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.
Contains extensive place name detail as well as considerable text and routes referring to the various British expeditions in the Northwest Passage area.
Creator:
Arrowsmith, John
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.