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    Map of a route through south west Pennsylvania from Fort Loud... Scale 1:380,160; 6 miles to an in. Title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America, p. 673. Variant title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection ... no. 12: A map of the country on the Ohio & Muskingum Rivers. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the right. Shows location of forts and road improvements. Typed...
    • Date: 1763-01-01
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    [Liang Huai yan chang ji si sheng xing yan tu].
    [兩淮鹽場及四省行鹽圖] | Si sheng xing yan tu | Map of two Huai salt fields and transportation in four provinces     Pictorial map. Covers Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Huguang, Henan in central China,. Shows distribution of salt industry and trade in the four provinces. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. Imperfect: torn at right. "Shanzhou quan tu" on verso. English translation: Map of two Huai salt fields and transporation in four provinces. Available also through the Library of Congress...
    • Contributor: Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William)
    • Date: 1736-01-01
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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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    The New England coasting pilot from Sandy Point of New York, ... Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. The year of publication has not been established conclusively. Cf. Le Gear, Clara Egli. "The New England Coasting pilot of Cyprian Southack." Imago mundi xi (1954): 137-144. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy has title altered with manuscript notation in ink to read: The New England coasting pilot...
    • Contributor: Southack, Cyprian
    • Date: 1734-01-01
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    A map of the British and French dominions in North America, w... Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. Second Dutch ed. Relief shown pictorially. Copy one from the publishers' Atlas nouveau, contenant les parties du mond. [1683-1761] v.9, no. 47-50. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 44 Includes text. Insets: A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late surveys of those coasts.--Plan de la ville de Quebec.--Plan du port et ville de Louisbourg dans...
    • Contributor: Mitchell, John - Cóvens, Jean - Mortier, Corneille
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    Plan of 50 townships to be sold by lottery lying between the ... Scale 1:253,440; 4 miles to 1 in. Hand colored. "NB. All the townships within the red line are ordered for sale by lottery." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 832 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Date: 1700-01-01
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    This plan of the harbour, town, and forts of Porto Bello (tak... Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "Published March 27th, 1740 ..." Oriented with north toward the lower left. Includes index and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 2000-25
    • Contributor: Durell, Philip - Rentone, James
    • Date: 1740-01-01
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    Le Missisipi ou la Louisiane dans l'Amérique septentrionale. Hand colored. Panorama. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Indexed for points of interest. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1; 651/2
    • Contributor: Chereau, Jacques-François
    • Date: 1770-01-01
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    Plan der stad Washington : bestemd tot de hoofdstad van Ameri... Shows proposed government buildings. Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Georgetown. From A. van der Kroe's Vaderlandsche letter-oefeningen waarin boeken en schriften, Amsterdam, 1793. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes latitude/longitude statement. LC copy foxed, fold-lined, laminated, and mounted on cloth backing. Phillips. Washington 1287 DCP
    • Contributor: Kroe, A. Van Der
    • Date: 1793-01-01
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    Plano topografico que comprende la parte septentrional de la ... Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Manuscript label mounted on verso: America. Laguna de Merin. Limites con Portugal. Small brass rings sewed to upper and lower edges. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 119 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Varela Y Ulloa, José
    • Date: 1780-01-01
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    Barbadoes, Scale ca. 1:65,000. Hand colored. LC copy trimmed, sectioned, and mounted on cloth backing. Relief shown by hachures. Shows parish boundaries. Includes 2 island profiles and listing of "The area of each parish in acres." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 2092 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas - Mayo, William
    • Date: 1775-01-01
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    Map of the Ocean Showing the Different Routes of the Navigato...
    Carte de l'Océan où sont tracées les différentes routes des navigateurs au tour du monde     Carte de l'Océan où sont tracées les différentes routes des navigateurs au tour du monde (Map of the ocean showing the different routes of the navigators around the world) was made by the French cartographer Jean-Nicolas Buache (1741-1825) to plan and subsequently chart the discoveries made on the voyage around the world of the French explorer Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse (1741-88). In 1783...
    • Contributor: Buache, Jean-Nicolas - La Pérouse, Jean-François De Galaup, Comte De
    • Date: 1785-01-01
    • Resource: - 4 pages
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    [Maps of Pennsylvania--cities and towns Du--Eastn]
    Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 116 | Pennsylvania title collection--cities and towns Du--Eastn     Most maps before 1800 in this collections are This record covers single maps of Pennsylvania cities and towns, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These maps may...
