Asiae : nova delineatio / auctore N. Visscher

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  Nova et accurata Brasiliae totius tabula / auctore Joanne Blaeu I.F

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  Kashnor dates as ca. 1660. Van der Krogt identifies this as his 9850:2C, which appeared in Joan Blaeu's 1662-1665 Atlas Maior (2:601). Cartouche: Putti with produce. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Milliarium. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Db. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 881.

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  A New Map of Asia

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  Kashnor notes, "One of the earliest English maps. It shows the Philippines and the passage by North-west America as Strait of Uries in latitude 48." Kashnor dates as ca. 1675. Cartouche: Russian and Asian men. Coat of arms of East India Co.. "To the Right Worshipfull the Governor Deputy and Committees of the Honble. EastIndia Company This new map of Asia, according to the best and latest Observations and Discoveries is most humbly Presented and Dedicated by John Ogilby Esq., His Majesties Cosmographer." Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: LM Shield. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 749.

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  Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula / auctore Joanne Blaeu

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows California as an island, and places "Anian" considerably to the north. A fascinating old map of the early decorative type." This map is a variant of Blaeu's 1662 map, Kashnor dates as 1667. Van der Krogt dates between 1662 and 1672. Map can be seen in situ in RB 74701. Surrounded by artwork, allegorical figures. MS note: C26. Folder contains reproduction as well. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Relief: no. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Van der Krogt, map 0001:2B ; Shirley, map 428.

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  This Map of South America, According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations is most humbly Dedicated by Your Lordship's most humble servant, Herman Moll Geographer

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  View of Potosi, rant by Moll against French mapmakers. See 093:629 for another copy. Cartouche: Volcano's exploding, natives, coat of arms. Vignette: Potosi, with description of mining operations. Moll's tirade against DeLisle's map.. "To the Right Honorouble Charles, Earl of Sunderland, and Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; &ca." "B. Lens delim G. Vertue Sculp." Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Azimuthal. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 862.

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  A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans. Dedicated to his Highness William Duke of Gloucester

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows all the American Continent, with the North-West Coast reaching above California, which is represented as an island." On North America, "This Continent with the adjoining Islands is generally supposed to have been Anciently unknown thought there are not wanting some, who will have even the Continent its self to be no other than the Insula Atlantis of the Ancients." Kashnor dates as 1698, Shirley dates 1700-01. This is the first world map in Wells' atlas, see also 093:047M for another copy. 093:198M is the second similar map from the same atlas, per Shirley. Folder contains reproduction copy. Cartouche of Britannia and coat-of-arms. Vignette of Radcliffe Camera of Oxford, student and teacher, sailing ships at new lands. . Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Watermark: WAH. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettes. References: Shirley 608, BM Maps, Vol. 15, col 33 38e.1; Phillips 531; Wagner 467..

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