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  1. Title: World at one view

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    Summary: Double hemispherical world map with outline color; maps and texts within an ornamental border. Relief shown by hachures. Includes population tables and illustrations showing heights of mountains, lengths of rivers, "Female Costumes of the Different Parts of the World," settlements, etc. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by H. Phelps, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the southern district of New York." At head of title: Panoramic view of the route to China, by the Oregon railroad and the Pacific Ocean. This road once built, would become the great highway of nations.

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  2. Title: Map of the city of New York, with the latest improvements

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    Summary: "Corrected to 1831." "Entered according to act of Congress the 1st day of July 1830, by Humphrey Phelps of the State of New York." Includes references to points of interest. Covers Manhattan south of 34st St. Shows streets, selected public buildings, and piers. Issued in cover (13 x 8 cm.) with title: N. York City.

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  3. Title: Traveller's map of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana & Ohio

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    Summary: Counties shown in colors. Prime meridian : [Washington]. 'Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1836 by Humphrey Phelps & Bela S. Squire Jr. in the Clerks office in the district court of the southern district of New York.' Insets: Part of Michigan -- Wisconsin Ter'y. -- Missouri. Accompanied by text: Traveller's guide & emigrant's directory, through the states of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. 1 sheet; 44x57 cm folded in binding; 15 cm. Includes 'Table of population.' Scale approximately 1:1,900,000. Drawn & engraved by J.T. Hammond.

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  4. Title: Manhattan, New York, N.Y., 1857 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: New York city map. It was published by J. Miller ca. 1857. Scale not given. Covers Manhattan below 131st St. and adjacent portions of Queens, Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Hoboken. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 projection. 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, railroads, ferry lines, drainage, parks, city wards, fire districts, wharves, selected public buildings, and more. Shows also radial distances from City Hall. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes indexes. 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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  5. Title: Manhattan, New York, N.Y., 1844 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the city of New York with the adjacent cities of Brooklyn and Jersey City, and the village of Williamsburg, drawn & engraved by Story & Atwood. It was published by H. Phelps in 1844. Scale [ca. 1:14,000]. Covers Manhattan below 32nd St. and portions of Brooklyn and Jersey City. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 projection. 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, city wards, fire districts, selected public buildings, ferry lines, wharves, radial distances from City Hall, and more. Includes insets: Jersey City -- Northern part of New York island. 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: Kaei kaisei shinsen Kyō ezu gazu genkō Morikawa Yasuyuki.

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    Summary: Mounted cover title. Wood block print. Oriented with north to the left. In Japanese. Relief shown pictorially. Includes legend. Proofread by Haga Shunsui. 1 map: col.; 48 x 67 cm.,folded in cover 18 x 12 cm.

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  7. Title: Spain and Portugal

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: No. 23. Faint image of illegible text visible below neat line; removed from engraving plate used for a previous issue, probably the issue of 12th Dec. 1815 engraved by S.I. Neele. Probably issued in: A new general atlas ... Edinburgh : Printed for John Thomson & Co., 1821.

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  8. Title: Europe; J. & G. Menzies sculpt.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Greenwich prime meridian. Bar scales in British statute miles, Common French leagues and German, Dutch & Polish miles. "No. 8" from Thomson's new general atlas. 1 map: hand col.; 43 x 51 cm

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  9. Title: Japan, 1876 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: ????????? : ? [Fuken kaisei Dai Nihon zenzu : zen], Sekiguchi Bisho shu. It was published by Kobayashi Shinb?, Nakamura Nakamura Kumajir? in Meiji 9 [1876]. Scale: 1:100,000. Map in Japanese.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Asia North Lambert Conformal Conic 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, roads, administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes 3 island insets: Hokkaid?, Ry?ky? shot?, and Ogasawara gunt?; and 6 additional insets: Owari Nagoya, Rikuzen Sendai, Aki Hiroshima, and Higo Kumamoto.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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  10. Title: Hindoostan; or India:

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    Summary: Scale of statute miles 69 7/2 to a degree. 36 x 35 centimeters, on sheet 44 x 54 centimeters Scale 1:4,403,520; Scale of statute miles 69 7/2 to a degree Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  11. Title: Africa : drawn from the best authorities for the illustration of Lavoisne's genealogical, historical chronological & geographical atlas, 1813

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.; Includes textual material about Africa's climate, produce, history, islands, and a geographical description.; Prime meridian: London.; In upper right corner: "No. 63."; "Printed by J. Barfield ... printer to His Royal Highness ..." 29 x 31 centimeters, on sheet 44 x 55 centimeters Scale approximately 1:19,000,000 General Map Collection

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  12. Title: Hōgaku kaisei gokinai shōran

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    Summary: 1 map ; 90 x 85 cm, folded in cover 23 x 15 cm. Mounted cover title. Wood block print. In Japanese. Oriented with north to the left. Engraved by Inoue Jihei and Okada Mohei. Includes legend, distance chart, and list of districts in the five provinces. Includes list of 33 temples of the Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage and total distance of the pilgrimage route. Shows distances between pilgrimage points, roads and sea routes.

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  13. Title: Kosui ura meguri meisho jisha benran zuseki (湖水浦廻り名所寺社便覧圖跡)

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    Summary: 1 map : color ; on sheet 88 x 142 cm folded in cover 26 x 18 cm folded in case 27 x 19 cm Cover title: Saiken shimpō Ōmi no Kuni ōezu : zen. Title on label on case: Ōmi no Kuni ōezu. Wood block print. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and distance chart.

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  14. Title: Primer mapa conocido de Espaéa

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    Summary: Spain--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles

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  15. Title: Tabula Asiae X.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Ptolemy's Geographia universalis, 1540 edition, revised & edition by Sebastian M ünster. Latin text and page no. on verso: Asiae X. tabula ... 26. This map summarizes Ptolemaic cartography of India and part of Bangladesh. It was the tenth in a sequence of 12 maps of Asia as described by the 2nd century Egyptian cartographer, Claudius Ptolemy. 24 x 32 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  16. Title: Octava Asie tabula

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    Summary: Trapezoidal map of Central Asia and China. Relief shown pictorially. Includes names of places and natural features. In margin: latitudinal notes. From: Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, emaculatus : cum tabulis veteribus ac nouis. [Strassburg] : Ioannes Scotus, Argentorati literis exce[r]pit, 1520. Martin Waldseemüller "edited an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, Strasbourg, Johannes Schott 1513 ... not credited to Waldseemüller although he compiled a special supplement of 20 modern maps of 'tabulae novae' to accompany it."--Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

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  17. Title: Mapa universal de Ptolomeo (S. II) Impreso en Roma en 1490

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    Summary: Scale not given; 1 map: color; sheet 36 x 50 cm World maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles

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  18. Title: The world

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    Summary: "Insculptum est per Iohan[n]e Schnitzer de Armszheim". Map from the 4th edition of Ptolemy's Cosmographia, printed by Leinhart Holle at Ulm in 1482. Woodcuts by Johannes Schnitzer. Title supplied by cataloger.

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  19. Title: Toulon oder Tolon, 1730-1740 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Toulon oder Tolon. It was published by: G. Bodenehr excudit between 1730 and 1740. Scale not given. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 UTM Zone 31N (EPSG: 32631) 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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  20. Title: Die Rheede oder Anfahrth von Toulon, ca. 1740 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Die Rheede oder Anfahrth von Toulon. It was published by: G. Bodenehr exc ca. 1740. Scale not given. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 UTM Zone 31N (EPSG: 32631) 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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