Shores, and also the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, Hormuz, Persia, from Sinda to the Indus River, Khambhat in India and Malabar, ...
Deliniantur in hac tabula, Orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani ; al. Maris Rubri ; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, suprà Sindam usque Fluminis Indi, Cambaiae Indiae & Malabaris, Insulae Ceylon, Choromandeliae, & Orixae, fluvii Gangis, & Regni Bengalae, situs item Sinuum, Insularum, Scopulorum, Pulvinorum, Vadorum, profunditatumque, dictis oris adjacentium, cum genuinis Singulorum locorum Nominibus, prout ab expertissimis navium Gubernatoribus Lusitanicis, indigetantur Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) was a Dutchman whose contributions to cartography were of great significance in breaking the Portuguese monopoly on trade and navigation in the late 16th century and in opening up southern Asia to the Dutch and later the English. As a young man, van Linschoten spent four years in Spain learning a trade. He then made his way to Lisbon,...- Contributor: Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van - Langren, Henricus F. Ab (Henricus Florentius)
- Date: 1596-01-01
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MapMap of the Red Sea from Mocha to Jeddah.
Carte de la Mer Rouge depuis Moka jusqu'à Gedda This large and detailed nautical chart of the southern half of the Red Sea, with depth soundings, rhumb lines, and profiles of the coastal hills, dates from 1775. It includes three map insets with views of Shake Omare, Goofs, and Gedan near the important port of Jeddah. One of its distinctive features is its unusual alignment, with Moka (present-day Mocha, Yemen) shown at top...- Contributor: Après De Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis D
- Date: 1775-01-01
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MapMap of the Arabian Gulf from Basra to Cape Raʼs al-Hadd.
Carte du Golfe Persique: depuis Bassora jusqu'au Cap Rasalgate This French chart of the Arabian Gulf dating from 1775 shows the coasts of the present-day countries of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the coast of northern Oman, and in the northwest, coastal parts of Kuwait, Iran, and Iraq. An inset chart shows the islands of Karak and Korgo and Bundereek Bay (present-day Kharg, Kharku, and Bandar-e Rig). The map has...- Contributor: Après De Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis D - Delahaye, Guillaume-Nicolas
- Date: 1775-01-01
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MapNautical Atlas of Battista Agnese. Battista Agnese (1514-64) was a masterful geographer and mapmaker. Born in Genoa, he worked in Venice from 1536 to 1564 and became one of the most important figures in Renaissance cartography. Researchers differ on the total number of manuscript atlases created by Agnese; he produced at least 39 portolan, or maritime, atlases, ten of them signed and dated. All are distinguished by their neat...- Contributor: Agnese, Battista
- Date: 1541-01-01
- Resource: - 23 pages
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MapPortolan Chart. The first maritime charts were produced at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Their main purpose was to represent with the greatest possible accuracy coastlines and ports, for which reason they were called portolanos. When seafarers ventured out into the open sea, they entered their new discoveries on the charts. A Portuguese law stipulated that every ship had to carry two serviceable...- Date: 1502-01-01
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