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  1. Title: Islandia, 1611 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Islandia. It was published by: Sumptibus & typis aeneis Iudoci Hondij in 1611. Scale [ca. 1:1,300,000], 15 Miliaria Germanica communia [= 5,2 cm].. Map in Latin. 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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  2. Title: Berry ducatus, 1611 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Berry ducatus. It was published by: J. Hondius in 1611. Scale approximately 1:500,000. Map in Latin. 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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  3. Title: Africa, 1611 or 1612 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova Africae tabula, auctore Jodoco Hondio. It was published by Excusum in aedibus auctoris ca. between 1611 and 1612. Scale [ca. 1:24,000,000]. Covers Africa and small portions of Europe and the Middle East. Map in Latin.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal 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, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes.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: Estonia and Latvia, ca. 1696-1698 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Ducatuum Livoniae et Curlandiae novissima tabula : in quibus sunt Estonia, Litlandia et aliae minores provinciae, per Justum Danckerts. It was published by per Justum Danckerts between 1696 and 1698. Scale [ca. 1:1,000,000]. Covers Estonia, Latvia, and a portion of Russia and Lithuania. 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.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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  5. Title: Tartaria

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Shows cities and trees. Includes Great Wall of China; Corea as an island; early northwest coast of America; vignette illustrations of nomadic tribe, tents and livestock. English text on verso with caption title: The description of Tartaria or the Empire of the Grand Cham ; p. 413-414; signature: 9D. Bar scale: "Milliaria Germanica communia." Decorative cartouches. From: Atlas, or A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world ... / translated by Henry Hexham. Amsterdam : Hondius and Iohnson, 1636.

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  6. Title: Africae nova tabula

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    Summary: Hand colored.; Relief shown pictorially.; Title cartouche in upper right.; Cartouche in lower center: "Sumptibus et typis...Joannis Janssonij, Amsterdam."; Illustrated borders showing inhabitants in typical apparel.; Six insets in top border showing cities: Alcair -- Alexandria -- Alger --Tunis -- Tanger -- Ceuta. 50 x 35 centimeters Scale not given General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Virginiae item et Floridae Americae provinciarum, nova descriptio

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Map by Hondius, from a Dutch edition of Mercator's Atlas, with text on verso for "Virginia ende Floridae," p. 383 and 384. Signature: 8.X. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with a view of a Florida Indian village on the left, and a Virginia Indian village on the right.

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  8. Title: Andaluziæ nova descript

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. French text on verso with caption title: Andalouzie. En laquelle est la iurisdiction de Seville & l'Isle de Caliz; p. 221, 224; signature Kkk; catchword Lumiere. From: Atlas ou représentation du monde universel et des parties d'icelui, faicte en tables et desciptions tresamples, et exactes ... / Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii ... A Amsterdam : chez Henry Hondius, demeurant sur le Dam, a l'enseigne du chien vigilant, 1633.

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  9. Title: La partie septentrionale du Languedoc.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. North oriented to upper left. Includes a decorative title cartouche with two faces, the French coat of arms, compass rose. Incription reads "A Amsterdam chez Iosse Hondius, et se vend a Paris chez Melchoir Tavernier, demeurant aupres du Palais. a. 1623." [Printed] in Amsterdam at the store of Jodocus Hondius and sold in Paris at the store of Melchoir Tavernier, located near the Palace. Year 1623." From "Atlantis maioris appendix", Johannes Janssonius, 1630. 1 map 35 x 48 cm.

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  10. Title: Andaluziæ nova descript

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    Summary: From: Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura / Primum a Gerardo Mercatore inchoatae deinde a Iudoco Hondio ... [Amsterdam] : Sumptibus & typis aeneis Henrici Hondii, Amsterodami, 1628. Relief shown pictorially. French text on verso with caption title: Andalouzie. En laquelle est la iurisdiction de Seville & l'Isle de Caliz; p. 221, 224; signature Kkk; catchword dou-.

