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  1. Title: Brescia, Italy, 1769 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de Brescia. It was published by Desaint in 1769. Scale [ca. 1:7,448]. Covers a portion of Brescia, Italy. 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 32N 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, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes 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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  2. Title: Parma, Italy, 1769 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Parma. It was published by Desaint in 1769. Scale [ca. 1:9,868]. Covers a portion of Parma, Italy. Map in Italian.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 32N 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, ground cover, and more. Includes 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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  3. Title: Piacenza, Italy, 1769 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la ville de Plaisance. It was published by Desaint in 1769. Scale [ca. 1:11,409]. Covers a portion of Piacenza, Italy. 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 32N 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, ground cover, and more. Includes 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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  4. Title: Plan de Florence

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    Summary: In upper margin: No. 8. Voyage en Italie Tom. II. Pl. 2. From: Voyage d'un françois en Italie, fait dans les années 1765 & 1766 ... Venise [i.e. Paris] : Desaint, 1769. Indexed for points of interest.

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  5. Title: Jerusalem, 1850 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de Jerusalem, d'apres MMrs. V. Wilson, (Ordnance Survey) et de Saulcy, (Voyage en Terre Sainte) ; L. Thuillier, Delt. It was published by Hachette & Cie ca. 1850. Scale [ca. 1:85,000]. Covers Jerusalem. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Israel Transverse Mercator (ESRI: Israel_TM_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 roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, religious sites, fortification, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes index. 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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  6. Title: Floridae Americae provinciae: recens and exactissima descriptio; auctore Jacobo le Moyne.

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    Summary: To accompany Le Moyne's narrative 979 F6L. Reproduction, probably late 19th cent. 1 map; 37 x 46 cm.

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  7. Title: Caen, France, ca. 1870 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Caen a vol d'oiseau, plan dessine et lithe par Arse. Le Cointe. It was published by Alfred Bouchard ca. 1870. Scale [ca. 1:5,900]. Covers the Caen region, 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 30N 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, ground cover, canals, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also inset of Beaulieu.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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  8. 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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  9. Title: Cape Town, South Africa, 1770 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la ville du Cap de Bonne Esperance et environs, par M.B.C.T. en Decembre 1770 ; Croisey sc. It was published in 1770. Scale [ca. 1:24,360]. Covers Cape Town, South Africa. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'WGS 1984 UTM 34S' 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, fortification, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Includes index. 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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  10. 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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  11. Title: Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1778 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper nautical chart entitled: Port de Halifax de la Nouvelle Ecosse : avec les recifs, dangers, bas fonds et sondes, leve par ordre du brigadier general Lawrence, gouverneur de la province, par Morris, premier arpenteur; publie a Londres en 1775. It was published chez le Rouge, rue des Grands Augutins in 1778. Scale [ca. 1:63,360]. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the UTM Zone 20N NAD83 (meters) 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 coastal features such as harbors, inlets, rocks, channels, points, coves, shoals, islands, and more. Includes also selected land features such as drainage, fortifications, and human settlements. Depths are shown by soundings and shading. Includes text. 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: Remarques sur la navigation de terre-neuve à New-York afin d'eviter les courrants et les bas-fonds au sud de Nantuckett et du Banc de George

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    Summary: "Based on Timothy Folger's original annotations ... It would appear that [Benjamin] Franklin added little or nothing beyond the red lines which indicated the portion to be reproduced ..."--De Vorsey, L. Pioneer charting of the Gulf Stream, in Imago mundi, 28 (1976), p. 107.

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  13. Title: Theatre de la guerre en Amérique

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.

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  14. Title: La Pensilvanie en trois feuilles : traduite des meilleures cartes anglaises = A map of Pennsylvania exhibiting not only the improved parts of the province, but alfo its extensive frontiers: laid down from actual surveys and chiefly from the late map of W. Scull, published in 1770; and humbly inscribed to the Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Esquires, true and absolute proprietaries & Governors of the Province of Pennsylvania, and the territories thereunto belonging.

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    Summary: Scale approximately 1:427,800.; 1 map: color; 61 x 120 cm Pennsylvania--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles

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  15. Title: Gibraltar : avec les nouveaux ouvrages, faits depuis le dernier siège : les lignes espagnoles levé nouvellement sur les lieux

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Insets: Isle Minorque -- Méditerranée. Indexed for points of interest.

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  16. Title: Isles Moluques

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. In upper right margin: 82. From: Atlas nouveau portatif. A Paris : chez le Rouge, 1748.

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  17. Title: L'etat de la République de Genes tiré des meillieurs cartes d'Italie corrigé sur les lieux = Stato di Genova con altri adiacenti : dedicato all' impareggiabile merito di S.A.S. il signor conte di Sassonia, maresciallo generale delle armate di S.M. Christianissima

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    Summary: Map of the Republic of Genoa. Relief shown pictorially.

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  18. Title: Plan de Tournay: Ville episcopale située sur l'Escaut; à Paris, Chez le Sr. le Rouge ingr. géographe du Roy ruë des Augustins.

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    Summary: Shows military operations during siege of 1745. Show public and outlying buildings, city streets, fortifications, fields, marshes, etc. Relief by hachures. Text written in French. Scale measured in Toises. 1 map: hand col., dissected and mounted on linen; 49 x 58 cm, folded in slipcase 18 x 14 cm.

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  19. Title: Les environs de Londres : à sept lieues à la ronde

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Based on a map published by Homann heirs in 1741, which in turn was based on Thomas Bowles' "A new & correct map of thirty miles round London" of ca. 1740. cf. Darlington and Howgego. Printed maps of London.

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  20. Title: Le cours du Po, du Tanaro, Doria, Sessia, Tessin, Adda, Oglio, et traversants le Piemont, Montferrat, Milanois Mantouan, Parmesan, et Ferrarois

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.

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