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  1. Title: Nieuwe kaart van Choromandel ende Malabar

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:2,300,000 ; (E 72°17'00"--E 84°50'00"/N 19°00'00"--N 8°00'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Date from previous call number. Shows southern India and northern Sri Lanka. In Dutch. 50 x 58 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,300,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  2. Title: Nieuwe Kaart van het Eyland Japan, 1724-1726 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nieuwe Kaart van het Eyland Japan. It was published by: J. van Braam et G. onder de Linden Amsterdam between 1724 and 1726. Scale ca. 1:2,500,000. Map in Dutch. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 World Mercator (EPSG: 3395) 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: Carte de L'Isle de Ceylan

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:1,250,000 (E 78°30'--E 82°30'/N 10°30'--5°30'). Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by soundings. Primemeridian: Ferro. Bar scales given in"lieues marines de France et d'Angleterre,""lieues marines d'Espagne," and"lieues communes d'Allemagne". Watermark. 40.1 x 55 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,250,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  4. Title: Carte particuliere du fleuve Saint Louis dressée sur les lieux avec les noms des sauvages du pais, des marchandises qu'on y porte &qu'on en reçoit & des animaux, insectes poissons, oiseaux, arbres & fruits des parties septentrioes & méridiones de ce pais.

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    Summary: Photostatic copy. Map bordered by tables listing Indian nations and animals of Canada. Chatelain copy of Lahontan's 1703 map of Canada. Above neat line at right: Tom VI. no. 21 pag: 90. Copy 2 in: Chatelain, Zacharias. Atlas historique ..., [1708-1720], vol. 6, p. 90. 1 map: photostat; 32 x 37 cm.

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  5. Title: La France : divisée par provinces et en ses trente deux gouvernemens militaires

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Isle de Corse. Includes "Table des XXXII gouvernemens de France et des Provinces qu'ils renferment, avec leur capitale." Felix Delamarche worked with Charles Dien from 1819-1820. cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

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  6. Title: Presqu'isle des Indes Orientales, comprenant l'Indostan ou Empire du Mogol, différens royaumes ou états, les vastes possessions des Anglais, et les autres établissemens européens, avec les grandes routes : supplément a l'atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondi

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.; Depths shown by soundings.; Scale: Lieues d'une heure de 20 au Dégré.; Prime meridians: Ile de Fer (El Hierro), Paris.; Inset: Entrée du Gange et son cours en remontant jusqu'a Ugli (approximately 1:1,110,000, 22 x 15 cm).; Title cartouche is bordered with color drawings of flowers, sea grasses, and shells.; Includes a decorative illustration of an elephant, trees, and a building below the title cartouche.; Hand colored.; Includes information about the Ganges River. 45 x 61 Centimeters, on sheet 56 x 75 Centimeters Scale: approximately 1: 7,500,000. General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Candia, olim Creta

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. In upper margin: De l'isle de Crete ou Candie. 294-295. On verso: De l'Isle de Crete à present Candie, Antiquité & noms d'icelle, & comme elle est tombee soubs la Seigneurie des Venitiens. Chaptire XXXIII. From: La cosmographie vniuerselle de tout le monde ... Autour en partie Munster, mais beaucoup plus augmentée, ornée & enrichie, par Francois de Belle-Forest ... Paris : Chez M. Sonnius, 1575.

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  8. Title: La ville de Londres : Londinum feracissimi Angliae regni metropolis

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. From: La cosmographie vniverselle de tout le monde ... Autour en partie Munster, mais beaucoup plus augmentée, ornée & enrichie, par Francois de Belle-Forest ... Paris : Chez M. Sonnius, 1575. In upper left: Ceste ville se doit mettre apres le feuillet 102. Map mounted on board.

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  9. Title: A new map of antient Greece, Thrace, Moesia, Illyricum, and the isles adjoyning, 1719 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new map of antient Greece, Thrace, Moesia, Illyricum, and the isles adjoyning : dedicated to His Highness William, Duke of Glocester. It was published by: Printed at the Theater in 1719. . Map in English. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 World Mercator (EPSG: 3395) 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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  10. Title: Paris, France, 1887 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la ville de Paris en 1789, ce plan a ete dresse sous la direction de M.M. Armand Renauld inspecteur en chef des Beaux Arts et des Travaux Historiques, Hochereau conservatoeur du plan de Paris par Lucien Faucou, sous-conservateur de la Bibliotheque et des Collections Historiques de la ville de Paris: collaborateurs M.M. Laporte dessinateur, Bibert, dessinateur, Bizard, geom`etre, Wuhrer graveur, Sulpis graveur : Ce plan a ete execute conformement de la decision pris par le Counsil Municipal. It was published by Conseil Municipal 30 Dec. 1887. Scale [ca. 1:10,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 31N 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 roads, bridges, drainage, quays, built-up areas and selected buildings, churches, parks, gardens, election district boundaries, and more. Relief is shown by form lines. Includes table of election districts.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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  11. Title: Coasts, Mediterranean Sea Region, 1763 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de la mer Mediterranee : appuyee sur les observations astronomiques, combinees avec les itineraires anciens et modernes, par M. Bonne, Mtre. de Mathemat., Membre de la Societe literaire militaire, Ingenieur-Geographe. It was published by Chez Lattre in 1763. Scale [ca. 1:6,000,000]. Covers Mediterranean Sea region, part of the Black Sea, and coasts of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical 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, shoreline features, and more.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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  12. Title: Les royaumes de Suéde, de Danemark et de Norwege

