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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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MapCarte de l'Amerique : corrigeé, et augmenteé, dessus toutes les aultres cy devant.
Carte de l'Ameriqve : Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Carte generale de France et de ses nouuelles acquisitions. Paris, 1661. Includes inset of the north pole region, inset of the south pole region, text in margin surrounding map, and ill. Vertically fold-lined at center. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: Richard B. Arkway/Cohen & Taliaferro Acquisitions control no....- Contributor: Berey, Nicolas
- Date: 1661
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Map[Maps of landholdings in the part of Prince George's County (Md.) that is now central Washington D.C.] Shows landholdings as of the 1790's. Depths shown by soundings. Title devised by cataloger. Manuscript--lead pencil tracings. Oriented with north to the right. Includes text and notes. LC copy lacks sections in center and along edges; mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Phillips. Washington 464 Vault DCP
- Contributor: Beatty, Chas. (Charles) - Orme, Arch. (Archibald)
- Date: 1667
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Map[Globus terrarum] Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 16.3 cm. globe. Title supplied by cataloger. Includes watermark. Includes ill. LC copy: Pencil annotations across bottom. LC copy imperfect: Central horizontal and vertical fold lines. Liquid staining on upper and lower right and left. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no.: 2004-3
- Contributor: Blacus, G. I. - Jollain, Gérard
- Date: 1666
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MapNeue Land Tafel von Hungarn : und dessenincorporirten Königreichen und Provinzen Map of Hungary and adjacent parts of the Danube River Valley showing populated places occupied by the Turkish invaders and places remaining Christian (unoccupied). Covers the Danube River Valley from Vienna (upstream) to the entrance of the Aluta (Olt) River (downstream). Relief shown pictorially. Title, notes, directories, and principal place-names in German. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined (vertically), paper-taped on verso. Includes text, notes, historical...
- Contributor: Sandrart, Jakob Von
- Date: 1664
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MapPlano del pt. de Valparayzo cituado en la costa de Chile en 33 gs. de latd. S y en 298 gs. y 40 ms. de longd. nordestea La Agula 10 gs. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Watermark: IV. Watermark dated from 1668-1812. Pen-and-ink and red ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 243 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 20. Vault
- Contributor: Pérez, Pedro
- Date: 1668
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MapAmericæ descriptio nova Relief shown pictorially. From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Appears in Peter Heylyn's Cosmography in four books, 1670. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Another copy filed in Rare Book Roon, G114.H62. Acquisitions control no. 20-82 Vault
- Contributor: Trevethen, William - Chetwind, Philip - Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius)
- Date: 1660
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CollectionMilitary Battles and Campaigns This category contains maps showing campaigns of major military conflicts including troop movements, defensive structures and groundworks, roads to and from sites of military engagements, campsites, and local buildings, topography and vegetation. Some of the maps are manuscripts drawn on the field of battle, while others are engraved including some that have manuscript annotations reflecting the history of the battle or campaign. A significant...
- Date: 1570
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MapKorte beschryvinge van de landschappen des werelts enz. Scales vary. Title from leather label on cover. Label has monogram E. B. de V., surmounted by a crown. Maps, not dated, intended to be bound in a Bible, but assembled in a modern half Morocco binding. The maps have privileges, not dated, for 15 years, granted to N. Visscher by the states of Holland and West Friesland. Maps 3, 4, and [5] each...
- Contributor: Visscher, Nicolaes - Visscher, Claes Jansz - Broeck, Abraham Van Den
- Date: 1660
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CollectionCities and Towns This category includes maps that depict individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas. These maps record the evolution of cities illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems.