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    Plano del Lago de Sn. Bernardo en el Seno Mexica no. Watermarks: J. Kool; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Watermark dated as 1792. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 974 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 69. Vault
    • Contributor: Vico, Antonio
    • Date: 1792-01-01
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    A chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic an... Scale ca. 1:20,000,000. Title from sheets 1 and 2. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. Relief shown pictorially. Shows nautical exploration routes. "Published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 19, 1753, by T. Jefferys, ... at the corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross." Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations. Accompanied by J. Green's: Remarks, in support of the...
    • Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas - Green, John
    • Date: 1753-01-01
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    An authentic plan of the River St. Lawrence from Sillery to t... Shows fortifications and military activity in the vicinity of Québec. Includes illustrations and notes. LC copy mounted on cloth backed paper. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Gibson, J. (John)
    • Date: 1759-01-01
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    D. Carolina, nebst einem Theil von Florida. Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Latest date on map: 1716. English. Title in German, historical notes in English and German. From the authors' Atlas geographicvs major. 1753-59 [i.e. 1784; v. 1, 1759] part of v. 1, part 2, no. 85. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Homann Erben (Firm)
    • Date: 1759-01-01
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    A new map of North America, with the West India Islands. Divi... Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. LC copy one annotated in black ink. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 27 Includes historical notes, text, and insets "A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay" and "The passage by land to California, discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino, a Jesuit; between the years 1698 and 1701, before which,...
    • Contributor: Pownall, Thomas - Sayer, Robert
    • Date: 1786-01-01
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    Map of Maryland showing principal buildings, roads, cities an... Relief shown by hachures. Does not cover western Maryland. In left lower margin: Copyright, H. Brooks Price, 1933. Includes col. ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Price, H. Brooks
    • Date: 1794-01-01
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    Plan of the attack the rebels on Long Island, by an officer o... Scale ca. 1:125,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Annotated showing additional names in a different hand. Includes "Explanation." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1147 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650
    • Date: 1776-01-01
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    Matanzas ... puerto situado en la vanda del nortte de la Isla... Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermark: Cluster of grapes[?]. Black and brown inks. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 303 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text and ancillary map of fort. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 228. Vault
    • Contributor: Cumplido, Francisco
    • Date: 1700-01-01
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    Plan of part of the city of Washington, in the vicinity of th... Covers area bounded by 12th, L, 15th streets, and Anacostia River waterfront S.E. Relief shown by hachures. On accompanying fact sheet: Nicholas King journal, Ms. Division L.C. ... order to map ... 1796. King ... prepared the maps on Nov. 21. Pen-and-ink and watercolors. Watermark: 1794 (under fleur-de-lis). Mounted on cloth backing. Accompanied by fact sheet. 1 sheet : ms. ; 61 x 46...
    • Contributor: King, N. (Nicholas)
    • Date: 1796-01-01
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    Plano del Rio Grande de S. Pedro situado en la latitud sur de... Shows southern portion of Patos Lagoon in the region of Rio Grande. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the right. Watermarks: D. & C. Blauw; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Watermarks dated from 1733-1827. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 176 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed. Annotation in...
    • Contributor: Garzia, Pedro
    • Date: 1733-01-01
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    L'Amérique : dressée sur les relations les plus récentes, rec... Scale ca. 1:16,000,000 at the equator. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes notes and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 700/2
    • Contributor: Dubercelle, F. - Nolin, Jean Baptiste
    • Date: 1740-01-01
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    A sketch of the action between the British forces and the Ame... Scale ca. 1:13,800. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Indexed for points of military interest. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 902 Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas - Faden, William
    • Date: 1775-01-01
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    Plano del Puerto de Subec en la Ysla d. Lubson Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Watermarks: D. & C. Blauw; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 725 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 81. Annotated in black ink on verso prior to mounting on cloth...
    • Date: 1766-01-01
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    Map of Bahia.
