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  1. Title: Brussels, Belgium, 1839 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de Bruxelles et des faubourgs : indiquant tous les edifices de cette villes, les bureaux, les messageries, les hotels, et generalement tous les renseignemens qui peuvent etre utiles a l'habitant et a l'etranger qui les visitent. It was published by H. Gerard in 1839. Scale [ca. 1:9,300]. Covers Brussels, Belgium. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Belgian Lambert 1972 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, parks, and more. 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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  2. Title: Nova tabula terrarum Cucan, Canara, Malabaria, Madura & Coromandelia, 1720-1728 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova tabula terrarum Cucan, Canara, Malabaria, Madura & Coromandelia : cum parte septentrionali insulae Ceylon in mari Indico orientali. It was published by: By Gerard van Keulen met previlegie between 1720 and 1728. Scale [ca. 1:1,900,000].. Map in Latin. Map in multiple languages. 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: South India and Sri Lanka, 1710-1720 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova tabula terrarum Cucan, Canara, Malabaria, Madura & Coromandelia : cum parte septentrionali insulae Ceylon in mari Indico orientali. It was published by Gerard van Keulen met previlegie between 1710 and 1720. Scale ca. 1:1,900,000. Map in Latin. Map in multiple languages. 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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  4. Title: Nova tabula terrarum Cucan, Canara, Malabaria, Madura & Coromandelia, ca. 1704 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova tabula terrarum Cucan, Canara, Malabaria, Madura & Coromandelia : cum parte septentrionali insulae Ceylon in mari Indico orientali. It was published by: By Gerard van Keulen met previlegie ca. 1704. Scale [ca. 1:1,900,000].. Map in Latin. Map in multiple languages. 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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  5. Title: Nieuwe afteekening van het eyland Minorca, geleegen in de Middellandsche Zee, ca. 1726 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nieuwe afteekening van het eyland Minorca, geleegen in de Middellandsche Zee. It was published by: Gerard van Keulen, met Previlegie ca. 1726. Scale not given.. Map in Dutch. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 UTM Zone 31N (EPSG: 32631) 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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  6. Title: Enkhuizen, Netherlands, 1734 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nieuwe afteekening van alle de banken, canaalen, tonnen en dieptens : geleegen voor de stad Enkhuysen in de Zuyder Zee, waar in aengeweesen word, hoedanig men, uyt de stad nae de vuur toren door het Voor Land gevoeglyk kan maken een nieuwe zee haven, getekent door Ian Belkmeer. It was published by Joannes van Keulen in 1734. Scale [ca. 1:9,630]. Covers Enkhuizen, Netherlands. Map in Dutch.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the RD_New (Rijksdriehoekstelsel), GCS Amersfoort 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, shoreline features, and more. Depths shown by soundings and shading. Includes inset: 'Verbeelding van de mond van de Nieuwe Haven'.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: Malta, ca. 1716 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nieuwe afteekening van de eylanden van Gozo en Melite of Malta : met desselfs haven, stad, kasteelen en sterktens, geleegen in de Middelandsche Zee. It was published by Gerard van Keulen, boek en zee kaert verkooper, and de Nieuwen brug, met previlegie, ca. 1716. Scale [ca. 1:62,000]. Map in Dutch. Covers Malta.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic 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, roads, cities and other human settlements, built-up areas, fortification, shoreline features, harbors, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also index and three insets: map of the harbor of Valletta, 'Gesigt van t' inkoomen van de haven van Malta', and 'Gesigt van Capo La Marza aen de Golf van Malia in Sicilia'.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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  8. Title: Pascaert van't eylandt Ceylon, voordelen Taprobana : by de inwoonders genaemt Sankaun

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:750,000. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Probable atlas plate with central fold line. Not numbered. Includes col. ill. of ships at sea and of figures in title cartouche. 51 x 60 centimeters Scale approximately 1:750,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  9. Title: Insulae Javae pars Occidentalis edente Hadriano relando : Insulae Javae pars Orientalis edente Hadriano relando

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    Summary: Map of Java with relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by bathymetric soundings. From vol. 6 of: De nieuwe groote ligtende zee-fakkel ... / door Gerard van Keulen. T'Amsterdam : Joannes van Keulen, 1753-1781. In lower left margin: Hic sedet & domitis Leo Belgicus imperat Indis .... Quam longe hunc Batavi post sua terga vident? First state, without the panoramic view of Jakarta present in the 1728 ed.

