219 results returned
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Title: Siege of Prague, Czech Republic, 1742 (Raster Image)
Contributors:- Raster data
- 2015
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- Le Rouge, Georges-Louis.
- Soubise, Charles de Rohan, prince de, 1715-1787, dedicatee.
Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan des environs de Prague : et des camps des deux armees dedie a Mgr. Le Prince de Soubise, par son tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur le Rouge. It was published by Le Rouge in 1742. Scale [1:20,000]. Covers Prague, Czech Republic. Map in French and Czech. 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, fortification, ground cover, and more. Shows troop disposition, lines of defense, and other features of military interest related to the Siege of Prague, 1742 during the War of the Austrian Succession. 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 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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Title: Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1778 (Raster Image)
Contributors:- Raster data
- 2009
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
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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Title: Newport, Rhode Island, 1782 (Raster Image)
Contributors:- Raster data
- 2007
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- Le Rouge, Georges-Louis.
- France. Ingenieurs de l'Armee.
Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la position de l'armee francaise au tour de Newport dans Rhode jsland et du mouillage de l'escadre dans la rade de cette ville. It was published in 1782 Chez le Rouge. Scale [ca. 1:22,200]. Covers the Newport, Rhode Island region including a portion of Narragansett Bay. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 3800). 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, selected buildings, American Revolution military fortifications, French army camps, French naval vessels with lines of fire, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes 'legende.' This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.
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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
Contributors:- Image data
- 1785
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
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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Title: Theatre de la guerre en Amérique
Contributors:- Image data
- 1777
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Relief shown pictorially.
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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.
Contributors:- Early maps ; Physical maps
- 1770
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Pennsylvania State University)
Summary: Scale approximately 1:427,800.; 1 map: color; 61 x 120 cm Pennsylvania--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles
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Title: Gibraltar : avec les nouveaux ouvrages, faits depuis le dernier siège : les lignes espagnoles levé nouvellement sur les lieux
Contributors:- Image data
- 1756
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Insets: Isle Minorque -- Méditerranée. Indexed for points of interest.
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Title: Isles Moluques
Contributors:- Image data
- 1748
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Relief shown pictorially. In upper right margin: 82. From: Atlas nouveau portatif. A Paris : chez le Rouge, 1748.
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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
Contributors:- Image data
- 1747
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Map of the Republic of Genoa. Relief shown pictorially.
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Title: Plan de Tournay: Ville episcopale située sur l'Escaut; à Paris, Chez le Sr. le Rouge ingr. géographe du Roy ruë des Augustins.
Contributors:- Not specified
- 1745
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by University of Michigan)
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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Title: Les environs de Londres : à sept lieues à la ronde
Contributors:- Image data
- 1745
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
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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Title: Le cours du Po, du Tanaro, Doria, Sessia, Tessin, Adda, Oglio, et traversants le Piemont, Montferrat, Milanois Mantouan, Parmesan, et Ferrarois
Contributors:- Image data
- 1745
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Relief shown pictorially.
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Title: Le royaume d'Angleterre : divisé en comtez et baronies
Contributors:- Image data
- 1745
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Relief shown pictorially.
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Title: Les Isles Britanniques, ou les royaumes d'Angleterre, d'Écosse, d'Irlande
Contributors:- Image data
- 1744
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Insets: Les isles de Jersey et Grenesey -- Isles de Ferro our de Farre [and] Isles de Hetland ou de Schetland.
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Title: Le Piemont et le Monferrat dressé sur les dernieres observations limité suivant l'art. 4. du traité d'Utrecht : dedie à Mgr. le comte de Maurepas
Contributors:- Image data
- 1744
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Relief shown pictorially.
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Title: L'Italie, dressée sur les dernres. observations dediée a Monseigr. le Comte de Maurepas, Ministre, et Secretaire d'Etat
Contributors:- Image data
- 1743
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Longitudes compteés du Meridien de Paris." "Les côtes sont prises sur les cartes marines faittes depuis peu par ordre de Monseigr. le Comte de Maurepas." Includes scale bars in lieues communes de France, milles de Piemont, milles communes d'Italie, milles de Genes, and milles de Rome. Appears in the author's Atlas général contenant le détail des quartre parties du monde principalement celui de l'Europe, plate 127. "A Paris, rue des Grands Augustins vis a vis le Panier Fleury."
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Title: Le royaume de Boheme
Contributors:- Not specified
- 1742
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by University of Michigan)
Summary: 1 map : col., mounted on linen ; 50 x 63 cm Shows parts of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Germany and Poland. Relief shown pictorially. Cartouche in upper right hand corner. Reduced from a map of Bohemia by Johann Christoph Müller, Austrian engineer and cartographer, drawn in 1720 on 25 sheets.
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Title: Les XVII. provinces dites les Pays-Bas : où l'on distingue éxactement la succession de Charles VI
Contributors:- Image data
- 1742
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Map of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; relief shown pictorially.
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Title: Succession de Charles VI. en Italie le duché de Milan, de Mantoue, de Parme et de Plaisance : suivant les nouvelles observations
Contributors:- Image data
- 1742
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Map of northwestern Italy. Relief shown pictorially. In lower left: On trouve chez l'auteur toutes les cartes necessaires pour l'intelligence de la guerre present.
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Title: Plan de Paris a vol d'oiseau : reproduction artistique en élévations de toutes les rues, maisons et richesses artistiques de Paris
Contributors:- Image data
- 1958
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Summary: Bird's-eye view.