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  1. Title: Africa, 1637 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova descriptio Africæ. It was published by M. Merian in 1637. Scale ca. 1:27,500,000. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal 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. Illustrated pictorially with animals and ships. 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: Navarino ; Modon

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial views of the ports of Navarino (modern Pylos) and Modon (modern Methōnē). From Martin Zeiller's Topographia Italiae ... Franckfurt : M. Merian, 1688.

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  3. Title: Goa

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.; Includes coat of arms and illustrations of ships, structures, and an elephant.; Includes numbered key to 43 points of interest.; Place and year of publication provided by dealer.; From Merian's Archontologia Cosmica. 27 x 35 centimeters, on sheet 31 x 37 centimeters Scale not given City Maps

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  4. Title: America noviter delineata

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    Summary: 1 map; (In Abelin (Johann Philipp). Newe welt und Americanische historien. Durch Johann Ludwig Gottfriedt (pseud.) fol. Franckfurt, 1631. p. 1); Insets: Groenlan and text "Septentrionalisimas America párles, Groenlandiam puta, Islandiam et adjacentes quod Americæ comode comprehendi non potuerit, peculiare hac tabella. Spectatoriby exhibendas duximus."; Decorated with ships and fish. Scale approximately 1:50,010,000. At Equator (W 139°55ʹ00ʺ--W 20°12ʹ00ʺ/N 71°39ʹ00ʺ--S 70°35ʹ00ʺ).

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  5. Title: Roma

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    Summary: Title ROMA on banderole at upper left, above compass giving orientation with north at left. Arms of city of Rome at upper right. Tempesta's name as draughtsman and Merian's as etcher at lower right. Relief conveyed pictorially.

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  6. Title: Nova descriptio Africæ

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    Summary: Imprint from Norwich. Relief shown pictorially.

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  7. Title: Munich, Germany, 1644 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Monachivm = Munchen. It was published by M. Merian in 1644. Scale [ca. 1:5,400]. Covers Munich, Germany. Map in German and Latin. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) Gauss Kruger Zone 4, Rauenberg Datum' 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 and buildings shown pictorially. 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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  8. Title: Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula: Wahre Biltnüss des Gantzen Erden Kraÿses mit allen seinen theilen

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    Summary: 1 map: black and white; Relief shown pictorially; Insets: Septentrio--Meridies. Scale approximately 1:114,500,000 (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°).

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  9. Title: La Louisiana, parte settentrionalle

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Illustrated. Watermark. Relief shown pictorially. Scale approximately 1:5,100,000