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.; Prime meridian: Isle de Fer and Paris.; From: Bonne's Atlas encyclopédique : contenant la géographie ancienne, et quelques cartes sur la géographie du moyen age ..., volume 2, page 79. 34 x 24 centimeters Scale approximately 1:6,500,000 General Map Collection

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  13. Title: Carte de l'Isle O-Taïti

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and soundings. Includes insets: Baye Matavai, dans O-Taïti -- Plan des havres, situés au côté nord d'Eimeo -- Carte des Marquises de Mendoce. In upper left corner: Cook 1er. voyage. In upper right corner: 125. Probably issued in: Atlas encyclopédique / R. Bonne and N. Desmaret. A Paris : Hôtel de Thou, 1787-1788.

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  14. Title: Carte de la rivière de Cook, dans la partie n.o. de l'Amérique

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially and by soundings. Also shows route of Cook's 3rd voyage. Drawn by: Bonne fils. Engraved by: André. Includes inset: Plan du havre de Samganoodha, dans l'isle de Oonalaska. Above neat line at left: Cook, 3e. voyage. Above neat line at right: 126. Probably issued in: Atlas encyclopédique / R. Bonne and N. Desmarest. A Paris : Hôtel de Thou, 1787-1788.

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  15. Title: Carte des Isles des Amis

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    Summary: Map of the Isles des Amis [i.e. Friendly Islands] in the Tongan Island group. The map includes insets of a chart of Tongatapu Bay and other islands within this group. Decorative features include a compass star and a fleur de lis indicating North. Relief is shown by hachures and soundings. At upper left corner of sheet: Cook 3e. voyage. At upper right corner of sheet: 129. Insets: Plan du havre de Tongataboo -- Mangeea I. -- Toobouai I. -- Wateeoo I. Probably issued in: Atlas encyclopédique / R. Bonne and N. Desmarest. A Paris : Hôtel de Thou, 1787-1788.

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  16. Title: Carte des Isles de la Societé

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    Summary: Copper engraved map of the western Society Islands known today as Maupiti, Bora Bora, Tahaa, Raiatea, and Huahine. Four inset maps to upper right and lower left corners, three of bays on the islands and a fourth of the principal bay on Christmas Island. Decorative features include a large compass rose. Relief is shown by barymetric soundings and reefs. In upper left margin: Cook 1er. voyage. In upper right margin: 127. Probably issued in: Atlas encyclopédique / R. Bonne and N. Desmaret. A Paris : Hôtel de Thou, 1787-1788.

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  17. Title: L'ancien et le nouveau Méxique, avec la Floride et la basse Louisiane: partie occidentale; par M. Bonne.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris, de Fer. Top margin: "Longitude du Méridien de l'Ille de Fer." Bottom margin: "Longitude du Méridien de Paris." In margin at upper right: 117. In margin at lower right: "Andre sculp." Rigobert Bonne's Atlas Supplement was publishedin Paris in 1787. 1 map: colored; 35 x 24 cm

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  18. Title: Nlle. Galles Mérid.le [i.e. Nouvelle Galles Méridionale], ou, Côte orientale de la Nouvelle Hollande

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    Summary: Plate 137 from Atlas Encyclopédique, contenant la géographie ancienne, et quelques cartes sur la géographie du Moyen Age, la géographie moderne, et les cartes relatives à la géographie physique / par M. Bonne et par M. Desmarest. [vol. 2 1788]. Vegetation and relief on some maps shown pictorially and by soundings. "Cook 1er Voyage." Main map shows track of Captain Cook's first voyage along the east coast of Australia in the Endeavour (Pt. Hicks 20 April 1770 - Cape York Aug. 1770). Van-Diemen inset shows tracks of HMS Adventure under the command of Tobias Furneaux when separated from James Cook during his second voyage in February - May 1773.

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  19. Title: Détroit de Magellan : avec les plans des principaux ports, bayes, &c. de ce détroit

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially and by soundings. Includes 16 insets. In upper margin: Voyages des Capits. Byron, Wallis et Carteret, 124. Plate 124 probaby from: Atlas encyclopédique, contenant la géographie ancienne, et quelques cartes sur la géographie du moyen age, la géographie moderne, et les cartes relatives à la géographie physique / par M. Bonne et par M. Desmarest. [Paris : Hôtel de Thou, 1787-1788].

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  20. Title: L'ancien et le nouveau Méxique avec la Floride et la basse Louisiane : partie occidentale

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. "117." Historic Maps copy is western sheet of a 2 sheet map and does not include Florida or Louisiana. Probably issued in: Atlas encyclopédique / R. Bonne and N. Desmarest. A Paris : Hôtel de Thou, 1787-1788.

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