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  1. Title: Scandinavia, ca. 1660 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Tabula regnorum Sueciae et Norvegiae, by JLhuilier sc. It was published by Frederick de Wit ca. 1660. Scale [ca. 1:4,300,000]. Covers Scandinavia including Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, and portions of Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia. 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. Includes also 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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  2. Title: Tunes, oppidum barbarie & regia sedes : anno 1535. cum à Carolo V. Imp. expugnaretur

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    Summary: Pictorial views of Tunis in 1535, Mahdia in 1540, and Peñon de Veles in 1564, under siege by the forces of Emperor Charles V. From: Civitates orbis terrarum. Cologne : Braun and Hogenberg, 1572-1618. German text on verso.

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  3. Title: Graubunden Region, Switzerland, 1724 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nouvelle carte du pays de Grisons : avec ses dependances la Valteline, les comtes de Chiavenne, et Bormio, dressee sur les observations du Ph. Cluvere geographe, et du Collonel Schmid de Gruenek ; Johannes van Lugtenburg gesneden ; en door Jacob Keyzer gecorrigeert. It was published by R. Ottens in 1724. Scale [ca. 1:260,000]. Covers the Kanton Graubunden region of Switzerland and portions of Liechtenstein, Italy, and Austria. 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, towns, villages, and other human settlements, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes alsoThis 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: Londini Angliæ regni metropolis novissima & accuratissima; autore Joanne de Ram.

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    Summary: Includes index, illus. and portraits of William III and Mary II. Includes panoramic view from the south of London. 1 map; 49 x 58 cm.

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  5. Title: Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Includes inset: Bermuda majori mole expressa. "Copied from the map in De Laet's "Novus Orbis" (ed. 1633) by J.F.T. (?), 1860."--note in lower right-hand corner. Facsimile of map originally published: Lugd. Batav. [Leiden] : Apud Elzevirios, 1633.

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