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  11. 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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  12. Title: Asiæ nova descriptio

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:20,000,000] (E 25°--E 145°/N 70°--S 10°). Relief shown pictorially. On verso: Novuelle Asie. 343. Nnnnnnn. Probably issued in: L'atlas, ou, Meditations cosmographiques de la fabrique du monde ... Amsterodami : Sumptibus & typis aeneis, Iudoci Hondij. 36 x 48 centimeters Scale [1:20,000,000] Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  13. Title: Asiæ nova descriptio

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. On verso: Novuelle Asie. 323. Ccccccc. Probably issued in: L'atlas, ou, Meditations cosmographiques de la fabrique du monde ... Amsterodami : Sumptibus & typis aeneis, Iudoci Hondij, 1613.

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  14. Title: Islandia

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:1,300,000, 15 Miliaria Germanica communia = 5,2 cm. Relief shown pictorially. Latin text on verso, title:""Islandia"" pp. 43-44. From: Gerardi Mercatoris atlas, sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Koeman, 1997, I, pages 582, [1250:1A]. 1 map ; 26 x 42 centimeters, on sheet 46 x 57 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,300,000, 15 Miliaria Germanica communia = 5,2 centimeters General Map Collection

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  15. Title: Designatio orbis Christiani

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "The second world map in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas Minor is planispherical in form and shows by means of symbols the areas where the Christian, Moslem and idolatrous religions are most prevalent. The map is of interest as one of the first examples of thematic illustration ... "--R.W. Shirley, The mapping of the world. Text in German on verso with caption title: Von der Reyss dess heyligen Apostels Pauli. From: Atlas minor, das ist, ein kurtze, jedoch gründtliche Beschreibung der gantzen Welt und aller ihrer Theyl / erstlich von Gerardo Mercatore in Latein beschrieben : folgends durch Iodocum Hondium mit vielen Kupffern gebessert und vermehrt : und endtlich in unsere hoch Teutsche Sprach versetzt. Amsterodami : excusum in aedibus Iodoci Hondii, veneunt etiam apud Corneliu[m] Nicolai, item apud Ioannem Ianssonium Arnhemi, [1609].

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  16. Title: Asiæ nova descriptio

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. From: Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterodami : Excusum in aedibus Iudoci Hondij, 1606. On verso of Historic Maps copy 1: Asia Nova. 321-322. On verso of Historic Maps copy 2: Asia Nova. 356. Zzzzzzz.

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  17. Title: Typus orbis terrarum

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    Summary: Circular world map in cordiform projection; with decorated borders possibly designed by Adriaen Collaert. "It seems likely that on his return from London to Amsterdam in 1593 Hondius took the original circular map plates with him and reissued the world map ... within the newly provided border."--Shirley, R. The mapping of the world.

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  18. Title: La partie septentrionale du Languedoc.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. North oriented to upper left. Includes a decorative title cartouche with two faces, the French coat of arms, compass rose. Incription reads "A Amsterdam chez Iosse Hondius, et se vend a Paris chez Melchoir Tavernier, demeurant aupres du Palais. a. 1623." [Printed] in Amsterdam at the store of Jodocus Hondius and sold in Paris at the store of Melchoir Tavernier, located near the Palace. Year 1623." From the Composite Atlas of France, title created to represent a unique collection within the Clark Library, University of Michigan. 1 map 35 x 48 cm.

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  19. Title: Galliae veteris typus.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Text in cartouche in upper right corner of map, "Nomenclaturae et positionis locorum huius tabulae testimonia, pete en Thesauro nostro geographico." From the Composite Atlas of France, title created to represent a unique collection within the Clark Library, University of Michigan. 1 map:; 38 x 48 cm.

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  20. Title: Bolonia et Guines comitatus.; Bolonia & Gvines comitatvs

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. North is oriented to the right side of the map. Includes the French coat of arms and illustrations of ships on the ocean. This state was published in atlases by Jan Jansson between 1631 and 1633. From the Jansson Appendix Atlas 1636-1680, title created to represent a unique collection within the Clark Library, University of Michigan. 1 map; 36 x 48 cm.

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