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1. Title: Von bestreitung der statt Constantinopel im .M.cccc.liii. iar beschehen

   • Image data
   • 1493

   Contributors:

   • Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514

   Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Plate 249 from the Nuremberg chronicle. In upper margin: Der Werlt. Blat CCXLIX. German text on verso: Das sechst alter.

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2. Title: Secunda etas mundi = Secunda etas mũdi

   • Image data
   • 1493

   Contributors:

   • Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514

   Summary: Caption title. Relief shown pictorially. Wood engravings by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurrf. Upper right: "foliũ XIII." From: Liber chronicarum, 12 July 1493. Depicts the pre-Columbus world, based on Ptolemy's Geographia. Jerusalem is at the center of the map; the Indian Ocean is an enclosed area; and Scandinavia, southern Africa and the Far East are not shown. Eastern hemisphere (Known world). Twelve winds, depicted as heads surrounding the map, are named as well as major places. A panel of seven creatures borders the left margin. On verso: three columns of Latin text with the third column bordered by a panel of seven creatures on either side; upper right: "folium XII."

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3. Title: Map showing the deposits of ores & coal in Rh. Prussia & Westphalia

   • Geological maps
   • 1873

   Contributors:

   • Hartmann, Hugh

   Summary: Other title: Map showing the deposits of ores and coal in Rhineland Prussia and Westphalia. Shows coal beds and ore deposits by period as well as railroads, blast-furnaces, and rolling mills. Detached from: Fifth annual report of the Geological Survey of Indiana, made during the year 1873. Indianapolis : Sentinel Company, Printers, 1874. Page 13. Imprint: [Indianapolis] [Geological Survey of Indiana], [1873] Dimensions: 18 x 11 cm

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

   • Not specified
   • 1630

   Contributors:

   • Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
   • Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664. Atlantis Maioris Appendix, 1630
   • Lazius, Wolfgang, 1514-1565
   • Vignaud, Henry, 1830-1922, former owner.

   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

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