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  1. Title: Beijing, China, 1843 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Chinese plan of the city of Peking, T.B. Jervis; the chinese characters and explanations rendered into English were furnished by Mr. Samuel Birch, from a comparison of the above documents and the notes appended to the original by the students in the Missionary College at Naples. It was published by lithographed and printed under the direction of T.B. Jervis Scale [ca. 1:50,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 50N, meters, WGS 1984) 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, parks, cemeteries, ground cover, city districts, fortification, missions, temples, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also dedication: 'To Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. This fac-simile of a Chinese plan of the Tartar, or inner city, Nuyching, and the Imperial Palace Kingtoo of Peking or Chun Thein Foo. The northern residence of the court, or capital of the Chinese Empire is most respectfully inscribed, with Her Majesty's faithful servant T. B. Jervis.'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: Carte générale des découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte, et autres navigateurs espagnols, anglois et russes pour la recherche du passage á la mer du sud

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    Summary: Pictorial relief. "Suppl. 7e. carte" upper right hand corner of map. This is one of ten maps which appeared in a supplement of the Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raissoné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. The supplement was published by Charles-Joseph Panckouke. Inset map: Carte dressée sur la lettre de l'Amiral de Fonte par l'Ecrivain de la Californie. 30 x 39 centimeters Scale approximately 1:22,000,000 General Map Collection

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  3. Title: Middle East and Cyprus, 1764 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte générale de la Syrie, de la Palestine, et de l'isle de Chypre : avec une partie de l'Asie Mineure, de l'Armenie, de la Mesopotamie, de l'Arabie et de l'Egypte : pour servir a l'histoire des croisades. It was published by Joseph Nicolas de L'Isle in 1764. Scale ca. 1:2,350,000. 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 (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: Middle East, 1764 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Paradisi terrestris et circumjacentium regionum situs. It was published by: chez Lattré in 1764. Scale not given. 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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  5. Title: Syria and Lebanon, 1764 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte particuliere de la Syrie : comprise entre les villes d'Antioche et Alep, Seyde ou Sidon et Damas. It was published by: Chez Lattré in 1764. Scale [ca. 1:640,000]. 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 37N (EPSG: 32637) 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: Northern South America, Brazil, etc., 1762 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Terre-Ferme, Perou, Brésil, Pays de l'Amazone, par Robert de Vaugondy &c. ; gravé par E. Dussy It was published by Paris : chés l'Auteur, Quai de l'Horloge près le Pont neuf in 1762. Scale ca. 1:3,800,000. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the SAD 69 / Brazil Polyconic 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 also names of indigenous peoples. 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: Carte générale du théatre de la guerre en Pologne : Corrigée et Divisée selon les Partages faits en 1772, 1793 et 1795 entre la Russie, la Prusse et l'Autriche

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    Summary: Includes a diagram of former Polish possessions.; Relief shown pictorially. 48 x 56 centimeters Scale [1:2,500,000] General Map Collection

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  8. Title: Plan géométral de Paris et de ses fauxbourgs

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Plate 117 from: Atlas universel / par Robert ... et par Robert de Vaugondy son fils ... corrigé et augmenté de la carte de la République française divisée en départemens par C.F. Delamarche ... A Paris : chez Delamarche, [1783-99] Inset: Département de la Seine.

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  9. Title: La Judée depuis le retour de la captivité, et particulierment sous Herode le Grand et ses enfans, tems de N.S. Jesus-Christ : supplement a l'Atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondi

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Longitude from Ferro shown on map. Longitude computed from Greenwich. Title cartouche shows the miraculous catch of fish. Insets: La Judée sous la domination des Turcs faisant actuellement partie de la Syrie -- Plan de Jérusalem moderne sous la domination des Turcs - - Plan de Jérusalem du tems de N.S.J.C.

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  10. Title: Carte des environs de la Mer Noire oú se trouvent l'Ukrayne, la Petite Tartarie et les confins de la Russie Européen, et de la Turquie

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    Summary: Prime meridian: Ferro.; Hand colored. 48 x 63 centimeters Scale 1:2,500,000 General Map Collection

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  11. Title: Amérique ou Indes Occidentales

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Re-edition of 1749 L'Amérique Septentrionale et Méridionale. Engraved by: Delahaye l'ainé. Cartouche designed and engraved by: Arrivet. Table to right of map provides information on the different countries of the two continents.

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  12. Title: Royaume de Hongrie, Principauté de Transilvanie, Sclavonie, Croatie et partie de la Principauté de Valaquie, de la Bosnie, de la Servie et de la Bulgarie

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Ornamental cartouche. Scale [1:1,450,000] General Map Collection

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  13. Title: Partie de l'Amérique septentrionale : qui comprend le cours de l'Ohio, la Nlle. Angleterre, la Nlle York, le New Jersey, la Pensylvanie, le Maryland, la Virginie, la Caroline

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Inset "Supplément pour la Caroline." "Avec privilège 1755." "Groux engraved for Robert de Vaugondy 1758-76"--Tooley. Covers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. Shows provinces, counties, towns and cities, rivers, Indian villages and tribal territory, and forts. Later version of a map originally appearing in the author's Atlas universal. 1757 [i.e. 1758].

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  14. Title: La Judée ou Terre Sainte, divisée en ses douze Tribus

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege, 1750." Probably issued in: Atlas universel / par M. Robert ... et par M. Robert de Vaugondy son fils ... Paris : Chez les auteurs, quay de l'Horloge du Palais, Boudet libraire imprimeur du roi, ruë St. Jacques, 1757. Includes inset: Carte de la terre de Canaan ou Terre Promise, à Abraham, et à sa posterité ... / par le Sr. Robert. Cartouche signed: Groux.

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  15. Title: Carte des royaumes d'Espagne et de Portugal dans laquelle sont tracées les routes des postes

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    Summary: Pictorial relief. Appears in Vaugondy's Atlas universal ... Paris : chez les auteurs ; Boudet, 1757-[1758].

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  16. Title: Carte de l'Italie dans laquelle sont traceés les routes des postes

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege." Illustrated cartouche. From: Atlas universel / par M. Robert ... et par M. Robert de Vaugondy son fils ... Paris : chez les auteurs, quay de l'Horloge du Palais, Boudet libraire imprimeur du roi, ruë St. Jacques, 1757.

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  17. Title: Partie de l'Amérique septent? qui comprend la Nouvelle France ou le Canada

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    Summary: Hand colored.; Relief shown pictorially.; Inset: Supplement pour les Lacs du Canada.; On verso: 103. 48 x 59 centimeters Scale approximately 1:4,000,000 General Map Collection

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  18. Title: Environs de Paris

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. From his : Atlas universel, 1757.

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  19. Title: Mappemonde, ou, Description du globe terrestre [cartographic material] : dres??e fur les memoires les plus nouveaux, et assujettie aux observations astronomiques / par Robert de Vaugondy, fils.

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    Summary: Restored from the original by Editio Totius Mundi, Vienna.;Facsimile of the 1752 ed., published by Robert de Vaugondy.;Scale not given. Relief shown by shading. "No. 2102.";2 maps, colored;63 x 85 cm., each 35 cm. in diameter

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  20. Title: Le royaume de Pologne: divisé en ses duchés et provinces, et subdivisé en Palatinats; Par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy.

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    Summary: Ornamental title. In Atlas universel, 1757. 1 map: hand col.; 47 x 52 cm.

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