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  1. Title: Mexico, United States, and Surroundings, 1811 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte du Mexique : et des pays limitrophes situes au nord et a l'est, dressee d'apres la grande cart de la Nouvelle Espagne de Mr. A. de Humbold et d'autres materiaux par J. B. Poirson ; grave par Barriere et l'ecriture par L Aubert. It was published by F. Schoell in 1811. Scale [ca. 1:8,000,000]. Map in French. Covers portion of North America, including the United States from the 42nd parallel south, Mexico, the Caribbean Islands east to Haiti, and portions of Guatamala, Belize, and Honduras. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'World Mercator' projection. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities, indian settlements and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes historical notes. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  2. Title: Ganges River Delta, India and Bangladesh, 1726 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Partie du Gange où sont les etablissements du commerce des nations de l'Europe dans les Indes orientales : cette carte est dressée sur les memoires et observations du Sieur Jacque André Cobbé, envoié aux Indes orientales par MesSieurs de la Compagnie etablie a Anvers. It was published by: Eugene Henrij Friex in 1726. Not drawn to scale. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 World Mercator (EPSG: 3395) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  3. Title: North Coast, Brazil, 1810 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new chart of the north coast of Brazil : shewing the entrances and courses of the rivers Para and Amazon / by Wm. Heather. It was published by William Heather, at the Navigation Warehouse, No. 157, Leadenhall Street on Novr. 7th, 1810. Scale [ca. 1:1,350,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the SAD 69 / Brazil Polyconic projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, soundings, cities and other human settlements, fortifications, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, navigational and geographic notes, and more. Includes also insets: A chart of the entrances to the river Para with the adjacent shoals, from the Portuguese surveys &c. / by John Pedler, Master in the Royal Navy; The channel of Para on an enlarged scale. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  4. Title: A map of America between latitudes 40 and 70 north and longitudes 45 and 180 west exhibiting Mackenzie's track from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan & from thence to the north sea in 1789 & to the west Pacific Ocean in 1793.

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    Summary: ... Published 15 Oct. 1801 ... Relief shown by hachures. From his, "Voyages from Montreal on the river St. Laurence". 1 map: hand col.; 43 x 78 cm.

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  5. Title: Port de Rhode

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    Summary: Depths shown by soundings. In upper right-hand margin: 155. From: Receuil [sic] des principaux plans des ports et rades de la Mer Méditerranée ... Marseille : [s.n.], 1764.

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  6. Title: Caen, France, ca. 1870 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Caen a vol d'oiseau, plan dessine et lithe par Arse. Le Cointe. It was published by Alfred Bouchard ca. 1870. Scale [ca. 1:5,900]. Covers the Caen region, France. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 30N projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, ground cover, canals, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also inset of Beaulieu.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  7. Title: Plan detaillé de la Cité; dedié à Messire Louis Basile de Bernage, Conseiller d'Etat Prevôt des Marchands, et à Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris par M. l'Abbé Delagrive, Geographe ordinaire de la Ville; Bourgoin le jeune scripsit.

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    Summary: Shows individual buildings. Includes ill. of boats. 1 map; 43 x 81 cm.

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  8. Title: Siege of Prague, Czech Republic, 1742 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan des environs de Prague : et des camps des deux armees dedie a Mgr. Le Prince de Soubise, par son tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur le Rouge. It was published by Le Rouge in 1742. Scale [1:20,000]. Covers Prague, Czech Republic. Map in French and Czech. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'European Datum 1950 UTM Zone 33N' coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map.This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortification, ground cover, and more. Shows troop disposition, lines of defense, and other features of military interest related to the Siege of Prague, 1742 during the War of the Austrian Succession. Relief shown by hachures Includes index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  9. Title: Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1778 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper nautical chart entitled: Port de Halifax de la Nouvelle Ecosse : avec les recifs, dangers, bas fonds et sondes, leve par ordre du brigadier general Lawrence, gouverneur de la province, par Morris, premier arpenteur; publie a Londres en 1775. It was published chez le Rouge, rue des Grands Augutins in 1778. Scale [ca. 1:63,360]. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the UTM Zone 20N NAD83 (meters) coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows coastal features such as harbors, inlets, rocks, channels, points, coves, shoals, islands, and more. Includes also selected land features such as drainage, fortifications, and human settlements. Depths are shown by soundings and shading. Includes text. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  10. Title: Newport, Rhode Island, 1782 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la position de l'armee francaise au tour de Newport dans Rhode jsland et du mouillage de l'escadre dans la rade de cette ville. It was published in 1782 Chez le Rouge. Scale [ca. 1:22,200]. Covers the Newport, Rhode Island region including a portion of Narragansett Bay. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 3800). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, selected buildings, American Revolution military fortifications, French army camps, French naval vessels with lines of fire, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes 'legende.' This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  11. Title: Remarques sur la navigation de terre-neuve à New-York afin d'eviter les courrants et les bas-fonds au sud de Nantuckett et du Banc de George

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    Summary: "Based on Timothy Folger's original annotations ... It would appear that [Benjamin] Franklin added little or nothing beyond the red lines which indicated the portion to be reproduced ..."--De Vorsey, L. Pioneer charting of the Gulf Stream, in Imago mundi, 28 (1976), p. 107.

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  12. Title: Theatre de la guerre en Amérique

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.

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  13. Title: La Pensilvanie en trois feuilles : traduite des meilleures cartes anglaises = A map of Pennsylvania exhibiting not only the improved parts of the province, but alfo its extensive frontiers: laid down from actual surveys and chiefly from the late map of W. Scull, published in 1770; and humbly inscribed to the Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Esquires, true and absolute proprietaries & Governors of the Province of Pennsylvania, and the territories thereunto belonging.

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    Summary: Scale approximately 1:427,800.; 1 map: color; 61 x 120 cm Pennsylvania--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles

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  14. Title: Gibraltar : avec les nouveaux ouvrages, faits depuis le dernier siège : les lignes espagnoles levé nouvellement sur les lieux

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Insets: Isle Minorque -- Méditerranée. Indexed for points of interest.

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  15. Title: Isles Moluques

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. In upper right margin: 82. From: Atlas nouveau portatif. A Paris : chez le Rouge, 1748.

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  16. Title: L'etat de la République de Genes tiré des meillieurs cartes d'Italie corrigé sur les lieux = Stato di Genova con altri adiacenti : dedicato all' impareggiabile merito di S.A.S. il signor conte di Sassonia, maresciallo generale delle armate di S.M. Christianissima

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    Summary: Map of the Republic of Genoa. Relief shown pictorially.

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  17. Title: Plan de Tournay: Ville episcopale située sur l'Escaut; à Paris, Chez le Sr. le Rouge ingr. géographe du Roy ruë des Augustins.

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    Summary: Shows military operations during siege of 1745. Show public and outlying buildings, city streets, fortifications, fields, marshes, etc. Relief by hachures. Text written in French. Scale measured in Toises. 1 map: hand col., dissected and mounted on linen; 49 x 58 cm, folded in slipcase 18 x 14 cm.

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  18. Title: Les environs de Londres : à sept lieues à la ronde

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Based on a map published by Homann heirs in 1741, which in turn was based on Thomas Bowles' "A new & correct map of thirty miles round London" of ca. 1740. cf. Darlington and Howgego. Printed maps of London.

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  19. Title: Le cours du Po, du Tanaro, Doria, Sessia, Tessin, Adda, Oglio, et traversants le Piemont, Montferrat, Milanois Mantouan, Parmesan, et Ferrarois

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.

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  20. Title: Le royaume d'Angleterre : divisé en comtez et baronies

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.

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