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  1. Title: Genehoa, Jaloffi, et Sierraliones regna

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Relief shown pictorially. Map oriented with north to the left. Includes a decorative title cartouche and compass rose. Scale approximately 3,100,000

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  2. Title: Polus Antarcticus

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    Summary: 500 Hemispherical map centered on the South Pole to the Tropic of Capricorn; includes southern parts of South America and South Africa and the west and south coasts of Australia. Relief and vegetation shown pictorially.; 500 Illustrated corners contain native scenes, including animals, birds, boats and a representation of a penguin.; This is the third state of the Polus Antarcticus map, with text verso: Polus Antarcticus, cum regionibus subjacentibus, & maribus illum alluentibus [Description of the South Pole and the land which lies around it]. 44 x 50 centimeters, on sheet 49 x 57 centimeters Scale not given General Map Collection

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  3. Title: Angilae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicar: insularum descriptio; Amstelodami. Excudebat Ioannes Ianssonius. Anno 1621.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Map is oriented with North to the right. Vignette in lower right corner shows three portraits of royalty and two birds with flowers in their beaks, around text, "Ea insula quae hodie duo Regna, Anglicum nempe & Scoticum continet, cum Hibernia illi ab Occidente opposita, e insulis circumjacentibus, ut sunt Orcades, Hebrides, Mondvectis & ceterae, a veteribus communi olim vocabulo Britannicae appellatae fuerunt; nmine uti videtur sumpto ab earum maxima, quam singulariter Britanniam dixe: re. idque ab ejus genuino et antiquissimo autochtho: num vocabulo Prydain, ut Humfredo placet." Coat of arms in the upper left corner, and scattered through the sea are drawings of ships, people or mermen waist-deep in the water blowing shells, and a woman and man holding a trident and riding a reined hippocamp. Thought to be from Atlantis Maioris Appendix, 1:202 in Koeman's. 1 map; 33 x 48 cm.

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  4. Title: Aria Attol

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:70,000] (E 96°45'--E 96°59'/S 11°47'--S 12°15'). Relief shown by soundings. Possibly from: De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel / by een gebragt en opgestelt door Jan de Marre ... in 't Licht gebragt door Joannes van Keulen. Amsterdam : by Joannes van Keulen, Boek-en Kaartverkoper aan de Nieuwe Brug in de gekroonde Lootsman, 1753. 38 x 62 centimeters Scale [1:70,000] Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  5. Title: [British Indian Ocean Territory]

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 71°--E 73°/S 5°--S 7°). Relief shown by soundings. Title supplied by cataloger. Both maps include costal profiles. Possibly from: De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel / by een gebragt en opgestelt door Jan de Marre ... in 't Licht gebragt door Joannes van Keulen. Amsterdam : by Joannes van Keulen, Boek-en Kaartverkoper aan de Nieuwe Brug in de gekroonde Lootsman, 1753. 23 x 26 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  6. Title: Het Eyland Diego Rais

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 71°--E 73°/S 5°--S 7°). Relief shown by soundings. Second map depicts The Dangerous Shoals of S. BrandaÃÉo and lists the location; could not match this to any known geography, though a Vingboons map on page 376 of Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie volume 5 (from 1665-1670) shows"S. BrandaÃÉo" to the NE of Rodrigues Island. Possibly from: De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel / by een gebragt en opgestelt door Jan de Marre ... in 't Licht gebragt door Joannes van Keulen. Amsterdam : by Joannes van Keulen, Boek-en Kaartverkoper aan de Nieuwe Brug in de gekroonde Lootsman, 1753. 38 x 62 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  7. Title: Pas caart van de Cocos-Eylanden

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:220,000] (E 96°45'--E 96°59'/S 11°47'--S 12°15'). Relief shown by soundings. Possibly from: De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel / by een gebragt en opgestelt door Jan de Marre ... in 't Licht gebragt door Joannes van Keulen. Amsterdam : by Joannes van Keulen, Boek-en Kaartverkoper aan de Nieuwe Brug in de gekroonde Lootsman, 1753. Contents: Coastal profiles: Aldus vertoont het Noordelijkste van de Cocos Eijlanden ... -- Aldus Vertoonenzig drie van de Zuijdelijke Cocos Eijlanden. 23 x 26 centimeters Scale [1:220,000] Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  8. Title: Nieuwe afteekening van Bombay : en omleggende Eylanden gelegen aan de kust van Decam

