Map of the Middle East and Asia including the East Indies. It features characteristic misconceptions of early 18th century cartography such as New Guinea as a peninsula of the southern continent and Iapon or Niphon [i.e. Japan] having a huge northern island called Land of Iesso [presumably the islands of Hokkaido and Sakhalin]. Relief is shown p...
Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732.
Contributor:
Cowper, Earl William, approximately 1665-1723
Created:
1715?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Title page with woodcut illustration from Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris De humani corporis fabrica libri septem ...
Creator:
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564 (author); Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568 (printer); van Calcar, Jan Stephan, 1499-1546? (illustrator)
Created:
1543
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:6,500,000 (E 65°0'--E 97°0'/N 37°30'--N 15°0'). Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Bar scales given in"mill. Germanica" and"mill. Gallica".
Creator:
Frederik de Wit, Frederik; Coávens et Mortier.
Created:
1750?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:8,500,000. Relief shown pictorially."Guill. Delahaye sculp." From Atlas universel, by Gilles & Didier Robert de Vaugondy, 1749-1792.
Creator:
de Vaugondy, Gilles Robert, 1688-1766; de Vaugondy, Didier Robert 1723-1786; Guillaume Nicholas Delahaye 1725-1802
Created:
1751
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:22,000,000."Graveá par Le Tellier." Imprint: A Paris : Ches l'auteur, quai de l'Horloge du Palais proche la rue de Harlay, 1739. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored in outline. Includes table outlining the physical and political geography of Asia.
Creator:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Contributor:
Le Tellier (engraver); de Vaugondy, Gilles Robert, 1688-1766 (publisher)
Created:
1739
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:150,000. Relief shown pictorially."Cum privilegio ordinum Hollandia et Westfrisiæ." From: Atlas minor : seu universi terrarum orbis geographicum compendium recentiffimas, & a. / Carolus Allard. Amstelodami : ex officinaô Caroli Allard, [1696?].
Cartographic Details: Scale indeterminable. Relief shown pictorially. Panel title. Page number on top right: 119. From: Atlas nouveau / Edme Mentelle. Paris, 1782. Includes legend. Text in French.
Contributor:
Tardieu, Pierre François, 1757-1822 (engraver); Dubuisson (engraver); Mentelle, Edme, 1730-1815
Created:
1782?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:14,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates given from an unidentified prime meridian. Includes illustrations. LC copy hand colored.
Creator:
Seutter, Matthaeus 1678-1756.
Created:
1735?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:5,650,000 (E 66°--E 96°/N 36°--S 1°).Relief shown pictorially. Illustrated cartouche by"D.L.R. inv. & del." with motto"Tu regere imperio populos brittanne memento.""Advertisement: For the new and interesting particulars with which this map is enriched, especially in the Northern parts, we are chiefly i...
Creator:
Faden, William 1749-1836; Palmer, William, 1739-1812
Created:
1800
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
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.
Creator:
de L'Isle, Guillaume, 1675-1726; Berey, Nicolas, 1606-1665
Created:
1722
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:3 100 000. Map of India with relief shown pictorially. Insets: NegraiÃàs -- Rivieère d'Aracan -- Riv. de Sirian -- Archipel de Merghi -- Environs de Junk Selon Environs d'Ashem -- Entreáeá du Gange --Environs de Goa.
Creator:
Bourguignon d' Anville, Jean Baptiste, 1697-1782; Delahaye, Guillaume Nicolas, 1727-1802
Created:
1752
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:2,700,000 (W 0°04ʹ00ʺ--E 35°07ʹ00ʺ/N 71°21ʹ00ʺ--N 53°41ʹ00ʺ). Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: London and Ferro Island. Dedication: To His Excellency John Lord Bishop of Bristol Ld. Privy Seal and Her Majesty's first Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Utrecht. This map is Humbly Dedicated by yo...
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:750,000. Relief shown pictorially. Covers area from Benares to Chittigong, from"Botan" [Bhutan] to Bay of Bengal."Published by permission of the court of directors from a drawing in their possession by A. Dury." Includes 1776 dedication by Andrew Dury.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:750,000. Relief shown pictorially. Covers area from Benares to Chittigong, from"Botan" [Bhutan] to Bay of Bengal."Published by permission of the court of directors from a drawing in their possession by A. Dury." Includes 1776 dedication by Andrew Dury.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:750,000. Relief shown pictorially. Covers area from Benares to Chittigong, from"Botan" [Bhutan] to Bay of Bengal."Published by permission of the court of directors from a drawing in their possession by A. Dury." Includes 1776 dedication by Andrew Dury.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:750,000. Relief shown pictorially. Covers area from Benares to Chittigong, from"Botan" [Bhutan] to Bay of Bengal."Published by permission of the court of directors from a drawing in their possession by A. Dury." Includes 1776 dedication by Andrew Dury.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:8,300,000. Hand colored. Pictorial relief. Insets: A chart of the Gold Coast ... [1:1,150,000]--[Azores or Western Islands, scale not given]. Includes descriptive text and ill. of Africans. Prime meridian: Ferro. Illus. cartouche.
Creator:
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794; Bourguignon d' Anville, Jean Baptiste, 1697-1782
Created:
1772
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:8,300,000. Hand colored. Pictorial relief. Insets: A chart of the Gold Coast ... [1:1,150,000]--[Azores or Western Islands, scale not given]. Includes descriptive text and ill. of Africans. Prime meridian: Ferro. Illus. cartouche.
Creator:
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794; Bourguignon d' Anville, Jean Baptiste, 1697-1782
Created:
1772
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.