    Mapa da Bahia     This early-18th century manuscript map by an unknown cartographer shows the interior of the Brazilian state of Bahia, still largely uncharted at that time. The Portuguese began to explore this region as early as 1501, and soon developed it into a center for growing and processing sugar. The sugar was exported from several of Bahia's coastal cities, the most important of which was Salvador.
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    A new map of Switzerland : divided into the thirteen cantons ... Relief shown pictorially. LC copy 1 from: New and elegant imperial sheet atlas..., 1803. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Robert Laurie and James Whittle
    • Date: 1794-01-01
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    Carte des États-Unis de l'Amérique septentrionale, dressée d'... Scale ca. 1:6,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in author's Almanach interessant, 1780. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 740 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651; 700
    • Contributor: Brion De La Tour, Louis - Desnos, Louis-Charles
    • Date: 1780-01-01
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    Partie méridionale de la Martinique. Scale ca. 1:150,000. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "Tome I, no. 93." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 2059 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: [Bellin, Jacques Nicolas] - Croisey, P.
    • Date: 1764-01-01
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    Map of that part of the city of Washington on which is situat... Covers area bounded by E, 7th, C, and 5th streets N.E. Shows block numbers and outlines, buildings, and block and building dimensions. Pen-and-ink on tracing linen. Traced by Dr. Joseph M. Toner from the original map by Nicholas King ca. 1796. Has circular cameo impression: [Profile of head with] Toner Library. Accompanied by lead-pencil ms. tracing (tracing paper) of the original King map: Map...
    • Contributor: King, N. (Nicholas)
    • Date: 1796-01-01
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    The State of Maryland, Scale ca. 1:770,000. Meridians: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially. In upper center margin: Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography improved. LC copy imperfect: Hole in center along fold line. LC copy annotated in pencil with various dates. Includes inset "Continuation of the Potowmac River, from Fort Cumberland." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2:...
    • Contributor: Lewis, Samuel - Guthrie, William - Barker, W. (William) - Carey, Mathew
    • Date: 1795-01-01
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    Travajo personal que en la inspesion de esta corta obra tubo ... Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and legend. Covers the territory from Santa Fé west to the Colorado River and south to the Chihuaha. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In upper right margin: no. 1081. In pencil in lower right hand corner: 1744?
    • Contributor: Menchero, Juan Miguel
    • Date: 1744-01-01
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    Sketch of West Point. Scale ca. 1:20,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink on tracing paper. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications. Based on John Hinncks' West Point. 1783. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1206 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650/1; 651/2
    • Contributor: Hinncks, John
    • Date: 1783-01-01
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    A plan of the harbour and peninsula of Cape Ann in North Amer... Scale ca. 1:53,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Has watermark. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 973 Vault AACR2: 100; 440; 651/1; 650/2
    • Contributor: Holland, Samuel - Mowat, Henry - Auvergne, P. D
    • Date: 1776-01-01
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    The Atlantic Neptune, L.C. copy no. 13, with 65 items. Charts dated 1775 to 1777. The general t.p. of v. 3 is dated MDCCLXXVI (1776), but a second roman numeral "I" following the first has been imperfectly erased on the sheet, indicating that the imprint date was originally MDCCLXXVII (1777). The sectional t.p. to v. 3 includes the reference to Lord Howe. L.C. copy imperfect: Charts of...
    • Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
    • Date: 1777
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    Plano del Puerto de Egmont en la Isla Falklan (llamada avi de... Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: London. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermarks: Crown over the characters GR; and, Pro Patria. Pen-and-ink and red ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 416 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed. Annotated in brown ink in lower left corner: 26. Maggs number annotated in...
    • Contributor: García Ayuante, Juo. Patricio
    • Date: 1770-01-01
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    The United States of North America, with the British & Spanis... Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Imperfect: Creased, soiled, small tears along edges of sheet. Acquisitions control no. 99-83
    • Contributor: Faden, William
    • Date: 1783-01-01
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    To His Royal Highness. George Augustus Frederick. Prince of W... Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows southern United States, Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermudas, and northern South America. Includes acknowledgment dated Jan. 25, 1774 at Plantation Office, Whitehall by John Pownall, secry. On verso: [Plate no.] 45. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1699 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster...
