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  1. Title: Tabula geographica generalis Imperii Russici ad normam novissimarum observationum astronomicarum concinnata (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Russia (1776). This map shows the Russian Empire stretching from Europe east to the Aleutian Islands off North America. The original map and this image are from the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. The georectifed map images are part of the David Rumsey Map Collection.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.

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  2. Title: Munich, 1812 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Umgebungen von München : herausgegeben auf Allerhöchsten Befehl S[r] Majestät des Königs. It was published by: Statistisch Topographisches Bureau in 1812. Scale ca. 1:5,000. 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 32N (EPSG: 32632) 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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  3. Title: Theatrum belli in America Septentrionali.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.; [Ferro].;Date of publication from Tooley, R.V. Tooley's Dict. of mapmakers.;1 map, colored;55 x 78 cm.;ca. 1:3,000,000

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  4. Title: Tabula geographica hemisphærii australis ad emendatiora quæ adhuc prodierunt exempla

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    Summary: Map of southern hemisphere with an imaginary line joining Tasmania to New Guinea. Relief shown pictorially. In right hand corner: 4 Hemisphaerium Australe. Publisher's ink stamp in lower right-hand corner. From: Atlas geographicus omnes orbis terrarum regiones in XLI tabulis exhibens ... / cjussu Academiae Regiae Scient. et Eleg. Litt. Boruss. ad emendatiora ... descriptus ... Berolini : ex officina Michaelis, 1753. Prime meridian: Ferro. Preface to Atlas geographicus by Leonhard Euler.

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  5. Title: South America, 1825 (Image 2 of 2) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: General-Charte von Sud-America = Carte generale de L'Amerique Meridionale : en deux grandes feuilles. d'apres les observations et les cartes speciales, rapportees du Voyage dans l'interieur du Bresil, pendant les annees 1817-1820..., par les Docteurs de Spix et de Martius, Chevaliers de L'Ordre civil de la Couronne de Baviere, membres de L'Academie Royale de Munich ; gestochen von Joh. Bapt. Seitz, Kupferstecher im topographischen Bureau des Kon. baier. General-Quartiermeister Stab. It was published by [M. Lindauer] in 1825. Scale [ca. 1:7,000,000]. This layer is image 2 of 2 total images of the two sheet source map, representing the northern portion of the map. Map in German and French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the South America Lambert Conformal Conic 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, roads, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures.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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  6. Title: South America, 1825 (Image 1 of 2) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: General-Charte von Sud-America = Carte generale de L'Amerique Meridionale : en deux grandes feuilles. d'apres les observations et les cartes speciales, rapportees du Voyage dans l'interieur du Bresil, pendant les annees 1817-1820..., par les Docteurs de Spix et de Martius, Chevaliers de L'Ordre civil de la Couronne de Baviere, membres de L'Academie Royale de Munich ; gestochen von Joh. Bapt. Seitz, Kupferstecher im topographischen Bureau des Kon. baier. General-Quartiermeister Stab. It was published by [M. Lindauer] in 1825. Scale [ca. 1:7,000,000]. This layer is image 1 of 2 total images of the two sheet source map, representing the southern portion of the map. Map in German and French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the South America Lambert Conformal Conic 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, roads, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures.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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  7. Title: Havana, Cuba, 1762 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A plan of the Havana and its environs : with several posts and attacks made by the British forces under the command of the Earl of Albemarle and Sr. Geo. Pocock which was taken 13 Aug. 1762, Ths. Kitchin sculpt. engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of York. It was published by J. Boydell engraver in Cheapside & R. Willcock bookseller in Cornhill, Novr. 1st 1762. Scale [ca. 1:24,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'NAD 1927 Cuba Norte' 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 associated with the British Siege of Havana, 1762, such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, lines of fire, troop placement, ship locations, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by hachures; Depths are shown by soundings. Includes indexes for: References to the Moro -- Attack on the Moro -- References to the Town and Harbour -- Attack on the Town and Defences of that Side.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: Plans of the old & new city of Peking ye. metropolis of China

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    Summary: In upper right-hand corner: Vol. 2. Page 962. Indexed for points of interest. From: Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca ... / John Harris. -- London : T. Woodward, 1744-1748.

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  9. Title: A prospect of the city of Genoa

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    Summary: Bird's-eye view of Genoa, Italy; relief shown pictorially. In upper right-hand corner: Vol. II. page 584. Indexed for points of interest. From: Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca ... / John Harris. -- London : T. Woodward, 1744-1748.

