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  1. Title: [Map of the country from Gulf of Venice - Belgrade - to Black Sea, the eastern sheet marked] MDLX [1560]

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    • 1560
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    Summary: Shows the Gulf of Venice and the Adriatic coast from Venice to Croatia. Relief shown pictorially. Title and imprint from Tooley. Historic Maps copy imperfect: western sheet only.

  2. Title: Totius Graeciae descriptio D[omi]no Iacobi de Gastaldij cosmographi generoso ... 1560

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    • 1570
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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Title and publication date from Zacharakis. From: Tavole moderne di geografia ... ca. 1570. The map is similar to Zacharakis no. 564: "The map no. 564 consists of 4 sheets. The SE sheet covers the Balkan peninsula and Greece with the Archipelago and Crete and measures 53.5 x 49 cms. The title is on the SW sheet, while on the SE sheet is only the inscription: "fabius licinius fecit Venetiis." MDLX ... Note: In some issues the above inscription on the NE sheet appears with Lafreri's imprint: In Roma per Ant. Laferj."--C.G. Zacharakis, A catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1477-1800. Historic Maps has SE sheet only.

  3. Title: Antwerpiae nobilissimi totius orbis terrarau[m] emporii typus anno M.D.XCVIII

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    • 1625
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    Summary: Bird's-eye view of Antwerp, Belgium; relief shown pictorially. In: Ludovici Guicciardini. Omnium Belgii, sive Inferioris Germaniae regionum accurata descriptio. p. 59.

  4. Title: Carta da navegar de Nicolo et Antonio Zeni furono in Tramontana lano M.CCC.LXXX

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    • 1873
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    Summary: Carbon facsimile of the Zeno Map, of doubtful authenticity, published in 1558. Relief shown pictorially. Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and fictional or mislabeled islands of Frisland, Estland, and Icaria and landmasses of Tramontana, Crolandia, Estotiland, and Drogeo are shown. Map shows latitude in degrees and lines of longitude. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 43 (1873), pp. 156-206; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v. 43 1873

  5. Title: Carte de l'Afrique: corrigeé et augmentée dessus toutes les autres cy devant faictes l'anneé.

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    • 1646
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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. From Pierre Mariette's "Theatre geographique de France contenant les cartes particulieres de ses provinces". 1 map; 38 x 50 cm

  6. Title: Carte de l'Asie

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    • 1640
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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:27,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. From Tassin's Cartes geáneárales de toutes les prouinces de France, 1640-1643. In lower right corner:"Cornelis Danckertz schulpsit." 37 x 49 centimeters

  7. Title: Austria Archiducatus; Auctore Wolfgango Lazio; Amstelodami Joannes Janssonius Excudit.; Avstria Archidvcatvs

    • Not specified
    • 1630
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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. The title cartouche includes a coat of arms topped with a crown and two eagle heads with each holding a flowering vine in their beak. From "Atlantis maioris appendix", Johannes Janssonius, 1630. 1 map; 35 x 49 cm

  8. Title: Carte de l'Amerique : corrigée et augmentée, dessus toutes les aultres cy deuant

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    • 1624
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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. State 1 according to Burden. Includes ill, text, and insets of Greenland area and Antarctica.

  9. Title: Descriptio terræ subaustralis

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    • 1616
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    Summary: From: P. Bertii tabularum geographicarum contractarum, 1616, p. 82. On verso: Latin text, entitled: P. Bertii tabularum geographicarum contractarum. Liber tertius, in quo terra subaustralis. Hemispherical map centred on the South Pole. "Shows 'Magallanica sive Terra Australis Incognita' practically joined to New Guinea, with Beach Provincia, Psittacorum Regio, Promontorium terrae australis and Terra del fuogo all joined together in one vast continent"--Tooley.

  10. Title: Nova Guinea et ins. Salomonis

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    • 1616
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    Summary: Map of New Guinea and Solomons. In Latin. At head of map: Descriptio Novæ Guineæ &c. Pg. 88 from: P. Bertij Tabularum geographicarum contractarum. Amsterodami : I. Hondij, 1616. Includes text on verso: Descriptio Terrae Subaustralis.

  11. Title: Rhodi

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    • 1616
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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. In upper margin: 't Eyland Rhodus. 559. Text in Dutch on verso with title: Beschryvinghe van't Eijland Rhodus. Probably issued in: P. Bertij Tabularum geographicarum contractarum ... Amsterodami : J. Hondius, 1616.

  12. Title: Typus orbis terrarum Domini est terra et plenitudo eius

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    • 1616
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    Summary: Title in upper margin: Descriptio orbis nostra. Text on verso: Comparatio operis praesentis cum Ptolemaico ... From: Petri Berti Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri septem.

  13. Title: Arachan & Pegv.

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    • 1602
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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:12,000,000 (E 92°20'00"--E 101°20'00"/N 25°30'00"--N 12°30'00"). Relief shown pictorially. On verso: French text, entitled: Description de Bengala. Oriented with north to the left. Page number in upper left: 734. Likely from: Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri septem / Petrus Bertius. 1602. 9 x 13 centimeters

  14. Title: Brasilia

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    • 1602
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    Summary: In upper margin: Descriptio Brasiliæ. Latin text on verso with caption title: Descriptio Americæ Australis, p. 603. Probably issued in: P. Bertii Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quinque. Amstelodami, : apud Cornelium Nicolai, anno 1602 ; veneunt autem Arnhemij apud Ioannem Ioannis.

  15. Title: Fretum Magellanicum

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    • 1602
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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. In upper margin: Strate van Magellanes. 753. Text in Dutch on verso with title: Beschryvinghe vande Strate van Magellanes. From: P. Bertij Tabularum geographicarum contractarum ... Editio secunda. Amstelodami : Apud Cornelium Nicolai, Anno 1602.

  16. Title: Africa nuova tavola

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    • 1561
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    Summary: Detached from La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo, Alessandrino, and based on a 1548 edition by Giacomo Gastaldi. Map coverage: Central and Southern Africa. Relief shown pictorially.

  17. Title: Calecut nuova tavola

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    • 1564
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    Summary: Map of southern India and the Maldives. Relief shown pictorially. From: La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino / nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano da Ieronimo Ruscelli ... In Venetia : Appresso Giordano Ziletti, 1564.

  18. Title: India tercera nuova tavola

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    • 1564
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    Summary: Map of Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Relief shown pictorially. From: La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino / nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano da Ieronimo Ruscelli ... In Venetia : Appresso Giordano Ziletti, 1564.

  19. Title: Tabula Europae X

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    • 1562
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    Summary: Map of Greece with relief shown pictorially. Text on verso: Decima et vltima Europae tabula. From: Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini. Venetiis : apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1562.

  20. Title: Natolia nuova tavola

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    • 1562
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    Summary: Map of Turkey with relief shown pictorially. Latin text on verso: Nataliæ nova tabula, vigesimaquinta additarum, & 41. in ordine. From: Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini. Venetiis : apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1562.

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