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  1. Title: L'Amerique Septentrionale: dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie royale des sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens; par G. de L'Isle, geographe; N. Guerard, im. et fec.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege du Roy pour 20 ans." Fourth state of first ed. according to Burden, includes the phrase, "Se trouve a Amsterdam chez L. Renard Libraire prz [sic] de la Bourse". Includes "Avertissement and decorative cartouche." 1 map: hand col.; 43 x 61 cm.

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  2. Title: L'Amerique Septentrionale dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie royale des sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens; par G. de L'Isle, geographe; N. Guerard, im. et fec.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege du Roy pour 20 ans." Second state of first ed. according to The Map Collector, 26:2-6. 1st State has Mississippi River entering Gulf near Galveston. Includes "Avertissement and decorative cartouche." 1 map: hand col.; 43 x 61 cm.

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  3. Title: Accuratissima Europae tabula, multis locis correcta, et nuperrimè edita, ca. 1705 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Accuratissima Europae tabula, multis locis correcta, et nuperrimè edita. It was published ca. 1705. Scale ca. 1:9,166,667. 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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  4. Title: L'Isle de Ré avec ses environs, 1721-1778 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: L'Isle de Ré avec ses environs : où est representé le bombardement de St. Martin, et d'Olone, par l'armée navalle de Sa Majesté britannique, le 15 & 16. juillet 1696 : avec privilege de Nosseigneuers les Estats de Hollande et de Westfrise. It was published by: chez Cóvens & Mortier between 1721 and 1778. Scale approximately 1:80,000. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 UTM Zone 30N (EPSG: 32630) 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: Les Basses Sevennes, dans le Languedoc; ou le diocese de Montpellier, 1703- (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Les Basses Sevennes, dans le Languedoc; ou le diocese de Montpellier : divisé en neuf archiprêtrez = De Neder Sevennes, in Languedoc, of 't bisdom van Montpellier : verdeeld in IX aartspriesterdommen : avec privilege. It was published by: by Carel Allard, op den Dam between 1703 and . Scale approximately 1:175,000. Map in French. 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: Great Britain, ca. 1706 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Regnorum Magnae Britanniae, sive Angliae, Scotiae[que] nec non Hiberniae nuperrima delineatio, geographica constructa et in lucem edita a Carolo Allard, Amstelo Batavo. It was published by Carolus Allard, op den Dam ca. 1706. Scale [ca. 1:2,100,000]. Map in Latin. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'British National Grid' 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 inset: Insulae Orcades = Orkney Isles. Decorative cartouche with coat of arms of Great Britain and putti. 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: Indiae orientalis nec non insularum adiacentium nova descriptio

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:150,000. Relief shown pictorially."Cum privilegio ordinum Hollandia et Westfrisiæ." From: Atlas minor : seu universi terrarum orbis geographicum compendium recentiffimas, & a. / Carolus Allard. Amstelodami : ex officinaô Caroli Allard, [1696?]. 47 x 57 centimeters Scale approximately 1:150,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  8. Title: Recentissima novi orbis sive Americae septentrionalis et meridionalis tabula; ex officina Caroli Allard, cum privilegio ordinum Hollandiae et Westfrisiae; Ph. Tideman, del.; G. v. Gouwen, sculp.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Inset of New Zealand. Decorative cartouche showing native woman adorned in gold jewelry, native man with a bowl of gold nuggets, and various animals. 1 map: hand col., mounted on cloth; 49 x 58 cm.

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  9. Title: Exactissima Asiae delineatio, in praecipuas regiones, caeterasq[ue] partes divisa, et denuò in lucem edita

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Scale determined by using graticule method, measured at 30⁰ north. "Extracta ex authenticis tabulis D. Nicolai Witsen ..."

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  10. Title: Recentissima novi orbis, sive, Americæ Septentrionalis et Meridionalis tabula

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Cartouche drawn by: Ph. Tideman. Cartouche engraved by: G. v. Gouwen. Inset shows part of Van Diemans Land. A later state of the ca. 1685 issue with more detailed inset.

