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  1. Title: Regionis Biturgium exactiss: descriptio, 1584 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Regionis Biturgium exactiss: descriptio. It was published by: A. Ortelius in 1584. Scale approximately 1:500,000. 10 leucarum Gallicarum [= 8 cm]. Map in English. 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.

  2. Title: Hollandiae antiquorum catthorum sedis nova descriptio

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    Summary: From: Theatrum, oder, Schawbuch des Erdtkreys ... In Antorff [Antwerp] : Bey Christoffel Plantin, in Verlegung Abraham Örtell, 1580. Relief shown pictorially. Text in German on verso with caption title: Hollandt; p. 34.

  3. Title: Frisia antiquissima trans Rhenum provincia cum adiacentibus regionibus

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire.

  4. Title: Geldriae, Cliuiae, Iuliae, necnon aliarum region adiacentium

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    Summary: Map of Gelderland and the duchies of Kleve and Jülich, with parts of adjoining territories. Relief shown pictorially. Coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire.

  5. Title: Brabantiae Belgarum provinciae recens exactaque descriptio

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Title below upper neat line: Brabantia. Map of Brabant, the northern part of which is now the southern Netherlands and the southern part of which is northern Belgium, showing towns, roads, rivers and canals. Based on map by van Deventer (cf. Tooley, R.V. Maps in Italian atlases of the sixteenth century, p. 24). "Ex Pontificis Max. ac Veneti senatus in proximum decennium priuilegio." Coats of arms of Charles V, Brabant and Holland.

  6. Title: Chinae, olim sinarum regionis, nova descriptio; auctore Ludovico Georgio.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Includes ill. and decorative cartouches. On verso: La China, p. 118. From Ortellius' Theatrum orbis terrarum. 1 map: hand col.; 35 x 45 cm.

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