    • Contributor: Speer, Joseph Smith - Bowen, Thomas
    • Date: 1774-01-01
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    Chart, containing the coasts of California, New Albion, and R... Scale ca. 1:16,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. Shows routes of major exploration. In lower right corner: IV. Includes charts of astronomical observations and descriptive and historic text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
    • Date: 1775-01-01
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    A plan of Fort St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Jago & of St. Phili... In lower margin: To his grace Iohn Duke of Montagu, this plan is most humbly dedicated by his graces, most dutifull & most obedient servant, Iohn Thomas. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink and watercolors. Includes index, panoramic view, relief profile, and ill. Insets: A plan of Fort St. Joseph -- A plan of Fort St. Philip -- A plan of Fort St....
    • Contributor: Thomas, John
    • Date: 1741-01-01
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    A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets a... Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in ink on verso: Whiston's Solar System.
    • Contributor: Whiston, William - Senex, John
    • Date: 1720
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    Plano que manifiesta del modo que csta formada la Ysla Santa ... Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermarks: Two decorative shields and indecipherable lettering. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 182 Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 293. Includes note and index. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Date: 1700-01-01
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    Carte de la nouvelle Georgia. Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Prime meridian: Paris. "Tome I, no. 38." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1593 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
    • Date: 1764-01-01
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    Position of the detachment under Lieut't Col'l Baum, at Walms... Scale ca. 1:6,000; 200 paces to an in. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Shows troop positions of battle fought in the town of Hoosick, N.Y. in defense of Bennington, Vt. "Engraved by Wm. Faden, 1780" from manuscript no. 65 in the Library of Congress Faden collection. Includes indexed "References." Second copy of sheet 1: complete set of maps at Faden, William [Maps of...
    • Contributor: Faden, William - Durnford, Desmaretz
    • Date: 1780-01-01
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    Three maps [i.e. map on 3 sheets] of northern New Jersey, wit...
    Three maps of northern New Jersey, with reference to the boundary between New York and New Jersey     Scale ca. 1:180,000. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. Boston, 1862. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Imperfect: Edges torn. Shows roads, county and township boundaries, land grants, the division line between East and West Jersey, 5 different proposed division lines between New Jersey and New York by separate claims...
    • Date: 1769-01-01
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    Carte de la Louisiane et de la Floride. Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris and l'Isle de Fer. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1401 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Bonne, Rigobert
    • Date: 1783-01-01
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    [Mount Desert Island and neighboring coast of Maine Scale ca. 1:49,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows coast of Hancock County, Maine. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
    • Date: 1776
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    Discripción de lo qe. contiene este plano Punta de Araya y su... Shows coast of Venezuela in the region of Araya. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Watermark: IV. Watermark dated from 1668-1812. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 983 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: 189....
    • Date: 1700-01-01
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    A new and accurate map of North America, Scale ca. 1:6,360,000. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. "West longitude from Ferro." Differs from other copies in coloration and in presence of annotation above title "No. 8." Only boundaries are colored. Long Island is colored as being attached to New England. St. John and Isle Royal are colored as being attached to Nova Scotia. Shows area east of Louisiana. LC Maps of North America,...
    • Contributor: Bell, Peter - Seale, Richard William - Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D - Bowles, Carington
    • Date: 1771-01-01
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    Les grandes et petites isles Antilles, et les isles Lucayes a... Scale ca. 1:4,870,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "P.II.50." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1719 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 100; 651; 700
    • Contributor: Robert De Vaugondy, Gilles - Santini, P.
    • Date: 1779-01-01
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    Sketch of part of the road from Freehold to Middle Town shewi... Scale ca. 1:12,000; 400 paces to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by shading. No. 9 shows positions of grenadiers and guns before and after the action. Accompanied by Hills map collection title page and table of contents. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1281 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2:...
    • Contributor: Hills, John - Clinton, Henry
    • Date: 1778-01-01
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    To His Royal Highness. George Augustus Frederick. Prince of W... Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows southern United States, Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermudas, and northern South America. European possessions shown by color. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1700 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes acknowledgement to Captain Speer by "John Pownall, secry., Plantation Office, Whitehall, January...