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  10. Title: The Gallapagos Islands : discovered and described by Capt. Cowley in 1684

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. In upper right-hand corner: Vol. 1. Page 79. From: Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca ... / John Harris. -- London : T. Woodward, 1744-1748.

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  11. Title: A plan of the city of Canton on the river Ta ho

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    Summary: Bird's-eye view of Canton, now Guangzou, China; relief shown pictorially. In upper right-hand corner: Vol. 1. pa. 359. Indexed for points on interest. From: Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca ... / John Harris. -- London : T. Woodward, 1744-1748.

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  12. Title: Le royaume de Siam, auec les royaumes qui luy sont tributaires, et les isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc., et les isles voisine : avec les observations des six Peres Jesuites envojez par le Roy en qualité de ses mathematiciens dans les Indes, et ä la Chine ou est aussi tracée la route qu'ils ont tenúe par le Destroit de la Sonde jusqu'ä Siam

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    Summary: Appears in:Atlas maior cum generales omnium totius orbis regnorum rerumpubl. atque insularum, tum particulares praecipuarum in iis Provinciarum, Ducatuum, Comitatuum ceterarumque minorum regionum ac divisionum tabulas geographicas continens / Collectus et ... dispositus ab Reinero Ottens. Amstelaedami : apud Viduam ac filios Ioachimi Ottens, 1719-1725. (7 v.).; Two sheets glued together, with "162" handwritten in upper left corner. sheets 58 x 69 centimeters Scale approximately 1:4,500,000 General Map Collection

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  13. Title: A new map of the English Empire in the Ocean of America or West Indies

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    Summary: West Indies--Maps

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  14. Title: A new map of Michigan with its canals, roads & distances

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Relief shown by hachures. From Tanner, H.S. A new universal atlas. Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, 1842. No. 29. Prime meridian: Washington. Includes table of steamboat routes. Scale approximately 1:2,050,000

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  15. Title: Map of the surveyed part of the territory of Michigan

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of eastern Michigan showing township and range lines for surveyed areas. Covers area north and west to Saginaw County, and south and east to border. Notes: Prime meridian: Washington. Scale 1:253,440. 4 miles to an inch

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  16. Title: Etats-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale avec les isles Royale, de Terre Neuve, de St. Jean, l'Acadie & c 1785

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Printed from same plate as Delamarche imprint but with change of publisher and addition below title of: Supplément à l'atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondy. Prime meridians: Isle de Fer and Paris. Includes table at lower right giving populations of individual states. Scale 1:7,500,000

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  17. Title: [Europe as a woman].

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    Summary: Map of Europe in the form of a woman, with her head facing Africa and labled as Hispania and the bottom of the woman's dress labled as Greece, Bulgaria, and Scythia. Relief shown pictorially. Text in German. Title provided by cataloger. Detached sheet, p. xxxix-xlii, from book with running title: Das Ander Buch der Cosmography. Date from dealer's catalog. Oriented with north to the right. Includes text. On verso: Text and 1 ill. From Münster's "Cosmographia". 1 map; 26 x 17 cm., on sheet 33 x 42 cm., folded to 33 x 22 cm.

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  18. Title: Americae mappa generalis: secundum legitimas projectionis stereographicae regulas relationesque recentissimas et observationes socioru Acad. reg. sc quoe Parisiis ...; nunc concinata et delineata ab Aug. Gottl. Boehmio.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Decorative cartouche includes 4 Native Americans in their local costumes. Two hold hunting materials and food while two volcanoes erupt in the background. 1 map: col.; 46.6 x 53.3 cm.

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  19. Title: L'Amerique Septentrionale dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie royale des sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens; par G. de L'Isle, geographe; N. Guerard, im. et fec.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege du Roy pour 20 ans." Second state of first ed. according to The Map Collector, 26:2-6. 1st State has Mississippi River entering Gulf near Galveston. Includes "Avertissement and decorative cartouche." 1 map: hand col.; 43 x 61 cm.

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  20. Title: L'Amerique Septentrionale: dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie royale des sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens; par G. de L'Isle, geographe; N. Guerard, im. et fec.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege du Roy pour 20 ans." Fourth state of first ed. according to Burden, includes the phrase, "Se trouve a Amsterdam chez L. Renard Libraire prz [sic] de la Bourse". Includes "Avertissement and decorative cartouche." 1 map: hand col.; 43 x 61 cm.

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