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  1. Title: Totius Lemovici et confinium provinciarum quantum ad dioecesin lemovicensen spectant novissima et fidissima descriptio, 1611 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Totius Lemovici et confinium provinciarum quantum ad dioecesin lemovicensen spectant novissima et fidissima descriptio. It was published by: sumptibus & typis aeneis Iudoci Hondij in 1611. Scale approximately 1:480,000. 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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  2. Title: Great Britain, 1642 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Insularum Britannicarum acurata Delineatio, ex geographicis conatibus Abrahami Ortelii ; Petrus Kaerius caelavit. It was published after Ioannem Ianssonium in 1642. Scale [ca. 1:2,500,000]. 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 and political borders shown pictorially. Includes also notes and illustrations of sailing ships, sea creatures, and people. On verso: text in French. 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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  3. Title: Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Includes inset maps of North and South Poles. The fourth state of Keere's map, without border. cf. Shirley, R. The mapping of the world, p. 283.

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  4. Title: Germaniae veteris, typus; Joannes Janssonius excud.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Includes a dedication to Iacobus Monavius Silesius patricius by Abraham Ortelius. From "Atlantis maioris appendix", Johannes Janssonius, 1630. 1 map; 36 x 46 cm.

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  5. Title: Erpach comitatus; Petrus Kaerius Caelavit.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Includes coat of arms in upper left hand corner and fruit around the title cartouche. From "Atlantis maioris appendix", Johannes Janssonius, 1630. 1 map; 34 x 45 cm

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  6. Title: Aracam

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:13,000,000 (E 90°41'00"--E 97°55'00"/N 28°00'00"--N 15°00'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Shows roads, railroads, lighthouses, passes, forts, and administrative divisions. On verso: French text, entitled: Description de Bengala. Oriented with north to the left. Page number in upper right: 69. Likely from: Thresor De Chartes, Contenant Les Tableaux De Tous Les Pays Du Monde / Barent Langenes. Amsterdam: Christoffle Guyot, 1602. 9 x 13 centimeters Scale 1:13,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  7. Title: La principaute de Dombes; J. van den Eynde sculpit.; La Principavte de Dombes

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. North oriented to the left. Includes French coat of arms and two figures on title cartouche, one holding a sword and the other a mirror, and a third face on the top of the title cartouche. From the Composite Atlas of France, title created to represent a unique collection within the Clark Library, University of Michigan. 1 map; 35 x 46 cm.

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  8. Title: Lille, France, ca. 1709 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la ville et citadelle de Lille, P. v. Call fecit. It was published by chez Anna Beek ca. 1709. Scale [ca. 1:9,281]. Covers Citadelle de Lille and a portion of Lille, France. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 31N 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 roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, defenses, and lines of fire, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also index.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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  9. Title: Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae, ca. 1662 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae. It was published by: J. Blaeu ca. 1662. Scale approximately 1:2,000,000. 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 (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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  10. Title: Great Britain, ca. 1695 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Magnae Britanniae Tabula : comprehendens Angliae, Scotiae, ac Hiberniae Regna, in omnes suascujusque Provincias peraccurate et distincte divisa / per Nicolm. Vissche, Amst. Bat. It was published by P. Schenk Jur. ca. 1725. Scale [ca. 1:2,300,000]. 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 ornate title cartouche with Hercules clubbing the hydra and dedication to King William III: 'Guilielmo III D.G. Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Regi; religionis et libertatis oppressae liberatori ac defensori.' 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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  11. Title: Rome, Italy, 1705 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Novissima et accuratissima delineatio Romae veteris et novae : in viatorum usum et commoditatem excusa, Petri Vander Aa. It was published by Petri Vander Aa in [1705]. Scale [ca. 1:20,040]. Covers Rome, Italy and Vatican City. Map in Latin and Italian.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'European Datum 1950 UTM Zone 33N' 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 pictorially, walls, gates, fortification, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes indexes.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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  12. Title: Mediterranean, ca. 1720 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: L'archipel avec toutes ses îles et les côtes des environs : suivant les anciens geographes, et les mémoires des meilleurs navigateurs modernes / et de nouveau mis au jour par Pierre Vander Aa. It was published by Pierre Vander Aa ca. 1720. Scale [ca. 1:1,750,000]. 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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  13. Title: Nouvelle Hollande (à présent Nouvelle-York), Nouvelle-Angleterre, et une partie de la Virginie

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Described by Campbell as second state of Ogilby's Novi Belgii, quod nunc Novi Jorck vocatur, Novae q[ue] Angliae & partis Virginiae. Probably issued in: La galerie agreable du monde. Leiden : Pierre vander Aa, [1729?] Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes ill.

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  14. Title: Partie meridionale de la Virginie, et la partie orientale de la Floride, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale : suviant les mémoires les plus exacts de ceux qui les ont decouvertes

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    Summary: Shows the east coast of North America from Baye S. Matheo to the eastern shore of Virginia. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in author's La galerie agreable du monde. -- [1729].

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  15. Title: Land en volk-ontdekking in't noorder gedeelte van America : door P. Marquette en Joliet, gedaan in't jaar 1673

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    Summary: "Pays et peuple decouverts en 1673 dans la partie septentrionale de l'Amerique par P. Marquette et Joliet, suivant la description qu'ils en ont faite, rectifiée sur diverses observations posterieures de nouveau mis au jour par Pierre vander Aa à Leide, avec privilege." Shows the Mississippi River and major tributaries; includes western part of Lake Michigan and Green Bay. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north at left.

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  16. Title: Royaume de Bengale, et les Rivieres qui se jettent dans le Gange : suivant la deácouverte des portugais

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:4,500,000 ; (E 85°58'00"--E 94°08'00"/N 27°00'00"--N 21°00'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Date from previous call number. In lower right:"53." In Dutch and French. 16 x 22 centimeters, on sheet 37 x 46 centimeters Scale approximately 1:4,500,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  17. Title: Indien binnen de Ganges : vertoonende de Koninkryken van Golconda, Decan, Bisnaga en grenzen van Mogol

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:15,000,000 ; (E 67°00'00"--E 97°00'00"/N 25°00'00"--N 6°30'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Date from previous call number. 16 x 22 centimeters, on sheet 37 x 45 centimeters Scale approximately 1:15,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  18. Title: Royaume de Bengale, et les pays voisins du Gange : situez entre le Mogolistan et le Pegu, tireá des Meámoires de Nuno de Cunha,

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:12,000,000 ; (E 73°12'00"--E 98°21'00"/N 32°30'00"--N 17°00'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Date from previous call number. In lower right:"52." In Dutch and French. 15 x 22 centimeters, on sheet 37 x 46 centimeters Scale approximately 1:12,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  19. Title: Carte du golfe de Bengale :

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:8,500,000 ; (E 66°00'00"--E 95°00'00"/N 25°00'00"--N 5°00'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Date from previous call number. On verso:"43." Below bar scale:"Se vend a Amsterdam chez J. Coávens et C. Mortier." In French. 27 x 34 centimeters, on sheet 54 x 65 centimeters Scale approximately 1:8,500,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  20. Title: Voyage par mer de Malacca au Golfe de Bengale : et aux coôtes de Siam jusqu'aè la Chine

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:20,000,000 ; (E 77°59'00"--E 107°51'00"/N 23°00'00"--N 0°31'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Date from previous call number. In Dutch and French. 15 x 22 centimeters, on sheet 36 x 44 centimeters Scale approximately 1:20,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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