    • Contributor: Speer, Joseph Smith - Bowen, Thomas
    • Date: 1774-01-01
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    Regni Mexicani seu Novæ Hispaniæ, Ludovicianæ, N. Angliæ, Car... Scale ca. 1:10,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. "Cum privilegio Sac. Caes. Maj." From Homann Erben's Atlas geographicvs maior, 1753-1759 [i.e. 1781; v. 1 1759] v. 1, no. 147. Lowery, 473 Lowery map collection copies differ in coloration of islands in the West Indies. Copy one has a printed annotation mounted on verso. Copy three has pink borders and is annotated in...
    • Contributor: Homann Erben (Firm) - Homann, Johann Baptist
    • Date: 1759-01-01
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    Plan of the city of New York ; An exact prospect of Charlesto... New York City map shows streets, wharves, ferries, principal buildings, and built-up area. Charleston view is panorama of waterfront and quays with principal buildings lettered for identification (no index present). Relief shown by hachures on New York City map. New York City map removed from London Magazine, Sept. 1776; Charleston view removed from London Magazine, 1762. Imperfect: Charleston view ink-stained at upper left. LC...
    • Date: 1762-01-01
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    Map of the District of Villa Rica.
    Mappa da Comarca de Villa Rica / Jose Joaquim da Rocha     This map showing the district of Villa Rica in Brazil's Minas Gerais state is the work of José Joaquim da Rocha (1737?-1807). Rocha was a Brazilian military engineer, painter, and cartographer who contributed works to many important churches and monasteries around Salvador and Minas Gerais. His map shows details of individual comarcas (judicial districts) and parochial districts, and an illustration of an Indian. Rocha...
    • Contributor: Rocha, José Joaquim Da
    • Date: 1779-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    A map of the Province of New-York, reduc'd from the large dra... Scale ca. 1:1,050,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Shows administrative boundaries in New York and New Jersey. Also shows portions of Pennsylvania and New England. Two copies. Copy 1, on 2 sheets and only boundaries colored. Copy 2, sectioned and mounted on cloth backing and colored in. Both copies show the western boundary of Tryon County and the eastern boundaries of Cumberland and...
    • Contributor: Faden, William - Sauthier, Claude Joseph - Ratzer, Bernard
    • Date: 1776-01-01
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    Descripción de la costa de la Luciana y entrada en el Río de ... Scale ca. 1:1,330,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolors. Mounted on cloth backing. Printed label describing the map mounted on verso. Watermarks: IV, fleur-de-lis, and other unidentifiable watermark. Depths shown by soundings. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 828 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, ar161500 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Annotated in black (?) ink on verso prior to mounting...
    • Contributor: Gómez Y Sande, Juan
    • Date: 1787-01-01
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    Plano de la Laguna de Términos en la costa d. Campeche. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermarks: J. Kool; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 563 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 308. Vault
    • Date: 1700-01-01
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    Plano de la ensenada de Lastres situado por observación el ca... Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 794 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index and text. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 90. Vault
    • Contributor: García, Juan Patricio - Puente, Miguel De La
    • Date: 1785-01-01
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    Plan of the city of Washington. Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Georgetown. From Jedidiah Morse's The American geography, 1794, p. 468. "Published by J. Stockdale Piccadilly 16th Sept'r 1794." LC copy mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Phillips. Washington 1292 Vault DCP
    • Contributor: Stockdale, John - Morse, Jedidiah
    • Date: 1794-01-01
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    [Franklin-Folger chart of the Gulf Stream]. Shows the Gulf Stream. Publication authorized by Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger. Gulf Stream information overprinted on: A new and exact chart of Mr. E. Wrights projection, rut. Mercators chart, con. ye sea coast of Europe, Africa & America, from ye Isles of Orkney to Cape Bona Esperance & Hudsons Bay to ye straits of Magellan, according to ye observations of Capt. E. Halley,...
    • Contributor: Moll, Herman - Folger, Timothy - Jno. Mount and Tho. Page - Wright, Edward - Franklin, Benjamin - Halley, Edmond
    • Date: 1768-01-01
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    Nieuwe kaart van het Eyland Sumatra Relief shown pictorially. Also covers Malay Peninsula and adjacent minor islands. Oriented with north to the left. Prime meridian: Ferro [?]. Printed number in upper right corner: N'o 11. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Lightly fold-lined, sheet trimmed. Includes bar scale of "Duytsche Mylen 15 in een Graad."