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  11. Title: Comitatus Zelandiæ accurata & novissima delineatia

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.

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  12. Title: Nouvelle carte de l'Afrique: avec des remarques et des tables pour trouver sans peine les differents peuples de cette partie du monde par les renvois alphabetiques suivant les plus nouvelles observations de messieurs de l'Academie des sciences.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes tables and notes. Pencilled attribution on verso: Chatelain, 1719. MiU "Tom.1. No.4." 1 map: hand col.; 44 x 46 cm

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  13. Title: Paris Meridian Survey, France, ca. 1720 (Image 1 of 4) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte des provinces de France traversées par la Méridiene de Paris : suivant la détermination astronomique et géometrique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, De Berey, sculpsit. It was published by Académie royale des sciences ca. 1720. Scale [ca. 1:725,000]. This layer is image 1 of 4 total images of the 4 sheet source map, representing the northern portion of the map. 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, administrative boundaries, triangulation points and lines, 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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  14. Title: Paris Meridian Survey, France, ca. 1720 (Image 2 of 4) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte des provinces de France traversées par la Méridiene de Paris : suivant la détermination astronomique et géometrique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, De Berey, sculpsit. It was published by Académie royale des sciences ca. 1720. Scale [ca. 1:725,000]. This layer is image 2 of 4 total images of the 4 sheet source map, representing the north-central portion of the map.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, administrative boundaries, triangulation points and lines, 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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  15. Title: Paris Meridian Survey, France, ca. 1720 (Image 3 of 4) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte des provinces de France traversées par la Méridiene de Paris : suivant la détermination astronomique et géometrique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, De Berey, sculpsit. It was published by Académie royale des sciences ca. 1720. Scale [ca. 1:725,000]. This layer is image 3 of 4 total images of the 4 sheet source map, representing the south-central portion of the map.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, administrative boundaries, triangulation points and lines, 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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  16. Title: Paris Meridian Survey, France, ca. 1720 (Image 4 of 4) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte des provinces de France traversées par la Méridiene de Paris : suivant la détermination astronomique et géometrique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, De Berey, sculpsit. It was published by Académie royale des sciences ca. 1720. Scale [ca. 1:725,000]. This layer is image 4 of 4 total images of the 4 sheet source map, representing the southern portion of the map.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, administrative boundaries, triangulation points and lines, 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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  17. Title: A new map of North America, shewing its principal divisions, chief cities, townes, rivers, mountains, & c.: Dedicated to his Highness William Duke of Glocester; Delin M. Burg[hers] sculpt. Univ. Oxon.

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    Summary: From his A new sett of maps... Oxford, theatre, 1700 pl. 39; see Phillips no. 564, note with no. 3489 and BM cat. v. 1. col. 436. Relief shown pictorially. 1 map; 36 x 49 cm.

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  18. Title: France, ca. 1705 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Accuratissima Galliae tabula, vulgo = Royaume de France per Iacobum de La Feuille. It was published by Jacobo de la Feuille ca. 1705. Scale approximately 1:2,800,000. 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, roads, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also ornamental cartouche decorated with a figure holding the coat of arms of France.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: Deliniantur in hac tabula, Orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani; al. Maris Rubri; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, suprä Sindam usque Fluminis Indi, Cambaiae Indiae & Malabaris, Insulae Ceylon, Choromandeliae, & Orixae, fluvii Gangis, & Regni Bengalae, situs item Sinuum, Insularum...

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.; "Miliaria Germanica, quorum 15.uni gradui respondent" ; "HispanicÊ leucÊ 17 1/2. uni gradui competentia."; Confirmed match to Dutch, 1623 edition of Linschoten, Itinerario; may also match earlier Dutch editions. 38 x 52 centimeters Scale approximately 1:13,189,000 General Map Collection

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  20. Title: Tabula geographica generalis Imperii Russici ad normam novissimarum observationum astronomicarum concinnata (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Russia (1776). This map shows the Russian Empire stretching from Europe east to the Aleutian Islands off North America. The original map and this image are from the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. The georectifed map images are part of the David Rumsey Map Collection.The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

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