- Date: 1500
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MapA mapp of Virginia discovered to ye hills, and in it's latt. from 35 deg. & 1/2 neer Florida to 41 deg. bounds of New England Relief shown pictorially. Based on a manuscript map drawn by John Farrer. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, portrait of Sir Frances Drake, and ill. Vault
- Contributor: Ferrar, John - Farrer, Virginia - Goddard, John - Overton, John
- Date: 1667
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MapAmericæ nova descriptio
Americae nova descriptio Relief shown pictorially. A re-engraved version of a map previously published for Henri Seile in 1652 under the title "Americae descriptio nova" and subsequently re-published from the same engraving as the 1652 map for Phillippi Chetwood in 1666. Appears in Peter Heylyn's "Cosmography in four books", 1677. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault- Contributor: Seile, Anne - Vaughan, Robert
- Date: 1663
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MapLa carte générale du monde Relief shown pictorially. Includes text, 2 celestial hemispheres, 3 compasses, and latitudinal sphere. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 26-86 Vault
- Contributor: Duval, P. (Pierre) - Berey, Nicolas
- Date: 1661
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MapNova Persiæ, Armeniæ, Natoliæ, et Arabiæ
Nova Persiae, Armeniae, Natoliae, et Arabiae Relief shown pictorially. "Gemeene Duytsche mylen van 15 in een graedt." Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Wit, Frederik De.
- Date: 1666
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MapWest-Indische paskaert waer in de graden der breedde over weder zijden vande middellijn wassende so vergrooten dat die geproportioneert sijn tegen hunne nevenstaende graden der lengde. vertonende behalve Europaes zuydelijcste alle de ... Shows the west coast of North America from Belle Isle, Newfoundland, both coasts of South America, mediterranean Europe, and the east coast of Africa. Includes illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Goos, Pieter
- Date: 1660
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CollectionFinding 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. Like our ancestors, we look up at the heavens and wonder. What is the structure of the universe? How significant are we? Are we...
- Contributor: Sagan, Carl - Druyan, Ann - Macfarlane, Seth
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MapNova totivs Americæ descriptio.
Nova totius Americæ descriptio Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault- Contributor: Wit, Frederik De.
- Date: 1660
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MapNova totius terrarum orbis tabula Relief shown pictorially. Includes col. ill. Insets: Polus arcticus -- Polus antarcticus -- Polus septentrionalis -- Systema mundi juxtamentem Claudii Ptolemaei Alexand -- Genuinum mundi systema secundum N. Copernici hypothesin -- Polus meridionalis. Mounted on cloth. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined vertically in half. Pin holes in cloth tape in all corners. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Wit, Frederik De.
- Date: 1660
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MapDescription de la Nouvelle France, ou, sont remarquées les diverses habitations des françois, despuis la première descouverte jusques à present, receuillie et dressée sur diverses relations modernes. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 8-85B Vault
- Date: 1660
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Map[Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula]. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. ill. in margins. Vault
- Contributor: Blaeu, Joan
- Date: 1664
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MapPartie meridio. le du royaume d'Irlande, ou sont la province de Mounster, et partie des prov.ces [sic] de Leinster, et Connaugh. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas - Mariette, Pierre-Jean
- Date: 1665
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MapPartie septentr, le du royaume d'Irlande, ou sont la province d'Ulster, et partie des prov.ces [sic] de Leinster, et Connaugh. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas - Mariette, Pierre-Jean
- Date: 1665
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Map[Three maps of the cosmological systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Brahe]. Title supplied by cataloger. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy assembled from three separate maps, trimmed and mounted on sheet. LC copy imperfect: loss in center of lower margin of Copernican map.
- Contributor: Fer, Nicolas De
- Date: 1669
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MapMappe-monde, ou carte generale du globe terrestre : representée en deux plan-hemispheres : reveiie et changée en plusieurs endroits suivant les relations les plus recentes Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island. LC copy: left half mounted on paper, fold lined. Lightly hand colored to mark continental boundaries and some place names. Shirley, Rodney W. Mapping of the world. 1983, 419 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas - Mariette, Pierre
- Date: 1669
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MapLe Canada faict par le Sr. de Champlain, ou, sont, La Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Nouvelle Holande, la Nouvelle Svede, la Virginie &c. avec les nations voisines et autres terres ... Relief shown pictorially. Indexed. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 34-86 Vault
- Contributor: Duval, P. (Pierre)
- Date: 1664