    • Contributor: Linden, G. Onder De - Valentijn, François - Braam, J. Van
    • Date: 1726-01-01
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    Amérique septentrionale avec les routes, distances en miles, ... Scale 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. Fifth impression of 3d French ed. Relief shown pictorially. Title in French and German. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 51 Includes text and inset "Nouvelle carte de la baye d'Hudson et de Labrador selon les dernieres cartes levées sur les lieux." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Mitchell, John - Hawkins, M. - Le Rouge, Georges-Louis
    • Date: 1777-01-01
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    A new map of South America, shewing it's general divisions, c... Scale ca. 1:23,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in black ink: This is map no. 40 of Wells (Edward) A new sett of maps. fol. London, 1722. "Dedicated to His Highness William Duke of Gloucester." Includes notes. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1
    • Contributor: Cole, B. (Benjamin)
    • Date: 1722-01-01
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    A new map of the states of Pensylvania, New Jersey, New York,... Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for Gordon's History of the American war" -- upper margin. Includes notes, compass and decorative cartouche. LC copy mounted on cloth backed paper. Left margin trimmed, small loss in upper right. Wheat & Brun 1969, 150 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 197 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Tiebout, Cornelius - Gordon, William
    • Date: 1789-01-01
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    A plan of the lands in New London sequestred for the sole use... Cadastral map. Covers northeastern portion of town of Montville, Connecticut. Signed at lower right: Humphry Avery, survr. for the county of New London. Pen-and-ink. Map backed with cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes and text. Imperfect: Scuff marks, tears, and darkening of paper.
    • Contributor: Avery, Humphry
    • Date: 1736-01-01
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    Plan of Amelia Island in East Florida, north point of Amelia ... Scales vary. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Hand colored. From W. Faden's The North American atlas. 1777. Includes notes and "A view of the entrance into St. Mary's River." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1630 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Hole in lower center. Vault AACR2: 100;...
    • Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas - Fuller, William - De Brahm, John Gerar William - Faden, William
    • Date: 1777-01-01
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    Generalis totius imperii Moscovitici : novissima tabula magna... Relief shown pictorially. Scale determined by using graticule method. Early Homann variant of the map by Ides of 1697. Scales: Milliaria Germanica communia; and Werst. [i.e. Versts] sive milliaria Moscovitica. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Ides, Evert Ysbrants - Homann, Johann Baptist
    • Date: 1704-01-01
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    [A plan of the attack of Fort Sulivan, near Charles Town in S... Scale ca. 1:25,500. Title from engraved map published by Faden in 1776. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes inset "Plan of the platform in Sullivan's Fort." Annotated by Lt. Colonel Thos. James of the Rl. Rt. of Artillery, to delete one "l" from "Sullivan's Fort." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789 1544 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
    • Contributor: James, Thomas - Faden, William
    • Date: 1776-01-01
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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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    [Maps of Pennsylvania--counties Was-Wax]
    Pennsylvania title collection--counties Was-Wax | Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 99     Most maps before 1800 in this collection are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps covering counties of Pennsylvania, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps as well as some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These maps...
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    A sketch of the northern parts of New Jersey. Scale 1:126,720; 2 miles to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. Original attributed to B. Morgan and T. Milliadge through table of contents of the collection. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1251 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651; 700/1
    • Contributor: Hills, John - Millidge, Thomas - Morgan, Benjamin
    • Date: 1781-01-01
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    Carta esferica de la costa del Janeiro, que comprende desde l... Shows coast of Rio de Janeiro State between 22⁰15ʹS and 23⁰30ʹS. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. Includes indexed relief profile. Printed annotation describing the map mounted on verso. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 30. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 159 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster...
    • Contributor: J. M. L.
