General world map; relatively small number of coastal place names and no interior features or localities. One decorative cartouche containing title. From: The Great and newly enlarged Sea Atlas or Waterworld…"
Creator:
Keulen, Johannes van
Contributor:
Vooght, Claes Janszoon, -1696
Created:
1697
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This map is clearly based on a map published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg in 1758 which was published in England in 1761. It has features not found on the English version. It shows the American coast from California northward, and the coast of Asia from Japan northward.
Contributor:
Imperatorskai͡a akademīi͡a nauk i khudozhestv (Russia)
Created:
1765
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Cartographic Details: No scale given (W 130°--W 80°/N 76°--N 64°). Relief shown by hachures. Contains extensive place name detail as well as considerable text and routes referring to the various British expeditions in the Northwest Passage area. Presentation copy to Leut. Th. von Zeilau.
Creator:
Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873
Created:
1859
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This is the first globular map to use the term "America" in designating the continents of the New World. It was originally published to accompany Waldseemüller’s Cosmographiae introductio.
Creator:
Waldseemüller, Martin
Created:
1507
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:6,500,000. Manuscript, produced in Venice. Inscriptions in Italian (Venetian dialect) and Portuguese. On the upper border of the chart is a scale of miles which represents 400 miles. For a discussion of this chart see: Cortesão, Armando. The nautical chart of 1424. Coimbra : University of Coimbra, 1954.
Creator:
Pizzigano, Zuane
Created:
1424
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Map is known as the "Peutinger table", it represents the imperial roads and posts throughout the Roman Empire at about 250 A.D. with editions to ca. 500 A.D. 8 maps on 4 sheets.
Contributor:
Welser, Marcus, 1558-1614
Created:
1650?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Shows the eastern coast of Brazil, including some forty place names, and the coast of Africa from Morocco to the Cape of Good Hope, with about 125 place names.
Created:
1524?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
A detailed map of the Columbia River recording discoveries for about one hundred miles made by a member of George Vancouver's expedition in 1792. The account of the voyage on which the map is based can be found in Vancouver's A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean.
Includes two inset maps of the north and south poles. From: Johann David Kohler's Schul- und Reisen-Atlas aller zu Erlernung der alten ... Nurnberg, 1719.
Creator:
Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Contributor:
Weigel, Christoph, 1654-1725; Kohler, Johann David, 1684-1755
Created:
1719
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
1 hand colored map that shows midwest part of Canada and New France, later known as the upper midwest area of the United States, including the Great Lakes.
Creator:
Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
Contributor:
Nolin, Jean Baptiste, 1657-1725; Du Tralage, Jean Nicolas, -1699
Created:
1688
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
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