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  10. Title: Carte de la Grece, ca. 1730 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de la Grece : dressé sur un grand nombre de memoires anciens et nouveaux : sur ceux de Mrs. Wheler et Tournefort, sur les observations astronomiques de Mr. Vernon du P. Feuillée minime &c. It was published by: Chez R. & J. Ottens, geographes ca. 1730. Scale approximately 1:2,100,400. Map in French. Map in multiple languages. 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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  11. Title: Le cours du Danube depuis sa source jusqu'a ses embouchures, 1693 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Le cours du Danube depuis sa source jusqu'a ses embouchures. It was published by: chez H. Jaillot in 1693. Scale ca. 1:1,950,000. Map in French. 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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  12. Title: Carte de la Grece, ca. 1716 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de la Grece : dressée sur un grand nombre de memoires anciens et nouveaux, sur ceux de Mrs. Wheler et Tournefort, sur les observations astronomiques de Mr. Vernon, du P. Feuillée Minime & c. It was published by: Chez l'Auteur sur le Quai de l'Horloge ca. 1716. Scale approximately 1:2,500,000. Map in French. 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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  13. Title: A new map of Denmark and Sweden, ca. 1730 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new map of Denmark and Sweden : according to ye newest and most exact observations. It was published by: Printed for H. Moll over against Devereux Court without Temple Bar in the Strand, Iohn Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, Thomas Bowles Print & Mapseller next to the Chapter house in St. Pauls Church yard and by Philip Overton Map & Printseller near S. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet ca. 1730. Scale [ca. 1:2,700,000].. Map in English. 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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  14. Title: Coast, Northwest Africa, 1654 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: De Cust van Barbaria, Gualata, Arguyn, en Geneheo, van Capo S. Vincente tot Capo Verde, from the Frederik de Wit's untitled Dutch Sea Atlas. It was published by Frederick de Widt, inde Calverstraat by den Dam, inde 3 Crabben in 1654. Scale [ca. 1:6,000,000]. Covers the coast of northwest Africa. Map in Dutch.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) 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 cities and towns, and other points of interest.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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  15. Title: Southeast Asia, 1742 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Royaume de Siam, avec les royaumes qui luy sont tributaires, et les isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc., corriges selon les observations des six Peres Jesuites ... ; dresse et dedie a Mr. l'abbe de Dangeau par ... le Pere Coronelli, Cosmographe de la Republique de Venisse. It was published by chez Jean Baptiste Nolin in 1742. Scale [ca. 1:4,400,000]. Covers a portion of Southeast Asia including: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 48N, 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by sounding. Includes 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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  16. Title: A new map of Denmark and Sweden : according to ye newest and most exact observations.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:2,700,000 (W 0°04ʹ00ʺ--E 35°07ʹ00ʺ/N 71°21ʹ00ʺ--N 53°41ʹ00ʺ). Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: London and Ferro Island. Dedication: To His Excellency John Lord Bishop of Bristol Ld. Privy Seal and Her Majesty's first Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Utrecht. This map is Humbly Dedicated by your Excellency's most humble Servant. H: Moll Geographer. Inset (upper left): The north part of Norway, Lapland and Greenland ... This Draught taken from J. Peterson ... Five b&w vignettes pertaining to Laplanders on right side, with caption below: The Laplanders being the most remarkable people in Europe; it will not be amiss to give a scheach of their manner of living ... Note (to upper left of title cartouche): The double line from Upsal to Torne shews ye rout King Charles ye XI, and his mathematicians took Anno 1694 in making their observations, which are carefully inserted here with many other remarks left to ye curious to observe. 1 map : color ; 60 x 100 centimeter on sheet 63 x 107 centimeter Scale approximately 1:2,700,000 General Map Collection

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  17. Title: Tabula topographica Athenarum veterum et novarum

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. In upper right-hand corner: 24. Plate 24 from: Descriptio orbis antiqui in XLIV tabulis exhibita / J.D. Köhler ... Norimbergæ : Studio atque opera C. Weigelii, [1720?]

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  18. Title: Penisola Dell'Indo di qua Del Gange, E L'Isola Di Ceilan Nell'Indie Orientali

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    Summary: 3 insets:"Isola di Ceilan" ; Isoletta del Sole, ou du Soleil. Gran Baia Di Cotiari. 46 x 62 centimeters Scale not recorded. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  19. Title: America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperti fin all' Anno 1688 Piuisa nelle fue parti Secondo lo Stato presente, e Descritta dal P. Mro Coronelli M.C. Cosmografo della Serenisma Repubca di Venezia.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Dedicata All'Illmo, et Reumo Monsigr Felic Antonio Marsily, Archidiacono della Catedrale di Bologna. From: Atlantic Veneto, v.1 Title surrounded by allegorical figures with coat of arms at top. Note explaining California as an island in cartouche at lower left. 1 map on 2 sheets; 59 x 86 cm

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  20. Title: Abissinia, doue sono le fonti del Nilo : descritta secondo le relationi dè P.P. Mendez, Almeida, Païs, Lobo, e Lodulfo

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Dedicata all'. illmo. et eccmo. sig. Michele Foscarini, sauio grande e storigrafo della seren. Rep. di Venetia." Appears in the author's Atlante veneto. In Venetia, 1695. Inset: Origine, e corso del Nilo, descrito secondo l'osseruationi dè passati geografi.

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