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    Maps: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights (Preservation, Library of Congress) Maps - Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
    • Date: 1630
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    Venezuela, cum parte Auftrali Novae Andalausiae. Place names in Spanish. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 2 copies; 1 copy as of 07/27/98 Vault
    • Contributor: Hondius, Hendrik
    • Date: 1630-01-01
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    Maps: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights (Preservation, Library of Congress) Maps - Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
    • Date: 1631
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    The Province of Tierra Firme and the New Kingdom of Granada and Popayán.
    Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan
    This map of 1631 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571--1638) shows Central America and the northwestern part of South America, including all or parts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. A Dutch text on the reverse of the map explains the geography of the regions depicted, which encompassed the Spanish viceroyalty of New Granada and the province of Popayán, which took its name from the colonial...
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1631-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    Insulæ Americanæ in oceano septentrionali cum terris adiacentibus Appears in the author's Theatrum orbis terrarum. Text on verso in Latin. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1635-01-01
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    Noua orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum
    Nova orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum
    Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Johannes Kepler's Tabvlae Rudolphinae. Ulm : Johannes Saur, 1627-30. Prime meridian based on the astronomer Tycho Brahe's observatory in Denmark. Map drawn in three parts (left to right): 1 half-hemisphere (15 cm. radius), 1 hemisphere (29 cm. in diameter), and 1 half-hemisphere (15 cm. radius). Shirley, Rodney W. Mapping of the world. 1983, p. 358-9 Bricker, Charles. Landmarks of...
    • Contributor: Walch, J. P. (Johann Philipp) - Kepler, Johannes - Eckebrecht, Philipp
    • Date: 1630-01-01
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    Virginia Relief shown pictorially. This map was issued with but not integral to Historia mundi, and is either inserted or pasted in some copies, appearing in various locations in the text. Phillips, 451 Phillips, 4255 Includes ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 24-85
    • Contributor: Hall, Ralph
    • Date: 1636-01-01
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    An Ancient map of Panama, showing territorial divisions and old cities Shows Isthmus of Panama and northwestern South America. Transferred from the collection of the Canal Zone Library-Museum, 1980. Title typewritten in right margin prior to reproduction. LC copy annotated in pencil, on verso, with Canal Zone Library map checklist number: 113. LC copy imperfect: Dark and difficult to read. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Date: 1631
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    [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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    Maps: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights (Preservation, Library of Congress) Maps - Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
    • Date: 1631
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    Java and Australia.
    Iava Maior e Nuca Antara [Java e Australia]
    This manuscript map of Java and the tip of northern Australia is a copy of an earlier work by the Malaysian-Portuguese cartographer Emanuel Godinho de Eredia (1563-1623). In the 16th century, Portugal sent several expeditions to explore the islands south of Malaysia; it is possible that they gained some knowledge about the geography of Australia from these missions. Some scholars have speculated that the...
    • Contributor: Eredia, Manuel Godinho De
    • Date: 1630-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Taboas geraes de toda a navegação
    Mapas generales originales y universales des todo el orue con los puertos principales y fortalezas de Ambas Indias y una descripcion topographica de la region Austral Magallonica año de 1692
    Relief shown pictorially. Orientation varies. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Preface (4 p.) and last map created and added in 1692 by Don Francisco de Seixas y Lovera. Some staining and acid-transfer throughout. Bound in white paper in 1983. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 8 Phillips, 5931 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Attayde, Jeronimo De - Seixas Y Lovera, Francisco De - Albernaz, João Teixeira
    • Date: 1630-01-01

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    Maps: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights (Preservation, Library of Congress) Maps - Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
    • Date: 1631
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    Maps: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights (Preservation, Library of Congress) Maps - Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
    • Date: 1630
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    [Maps of Maine--cities and towns Portland subjects A-Z]
    Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection drawer 61 | Alternate supplied title: Maine title collection--cities and towns Portland subjects A-Z | Maine title collection drawer 61 | Maine title collection--cities and towns Portland subjects A-Z
    Title supplied by cataloger. This record covers single maps of Portland, Maine, showing various subjects, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and may also include photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps as well as some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. To request a specific...