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  10. Title: Carte de la Nouvelle France ou se voit le cours des grandes rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi aujour d'hui S. Louis...; J. Kayser, sculp.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. From his De Groote nieuve vermeerderde zee-atlas, ofte Waterwaereld. T'Amsterdam, By Gerard van Keulen [1720] no. [82]; see Phillips no. 5693 and Keoman v. 4, Keu 31, p. 301; Keu 113B p. 351 and p. 387. Includes insets of the Gulf of Mexico coast and of the Mississippi River delta. 1 map: col.; 57 x 97 cm

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  11. Title: Wassende graade Kaart van alle bekende zeekusten op den geheelen aardbodem: door voogt geogmetra; by Johannes van Keulen.

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    Summary: Prime meridian: [Ferro]. 1 map: col.; 51 x 60 cm.

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  12. Title: Nouvelle carte des decouvertes faites par des vaisseaux russiens aux côtes inconnues de l'Amerique septentrionale avec les pais adiacents : dressée sur des memoires authentiques de ceux qui ont assisté a ces decouvertes, et sur d'autres connoissances

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially, and with form lines on coasts. "P.I. no. 53 lllme." Shows routes of Captains Bering and "Tschirikow" through Siberia and across the North Pacific to North America, including Alaska, with revisions of the NW coast of America (on earlier eds., Alaskan coast was overextended by 30⁰), and of the Aleutian Islands; interior of North America vague. Attributed to G.F. Miller. This ed. includes revisions of the NW coast of America, and of the Aleutian Islands. Prime meridian from ed. published London : Robt. Sayer, 1775: Ferro. Coordinates on map: E90⁰--W320⁰/N80⁰--N40⁰.

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  13. Title: Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia, Lecestria, Rutlandia, et Norfolcia

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Verso: French text, p. 137-140, 2M. Appears in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Amsterdam : H. Hondius, 1628 or 1633.

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  14. Title: Cornubia, Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Penbrok, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia & Wigornia

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Cum priuilegio." French text on verso with caption title: La cinquiesme table d'Angleterre; p. 133-136, signature Ll. Appears in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Amsterdam : H. Hondius, 1628 or 1633.

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  15. Title: Central Europe Region, ca. 1816 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Deutschland und der groste Theil der umliegenden Staaten : oder Mittel-Europa in 35 Blattern : nach astronomischen Ortsbestimmungen und den besten Special-Karten, mit Rucksicht auf die neuesten Grenz-Bestimmungen entworfen, zufolge der Wiener Congress-Akte, des Pariser Friedens vom 21ten Nov. 1815, und der neuesten Austauschungen 1816, von H.H. Gotthold ; geschrieben und gestochen von H. Kliewer ; samtliche Geburge im Atlas sind gezeichnet und gestochen von Paulus Schmidt, so wie auch die Sectionen 3,11,16,18,19,21,25,26,31 von demselben gestochen worden. It was published by Simon Schropp & Co., ca. 1816. Scale [ca. 1:1,100,000]. Covers the Central Europe region. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic 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, cities and other human settlements, roads, ground cover, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by shading. Includes also inset index 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 originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  16. Title: Road map of Northeastern Indiana

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    Summary: Blue line. Scale approximately 1:200,000.

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  17. Title: Map of the action at Drainsville, Va., December 20th 1861. U.S. forces commanded by Brig Gen. E.O.C. Ord.

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    Summary: Scale not given; 1 map: color; 40 x 26 cm Dranesville (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps

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  18. Title: Mediterranean Sea, ca. 1700 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: La mer Mediterranée divisée en ses principales parties ou mers, par G. Valck. It was published by G. Valck, sur le Dam ca. 1700. Scale [ca. 1:6,250,000]. 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 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, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. 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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  19. Title: Mediterranean Sea, ca. 1695 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Mare Mediterraneum, exhibens oras Hispaniæ, Galliæ, Italiæ, mare Hadriaticum, archipelagus, Natoliam, Ægyptum, Levantam, Barcam, Tripolin, Tunetanum, Algeriam, Fezzam, Maurocum : quibus accedunt insulæ Majorca, Minorca, Ebusa, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicilia, Candia, et Cyprus. It was published by Gerard and Leonard Valk, cum Privilegio ca. 1695. Scale [ca. 1:36,000,000]. 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 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, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. 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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  20. Title: Mediterranean Sea, ca. 1690 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: La mer Mediterranée divisée en ses principales parties ou mers, par G. Valck. It was published by G. Valck, sur le Dam ca. 1690. Scale [ca. 1:6,250,000]. 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 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, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also ornamental cartouche with mythological figures. 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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