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  1. Title: Carte de l'Afrique: corrigeé et augmentée dessus toutes les autres cy devant faictes l'anneé.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. From Pierre Mariette's "Theatre geographique de France contenant les cartes particulieres de ses provinces". 1 map; 38 x 50 cm

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  2. Title: Carte de l'Asie

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:27,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. From Tassin's Cartes geáneárales de toutes les prouinces de France, 1640-1643. In lower right corner:"Cornelis Danckertz schulpsit." 37 x 49 centimeters Scale approximately 1:27,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  3. Title: Carte de l'Amerique : corrigée et augmentée, dessus toutes les aultres cy deuant

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. State 1 according to Burden. Includes ill, text, and insets of Greenland area and Antarctica.

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  4. Title: Descriptio terræ subaustralis

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    Summary: From: P. Bertii tabularum geographicarum contractarum, 1616, p. 82. On verso: Latin text, entitled: P. Bertii tabularum geographicarum contractarum. Liber tertius, in quo terra subaustralis. Hemispherical map centred on the South Pole. "Shows 'Magallanica sive Terra Australis Incognita' practically joined to New Guinea, with Beach Provincia, Psittacorum Regio, Promontorium terrae australis and Terra del fuogo all joined together in one vast continent"--Tooley.

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  5. Title: Rhodi

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. In upper margin: 't Eyland Rhodus. 559. Text in Dutch on verso with title: Beschryvinghe van't Eijland Rhodus. Probably issued in: P. Bertij Tabularum geographicarum contractarum ... Amsterodami : J. Hondius, 1616.

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  6. Title: Typus orbis terrarum Domini est terra et plenitudo eius

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    Summary: Title in upper margin: Descriptio orbis nostra. Text on verso: Comparatio operis praesentis cum Ptolemaico ... From: Petri Berti Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri septem.

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  7. Title: Nova Guinea et ins. Salomonis

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    Summary: Map of New Guinea and Solomons. In Latin. At head of map: Descriptio Novæ Guineæ &c. Pg. 88 from: P. Bertij Tabularum geographicarum contractarum. Amsterodami : I. Hondij, 1616. Includes text on verso: Descriptio Terrae Subaustralis.

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  8. Title: Arachan & Pegv.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:12,000,000 (E 92°20'00"--E 101°20'00"/N 25°30'00"--N 12°30'00"). Relief shown pictorially. On verso: French text, entitled: Description de Bengala. Oriented with north to the left. Page number in upper left: 734. Likely from: Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri septem / Petrus Bertius. 1602. 9 x 13 centimeters Scale 1:12,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  9. Title: Brasilia

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    Summary: In upper margin: Descriptio Brasiliæ. Latin text on verso with caption title: Descriptio Americæ Australis, p. 603. Probably issued in: P. Bertii Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quinque. Amstelodami, : apud Cornelium Nicolai, anno 1602 ; veneunt autem Arnhemij apud Ioannem Ioannis.

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  10. Title: Fretum Magellanicum

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. In upper margin: Strate van Magellanes. 753. Text in Dutch on verso with title: Beschryvinghe vande Strate van Magellanes. From: P. Bertij Tabularum geographicarum contractarum ... Editio secunda. Amstelodami : Apud Cornelium Nicolai, Anno 1602.

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  11. Title: General Charta Öfwer Stockholm med malmarne āhr 1733

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale indeterminable. Relief shown by landforms and pictorially. Includes index. 1 map : color ; 68 x 83 centimeters + text (2 pages ; 26 centimeters) Scale not given. General Map Collection

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  12. Title: Poland and Germany, ca. 1720 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Ducatus in Silesia Inferiore Olsnensis novissima delineatio Wratislaviae. It was published by: Impensis Petri Schenk jun ca. 1720. Scale approximately 1:220,000. Map in Latin. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) 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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  13. Title: Eastern Europe, 1734 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: La Pologne : dressée sur ce qu'en ont donée Starovolsk, Beauplan, Hartnoch, et autres auteurs, rectifiee par les observations d'Hevelius, etc. It was published by: Chez Pierre Schenk in 1734. Scale approximately 1:2,550,000. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) 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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  14. Title: Ins. Ceilan quae incolis Tenarisin dicitur

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:970,000 (E 79°22'00"--E 82°04'00"/N 10°02'00"--N 5°43'00"). Map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with relief shown pictorially. Oritented with north to the left."Ceilan hujus insulae descri ptionem aè Cypriano Sanchez cosmographo Hispano deline ; atam, huic nostro operi inse: rendam, dedit Clarissimus vir Petrus Plancius." From: Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura / Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius. Amsterdam : Jodocus Hondius. French text on verso: L'Isle de Zeilan, ov Ceilon (2 pages). Page numbers on verso: 685 and 688. In Latin and French. 33 x 48 centimeters Scale approximately 1:970,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  15. Title: Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus

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    Summary: Engraved by Jan van Doetecam. Double hemispherical map of the world, with 2 smaller celestial hemispheres. New Guinea shown as part of southern continent called Magallanica.The two hemispheres are surrounded by representations of Europa, Asia, Mexicana, Peruana, Africa, and Magallanica.

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  16. Title: Carta da navegar de Nicolo et Antonio Zeni furono in Tramontana lano M.CCC.LXXX

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    Summary: Carbon facsimile of the Zeno Map, of doubtful authenticity, published in 1558. Relief shown pictorially. Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and fictional or mislabeled islands of Frisland, Estland, and Icaria and landmasses of Tramontana, Crolandia, Estotiland, and Drogeo are shown. Map shows latitude in degrees and lines of longitude. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 43 (1873), pp. 156-206; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v. 43 1873

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  17. Title: Austria Archiducatus; Auctore Wolfgango Lazio; Amstelodami Joannes Janssonius Excudit.; Avstria Archidvcatvs

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. The title cartouche includes a coat of arms topped with a crown and two eagle heads with each holding a flowering vine in their beak. From "Atlantis maioris appendix", Johannes Janssonius, 1630. 1 map; 35 x 49 cm

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  18. Title: Africa nuova tavola

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    Summary: Detached from La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo, Alessandrino, and based on a 1548 edition by Giacomo Gastaldi. Map coverage: Central and Southern Africa. Relief shown pictorially.

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  19. Title: [Map of the country from Gulf of Venice - Belgrade - to Black Sea, the eastern sheet marked] MDLX [1560]

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    Summary: Shows the Gulf of Venice and the Adriatic coast from Venice to Croatia. Relief shown pictorially. Title and imprint from Tooley. Historic Maps copy imperfect: western sheet only.

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  20. Title: Calecut nuova tavola

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    Summary: Map of southern India and the Maldives. Relief shown pictorially. From: La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino / nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano da Ieronimo Ruscelli ... In Venetia : Appresso Giordano Ziletti, 1564.

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