    • Date: 1780-01-01
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    Carte d'une partie des côtes de la Floride et de la Louisiane... Scale ca. 1:1,120,000; echelle de lieues marines de France de 20 au degré. "Longitude occidentale du méridien de Paris." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "No. 1.H." Appears in the author's Neptune Americo-Septentrional. 1778. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1611 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 110; 650/1; 650/2; 650/3; 700/1
    • Contributor: Petit - Sartine, Antoine De - France. Dépôt Des Cartes Et Plans De La Marine
    • Date: 1778-01-01
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    Da Qing wan nian yi tong di li quan tu
    大清萬年一統地理全圖     Da Qing wan nian yi tong di li yuan tu (Complete geographical map of the great Qing dynasty) is a map of China during the Qing dynasty. A typical map of the administrative divisions of China in this period, it is a revised edition, issued between 1796 and 1820, of the map originally drawn by Huang Qianren (1694-1771) in the 32nd year (1767) of...
    • Contributor: Huang, Qianren, Active 18th Century
    • Date: 1796
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Plan of New Orleans the capital of Louisiana Shows houses, streets, and vegetation. Oriented with north to the upper right. "Eng. for the London Mag." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1679 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Benning, R
    • Date: 1761-01-01
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    A new & accurate map of the provinces of North & South Caroli... Scale ca. 1:2,900,000. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 60." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1380 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Bowen, Emanuel
    • Date: 1752-01-01
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    Map of Greenland.
    Grønlandia Antiqua     This map of Greenland is by Hans Poulsen Egede (1686--1758), the Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman and missionary known as the "Apostle of Greenland." Egede made two journeys, in 1723 and in 1724, to explore the west coast of Greenland with the goals of mapping the coastline and obtaining information about the ancient Norse settlements on the island. Egede lived and worked in Greenland from 1721...
    • Contributor: Egede, Hans
    • Date: 1737-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    [Maps of Pennsylvania--cities and towns Canont-Cg]
    Pennsylvania title collection--drawer 110 | Pennsylvania title collection--cities and towns Canont-Cg     Most maps before 1800 are photocopies or facsimiles. This record covers single maps of Pennsylvania cities and towns, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These maps may...
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    Amérique septentrionale. Scale ca. 1:25,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Longitude du méridien de Paris." "31." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 100; 651; 700
    • Contributor: Bonne, Rigobert - André
    • Date: 1788-01-01
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    [Unfinished draught for a topographical map of the northern p... Scale ca. 1:7,500. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. Shows Fort Lee, Fort Washington, Fort Independence, the 8 redoubts built by the British to command Kingsbridge, troop symbols, and the entrenchments on Harlem Heights. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1171 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Date: 1778-01-01
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    A Map of forty miles north, thirty miles west, and twentyfive... Scale ca. 1:320,000. Relief shown pictorially. Includes "References to the harbour and environs of Boston," reflecting points of general interest and military events which occured in 1775, "References to the town of Boston," and inset of "Boston Town." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 903 Vault AACR2
    • Date: 1775-01-01
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    Plan of a rout undertaken in winter, Jany. 26th, from Quebec,... Scale 1:506,880; miles 8 to an in. Manuscript; pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 808 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Montrésor, John
    • Date: 1760-01-01
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    The seat of action, between the British and American forces; ... Scale ca. 1:215,000. Hand colored. Has watermarks. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1146 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Holland, Samuel - Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
    • Date: 1776-01-01
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    Carta plana que contiene el Estrecho de Sonda con una parte d... Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Watermarks: Cross on top of the characters IHS; I. Villedary; and Strasburg fleur-de-lis over the characters LVG. Pen-and-ink and yellow watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 506 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 51. Vault
    • Contributor: Rivelles, Pedro
    • Date: 1771-01-01
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    Atlas général de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Tib...
    Atlas de la Chine     Relief shown pictorially. Text in French. Place names in French and romanized Chinese. "Avec privilège du Roi." Rev. ed. of: Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet. 1737. Revised ed. contains eight additional maps and fourteen plates of cultural and ethnographic interest. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault Acquisitions control no....
    • Contributor: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D
    • Date: 1790-01-01
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    William H. Littlewood map collection The collection consists of nine maps of the Osaka-Kobe area of Japan, one World War II-era map of the United States that includes military insignias, 17 issues of The Geographical Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, and two Swedish government documents. William H. Littlewood, the compiler, was a chief oceanographer with the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office and science attaché with the U.S. Foreign Service.
    • Contributor: Littlewood, William H.
