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  1. Title: Nveva Hispania tabvla nova. Descrittione dell'America. Libro Quarto. (to accompany) Geographia di Clavdio Tolomeo alessandrino, tradotta di Greco nell'idioma volgare Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli ... In Venetia, MDXCIX (1599) Appresso gli heredi di M. Sessa. (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of an engraved map of New Spain from 1599. Showing the southern United States, including Texas and Florida and Mexico and Central America. California is a peninsula and in the vicinity of the Colorado River flows the R. Tontonteanc, with place names, showing Sier Anevada (Sierra Nevada). Relief shown pictorially. The original map appears in "Geographia di Clavdio Tolomeo alessandrino, tradotta di Greco nell'idioma volgare Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli ; et hora nuouamente ampliata da Gioseffo Rosaccio, con varie annotationi, & espositioni, & tauole di rame ... ; et vna geografia vniuersale del medesimo, separata da quella di Tolomeo ... ; et vna breue descrittione di tutta la terra, distinta in quattro libri ... ; con due indici copiosissimi di tutto quello, che di notabile si contiene nell opera. Conlicentia, et privilegio. In Venetia, MDXCIX (1599) Appresso gli heredi di M. Sessa" The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

  2. Title: Africa nuova tavola

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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.

  3. Title: Calecut nuova tavola

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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.

  4. Title: India tercera nuova tavola

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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.

  5. Title: Natolia nuova tavola

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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.

  6. Title: Tabula Europae X

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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.

  7. Title: Carta marina nuova tavola

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    Summary: World map with relief shown pictorially. From: La geografia de Claudio Tolomeo ... Nuovamente tradotto di Greco in Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli ... In Venetia ... Vincenzo Valgrisi MDLXI.

  8. Title: Orbis descriptio

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Latin text on verso. From: La geografia de Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino / nuovamente tradotto di Greco in Italiano ... In Venetia : Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561.

  9. Title: Vicariati apostolici nella China e regni adiacenti.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 73°--E 147°/N 55°--N 18°). Relief shown by hachures. Map showing the boundaries of Catholic dioceses in China in the 1850s. Probably Tav. CVII from: L'orbe cattolico ossia Atlante geografico storico ecclesiastico / [opera del commendatore Girolamo Petri]. Roma : Tipografia della reverenda Camera apostolica, 1858-1859 48 x 63 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

  10. Title: Vicariati e prefetture apostoliche nelle Indie Orientali.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 58°--E 110°/N 33°--N 1°). Relief shown by hachures. Map showing the boundaries of Catholic dioceses in South and Southeast Asia in the 1850s. Probably Tav. CIII from: L'orbe cattolico ossia Atlante geografico storico ecclesiastico / [opera del commendatore Girolamo Petri]. Roma : Tipografia della reverenda Camera apostolica, 1858-1859. 48 x 63 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

  11. Title: Provincia ecclica di Goa e vicariati aplici nel Dekkan

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Map showing the boundaries of Catholic dioceses in Southern India in the 1850s.; Probably Tav. CV from: L'orbe cattolico ossia Atlante geografico storico ecclesiastico / [opera del commendatore Girolamo Petri]. Roma : Tipografia della reverenda Camera apostolica, 1858-1859. 48 x 63 centimeters Scale not given General Map Collection

  12. Title: Russia Asiatica.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 80°--E 120°/N 30°--N 1°).Relief shown by hachures.Map showing the boundaries of Catholic dioceses in Russia in the 1850s. Probably Tav. CI from: L'orbe cattolico ossia Atlante geografico storico ecclesiastico / [opera del commendatore Girolamo Petri]. Roma : Tipografia della reverenda Camera apostolica, 1858-1859. 48 x 63 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

  13. Title: Vicariati apostolici nell' India-Transgangetica

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 80°--E 120°/N 30°--N 1°). Relief shown by hachures. Map showing the boundaries of Catholic dioceses in Southeast Asia in the 1850s. Probably Tav. CVI from: L'orbe cattolico ossia Atlante geografico storico ecclesiastico / [opera del commendatore Girolamo Petri]. Roma : Tipografia della reverenda Camera apostolica, 1858-1859. 48 x 63 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

  14. Title: Vicariati e prefetture apostoliche nell' Indostan

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 60°--E 93°/N 33°--N 20°). Relief shown by hachures. Map showing the boundaries of Catholic dioceses in Northern India in the 1850s. Probably Tav. CIV from: L'orbe cattolico ossia Atlante geografico storico ecclesiastico / [opera del commendatore Girolamo Petri]. Roma : Tipografia della reverenda Camera apostolica, 1858-1859. 48 x 63 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

  15. Title: Thusciae descriptio

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Cum priuilegio." Text in German on verso with caption title: Tuscia; p. 66. Probably issued in: Theatrum oder Schawbüch der Erdtkreÿs. In Antorff [Antwerp] : Bey Christoffel Plantin, in Verlegung Abraham Örtell, 1580.

  16. Title: Thusciae descriptio

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Cum priuilegio." Latin text on verso with caption title: Tuscia; p. 36. Occurs in: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum / Abraham Ortelius. 1570. Historic Maps copy imperfect: left and right margins closely trimmed.

  17. Title: La Toscana

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Tusciæ elegantioris Italiæ partis Corographium descripsimus atque ita guidem ut nihil amplius in ea desiderari possit. Vale. 1558."

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