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    Caert vande Svydt Rivier in Niew Nederland. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the region of the Delaware Bay and river, natural features, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the third volume has binder's title...
    • Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
    • Date: 1639-01-01
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    Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.
    • Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
    • Date: 1495

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    Hand-Drawn Maps and Plans of Recife in Pernambuco, All Saints' Bay, and the Coast from Bahia to Gãmam....
    Desenho e plantas iluminadas do Recife de Pernambuco, da Bahia de Todos os Stos., da Costa do mâr e Barra da Bahia athé a do Gãmam
    This six-leaved, hand-drawn atlas shows the coastal area of Brazil's Pernambuco and Bahia states as they appeared in the early 1630s. The maps include details of the city of Recife and All Saints' Bay, as well as details of the coastline. The area was first settled by the Portuguese in 1534, and Pernambuco was one of Portugal's only profitable Brazilian colonies during the early...
    • Contributor: Tinoco, Pedro Nunes, 1641
    • Date: 1631-01-01
    • Resource: - 6 pages

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    Pascaert van Nieuw Nederlandt Virginia, ende Nieuw-Engelandt verthonendt alles wat van die landin by See, oft by land is ondect oft Bekent. Shows northeast coast of the United States from New England to Virginia including coastal features and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the second volume has binder's title "Manuscript maps Atlantic...
    • Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
    • Date: 1639-01-01
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    Huang Ming zhi fang di tu
    皇明職方地圖
    The author of this work was Chen Zushou (died 1637), a late-Ming literary author. A native of Yanling (present-day Changzhou, Jiangsu Province), Chen Zushou received his jin shi degree in 1634 and became, in the following year, an official at the Bureau of Operations, one of the four bureaus in the Ministry of War. In 1636, while working at the ministry, he wrote this...
    • Contributor: Chen, Zushou, 1637
    • Date: 1636
    • Resource: - 102 pages

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    A Most Accurate Picture of Brazil.
    Accuratissima Brasiliae tabula
    This early map showing Bahia state in Brazil is the work of Henricus Hondius (died 1638), a member of a famous Dutch mapmaking family. His father, Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), acquired the plates for Gerard Mercator's Atlas in 1604, and in 1606 published a new edition of this work. Henricus and his brother-in-law, Jan Jannson (died 1664), published the Novus Atlas (New atlas) in 1637....
    • Contributor: Hondius, Hendrik
    • Date: 1630-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    [Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida]. Shows coastal features, Native American nations and settlements, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the second volume has binder's title "Manuscript maps Atlantic Coast and California drawn by Joan Vingboons...
    • Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
    • Date: 1639-01-01
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    [Map of the Peninsula of Florida]. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the Peninsula of Florida and adjacent islands from Rio de las Flores and includes coastline, coastal features, and pictorial representation of palm trees along the Atlantic Coast near St. Augustine with most of geographic names in Spanish. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Described in Terrae incognitae,...
    • Contributor: Vinckeboons, Joan
    • Date: 1639-01-01
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    Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula
    Briefve declaration de la division, forme & singularitez du monde
    Includes two ancillary celestial hemispheres, notes, and illustrations. LC copy has text in French on three sheets framing the map on right, left, and lower margins. This text was published by Jean le Clerc, and does not seem to be directly related to the map. The entire composite sheet is mounted on cloth. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 341 Map in Latin. Text...
    • Contributor: Le Roy, Henri - Lochom, Michel Van - Le Clerc, Jean - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1636-01-01
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    Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north towards the right. Includes two views "Modus muniendi apud Mahikanenses" and illustrations including an illustrated cartouche. No text on verso. LC copy trimmed to outer neat line and mounted on paper. Lightly hand colored in green only. Stamped on verso: 7610. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Place names in Latin...
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1630-01-01