    • Date: 1774
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    L'Amérique septentrionale. Dressée sur les observations de mr... Scale ca. 1:19,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows some routes of exploration, land and sea. Includes "Avertissement." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651; 700/1; 700/2
    • Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - Ottens, J. (Josua) - Ottens, R. (Reinier)
    • Date: 1760-01-01
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    Plan of the city of New York. Scale ca. 1:13,000. Hand colored. Shows ward boundaries. Includes index to buildings. Wheat & Brun. Maps and Charts (1978 ed.) 387 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1113 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1; 651/2; 700
    • Contributor: McComb, John - Tiebout, Cornelius
    • Date: 1789-01-01
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    An accurate map of North America. Describing and distinguishi... Scale ca. 1:550,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Longit. w. from Ferro." Lowery 472 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 22 Includes historical notes, notes on territorial claims, and insets of "A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay" and "The passage by land to California." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 700/1;...
    • Contributor: Gibson, J. (John) - Sayer, Robert - Bowen, Emanuel
    • Date: 1772-01-01
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    [Plat of a survey for William Hughes, Jr. of 460 acres in Fre... Title from Lawrence Martin's The George Washington Atlas. 1932. Survey plot is located either in Hampshire County or Morgan County, W. Va. Handwritten on verso: William Hughes Junr., plat for 460 acres, 1753, deed drawn. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on linen covered cardboard. Accompanied by handwritten surveying notes of April 4, 1750, signed by George Washington. Martin. George Washington atlas, 14a Available also through the Library...
    • Contributor: Washington, George
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    Map of that part of the city of Washington on which is situat... Covers area bounded by 18th, M, 20th, and P streets N.W. Shows buildings, block numbers and outlines, and dimensions. Pen-and-ink on tracing linen. Traced by Dr. Joseph M. Toner from the original map by Nicholas King ca. 1796. Has circular cameo impression: [Profile of head with] Toner Library. Accompanied by lead-pencil ms. tracing (tracing paper) of the original King map: Map of that part...
    • Contributor: King, N. (Nicholas)
    • Date: 1796-01-01
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    [Coast of Maine from Mosquito Head to Spurwink River Scale ca. 1:125,000. LC copy imperfect: Brittle on edges. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 852 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
    • Date: 1776
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    North America drawn from the latest and best authorities. Scale ca. 1:17,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Longitude west from London." Described in Carl I. Wheat's Mapping of the transmississippi west 1957. v. 1, 210. Two copies. Copy 2 has note attached: The history of England, N. Tindal, London, 1789. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651
    • Contributor: Kitchin, Thomas - Terry, Garnet - Harrison, John
    • Date: 1787-01-01
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    Kujang chʻŏnsang yŏlchʻa punya chido.
    舊藏 天象 列次 分野 之圖 | Old Sky Chart Showing Rank and Distribution of Stars     Originally engraved in a stone stele in A.D. 1395. Several Korean scholars studied the chart and estimated the observational epoch of the stars dating between B.C. 1C and A.D. 6C. Changbom Park found that the epoch of the stars in chart is combined from the first and fourteenth centuries. Most stars with declination lower than 50 degrees represent the night sky of the first...
    • Date: 1777-01-01
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    Les Isles Britanniques : ou sont le Royaume d'Angleterre tire... Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De
    • Date: 1700-01-01
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    [Land ownership map of the William Bingham estate in northwes... Relief shown by hachures. From the William Bingham estate maps. Annotated in ink and watercolor to show land ownership. Philadelphia meridian. LC copy stained. LC has label annotated in ink on verso: N.W. Pennsylvania. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no.: 17-82 Vault
    • Contributor: Bingham, William - Adlum, John
    • Date: 1793-01-01
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    A plan of the town and harbour of Louisbourg in the Island of... Relief shown pictorially. Includes index. One of 13 maps in the atlas plate "Particular draughts and plans of some of the principal towns and harbours belonging to the English, French, and Spaniards, in America and West Indies". LC copy mounted on paper. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Bowen, Emanuel
    • Date: 1752-01-01
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    Plan de la position de l'armée françoise autour de Newport et... Scale ca. 1:7,250. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Includes index to fortifications, French army camps, and French naval vessels. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1020 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1
    • Date: 1780-01-01