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  1. Title: London, England, ca. 1676 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Englands glory, or, the glory of England being a new mapp of the city of London : shewing the remarkable streets, lanes, alleyes, churches, halls courts, and other places as they are now rebuilt, the which will therefore be a guide to strangers, and such as are not well acquainted herein to direct them from place to place : diverse faults y[t] are in y[e] former are in this amended, allsoe the severall figures y[t] stand up and downe in the mapp are explained in y[e] 2 tables at y[e] upper corners hereof. It was published by Robert Walton ca. 1676. Scale [ca. 1:60,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). 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, drainage, built-up areas, selected buildings pictorially, fortification, docks, parks, ground cover, and more. Includes also indexes. 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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  2. Title: Geologic map of Minnesota, Quaternary geology, S-4

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    Summary: Quaternary geology map showing interpretations of Quaternary (Pleistocene [glacial] and Holocene [post-glacial]) surficial geology (distribution and type of materials at the land surface), of Minnesota, scale 1:3,168,000.

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  3. Title: Roads, Catskill Mountains, New York, 1892 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Van Loan's road map of the Catskills and vicinity : all of Greene County, most of Ulster and Delaware counties, and large portions of Albany, Schoharie, Otsego, and Sullivan counties. It was published by Walton Van Loan in 1892. Scale [1:221,760]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 projection. 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 (with distances), railroads, drainage, township and county boundaries, post offices, and more. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. 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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  4. Title: Northern South America, Brazil, etc., 1762 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Terre-Ferme, Perou, Brésil, Pays de l'Amazone, par Robert de Vaugondy &c. ; gravé par E. Dussy It was published by Paris : chés l'Auteur, Quai de l'Horloge près le Pont neuf in 1762. Scale ca. 1:3,800,000. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the SAD 69 / Brazil Polyconic 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, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also names of indigenous peoples. 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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  5. Title: Carte générale du théatre de la guerre en Pologne : Corrigée et Divisée selon les Partages faits en 1772, 1793 et 1795 entre la Russie, la Prusse et l'Autriche

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    Summary: Includes a diagram of former Polish possessions.; Relief shown pictorially. 48 x 56 centimeters Scale [1:2,500,000] General Map Collection

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  6. Title: Plan géométral de Paris et de ses fauxbourgs

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Plate 117 from: Atlas universel / par Robert ... et par Robert de Vaugondy son fils ... corrigé et augmenté de la carte de la République française divisée en départemens par C.F. Delamarche ... A Paris : chez Delamarche, [1783-99] Inset: Département de la Seine.

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  7. Title: La Judée depuis le retour de la captivité, et particulierment sous Herode le Grand et ses enfans, tems de N.S. Jesus-Christ : supplement a l'Atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondi

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Longitude from Ferro shown on map. Longitude computed from Greenwich. Title cartouche shows the miraculous catch of fish. Insets: La Judée sous la domination des Turcs faisant actuellement partie de la Syrie -- Plan de Jérusalem moderne sous la domination des Turcs - - Plan de Jérusalem du tems de N.S.J.C.

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  8. Title: Carte des environs de la Mer Noire oú se trouvent l'Ukrayne, la Petite Tartarie et les confins de la Russie Européen, et de la Turquie

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    Summary: Prime meridian: Ferro.; Hand colored. 48 x 63 centimeters Scale 1:2,500,000 General Map Collection

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  9. Title: Amérique ou Indes Occidentales

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Re-edition of 1749 L'Amérique Septentrionale et Méridionale. Engraved by: Delahaye l'ainé. Cartouche designed and engraved by: Arrivet. Table to right of map provides information on the different countries of the two continents.

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  10. Title: Royaume de Hongrie, Principauté de Transilvanie, Sclavonie, Croatie et partie de la Principauté de Valaquie, de la Bosnie, de la Servie et de la Bulgarie

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Ornamental cartouche. Scale [1:1,450,000] General Map Collection

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  11. Title: Partie de l'Amérique septentrionale : qui comprend le cours de l'Ohio, la Nlle. Angleterre, la Nlle York, le New Jersey, la Pensylvanie, le Maryland, la Virginie, la Caroline

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Inset "Supplément pour la Caroline." "Avec privilège 1755." "Groux engraved for Robert de Vaugondy 1758-76"--Tooley. Covers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. Shows provinces, counties, towns and cities, rivers, Indian villages and tribal territory, and forts. Later version of a map originally appearing in the author's Atlas universal. 1757 [i.e. 1758].

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  12. Title: La Judée ou Terre Sainte, divisée en ses douze Tribus

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege, 1750." Probably issued in: Atlas universel / par M. Robert ... et par M. Robert de Vaugondy son fils ... Paris : Chez les auteurs, quay de l'Horloge du Palais, Boudet libraire imprimeur du roi, ruë St. Jacques, 1757. Includes inset: Carte de la terre de Canaan ou Terre Promise, à Abraham, et à sa posterité ... / par le Sr. Robert. Cartouche signed: Groux.

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  13. Title: Carte des royaumes d'Espagne et de Portugal dans laquelle sont tracées les routes des postes

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    Summary: Pictorial relief. Appears in Vaugondy's Atlas universal ... Paris : chez les auteurs ; Boudet, 1757-[1758].

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  14. Title: Carte de l'Italie dans laquelle sont traceés les routes des postes

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege." Illustrated cartouche. From: Atlas universel / par M. Robert ... et par M. Robert de Vaugondy son fils ... Paris : chez les auteurs, quay de l'Horloge du Palais, Boudet libraire imprimeur du roi, ruë St. Jacques, 1757.

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  15. Title: Partie de l'Amérique septent? qui comprend la Nouvelle France ou le Canada

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    Summary: Hand colored.; Relief shown pictorially.; Inset: Supplement pour les Lacs du Canada.; On verso: 103. 48 x 59 centimeters Scale approximately 1:4,000,000 General Map Collection

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  16. Title: Environs de Paris

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. From his : Atlas universel, 1757.

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  17. Title: Mappemonde, ou, Description du globe terrestre [cartographic material] : dres??e fur les memoires les plus nouveaux, et assujettie aux observations astronomiques / par Robert de Vaugondy, fils.

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    Summary: Restored from the original by Editio Totius Mundi, Vienna.;Facsimile of the 1752 ed., published by Robert de Vaugondy.;Scale not given. Relief shown by shading. "No. 2102.";2 maps, colored;63 x 85 cm., each 35 cm. in diameter

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  18. Title: Le royaume de Pologne: divisé en ses duchés et provinces, et subdivisé en Palatinats; Par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy.

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    Summary: Ornamental title. In Atlas universel, 1757. 1 map: hand col.; 47 x 52 cm.

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  19. Title: Orbis vetus in utrâque continente: juxta mentem Sansonianam distinctus, nec non observationibus astronomicis redactus, accurante; Robert de Vaugondy, geographo regis ordinario.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Includes two latin inscriptions about the author and mapseller. Also includes a decorative cartouche framed by an angel and two cherubs. A decorative cartouche frames the "Monitum." [In Atlas universal, Paris, 1752. Map no. 1.] 1 map: hand col.; 48 x 72 cm.

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  20. Title: L'empire de la Chine : dressé d'aprés les cartes de l'atlas chinois

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.; From His Atlas universel, 1749-1792.; On verso: Chine, 98. 47 x 51 centimeters Scale approximately 1:6,000,000 General Map Collection

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