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:60,000. (E 72°47'17"--E 72°57'07"/N 18°59'18"--N 18°49'31"). Date from previous call number. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown pictorially; depth shown by soundings. 42 x 52 centimeters Scale approximately 1:60,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  9. Title: By de Maldivische Eylanden

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:633,600 ; (E 72°51'00"--E 73°44'00"/N 1°04'00"--S 0°01'00"). Date from previous call number. Relief shown pictorially; depth shown by soundings. 23 x 26 centimeters, on sheet 40 x 61 centimeters Scale approximately 1:633,600 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  10. Title: Pas caart van een gedeelte van de Kusten van Cuncancanara en Malabar : met het noorlykste van de Maldivische Eylanden in de Oost

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:1,450,000 ; (E 69°30'00"--E 76°30'00"/N 16°10'00"--N 9°50'00"). Date from previous call number. Shows flags on coast indicating nationality of factories. Relief shown pictorially; depth shown by soundings. 49 x 57 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,450,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  11. Title: De Kust van Coromandel

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:335,000 ; (E 80°00'00"--E 81°23'00"/N 14°08'00"--N 12°31'00"). Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:4,500. Date from previous call number. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially; depth shown by soundings. 23 x 26 centimeters, sheet 39 x 61 centimeters Scale approximately 1:335,000; Scale approximately 1:4,500 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  12. Title: Tinkoomen van de Rivier van Suratte

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:21,000 ; (E 72°34'31"--E 72°50'25"/N 21°14'19"--N 20°45'25"). Date from previous call number. Relief shown pictorially; depth shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the upper-right. 27 x 47 centimeters Scale approximately 1:21,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  13. Title: Nieuwe afteekening van de Kust van Coromandel en een gedeelte van de Kust van Golconda : strekkende van de noorthoek van Ceylon

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:1,800,000 ; (E 78°50'00"--E 85°22'00"/N 19°10'00"--N 9°50'00"). Date from previous call number. Shows flags on coast indicating nationality of factories. Relief shown pictorially; depth shown by soundings. 49 x 57 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,800,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  14. Title: Paskaart van de Maldivische Eylanden : ats mede de zuydelykste kusten van Malabaar en Coromandel, beneffens de west kust van Cey

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:2,200,000. (E 72°09'00"--E 76°50'00"/N 10°00'00"--S 0°01'00"). Date from previous call number. Relief shown pictorially; depth shown by soundings. 48 x 56 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,200,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  15. Title: De Modder Bay van Cranganoor : op de kust van Malabaar de dieptens zyn alle voeten

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:38,016 ; (E 76°07'55"--E 76°14'03"/N 10°13'17"--N 10°07'25"). Date from previous call number. Relief shown pictorially; depth shown by soundings. 23 x 26 centimeters Scale approximately 1:38,016 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  16. Title: De Kust van Madure

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:95,040 ; (E 78°05'36"--E 78°16'29"/N 8°45'12"--N 8°31'01"). Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:31,680 ; (E 78°08'15"--E 78°13'18"/N 8°49'03"--N 8°42'12"). Date from previous call number. Nationality of factories indicated by flags. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially; depth shown by soundings. 23 x 26 centimeters, sheet 38 x 61 centimeters Scale approximately 1:95,040; Scale approximately 1:31,680 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  17. Title: Archipelagusche eylanden

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    Summary: Depths shown by soundings. From an unidentified atlas, plate XVI. Inset: De stadt en haven van Rhodus. "Met privilegie."

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  18. Title: Pas-kaart vande zee kusten van Niew Nederland anders genaamt Niew York tusschen Renselaars Hock en de Staaten Hoek

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    Summary: door C.J. Vooght geometra. Inset title: Noord Rivier anders R. Manhattans off Hudsons Rivier genaamt in t'groodt Inset title: Versche Rivier in t'groodt Relief shown pictorially. Marine chart showing the coast from Sandy Hook to Buzzard'd Bay and including Long Island. Insets show the Hudson River from its mouth to the Mohawk River and the lower part of the Connecticut River. From Keulen's "De Uchtende zeefakkelj.." which was published between 1681 and 1696. 1 map; 53 x 61 cm.

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  19. Title: Nieuwe paskaart van het noordelÿkste gedeelte van de Golf van Bengalen : vertoonende de custen van Orixa Bengalen on Arracam

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:2,300,000 (E 83°34'00"--E 95°23'00"/N 29°05'00"--N 18°30'00"). Date from previous call number. Relief shown pictorially; depth shown by soundings."A. Trÿsz, sculp. 1742." 52 x 59 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,300,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  20. 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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