In french with long explanation of the use of letters in the margin for finding places mentioned in tables above and below map. Last date mentioned is 1685. and Preliminary record.
Appears in: Isolario, descrittione geografico-historica, sacro-profana...di tutte l'isole...del globo terracqueo / del P. maestro Vincenzo Coronelli, 1696. Parte II, p. 113., Appears to have, At head of page: Isolario del P. Coronelli., and In upper right: 113.
Jovrnal ou Description dv merveillevx voyage de Gvillavme Schovten, hollandois natif de Hoorn
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Depicts notable explorers of the time as well as two ships, the Victoria and the Eendracht.
Description:
Bound in preceding first page of text., In ink on recto: Olivier van Nort [sic]., and Scale not given.
Subject (Geographic):
Eastern Hemisphere --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Western Hemisphere --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592, Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596, Magalhaes, Fernao de, d. 1521, Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 9-1627, Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon, d. 1625, and Spilbergen, Joris van, 1568?-1620
Subject (Topic):
Voyages around the world --To 1700
Collection Created:
A Amstredam : Chez Harman Ianson, marchand libraire, demeurant en la VVarmoes-straet, a le Sereine, 1619
Cosmographia Pii Papae in Asiæ & Europæ eleganti descriptione : Asia. Historias rerum vbique
Image Count:
1
Description:
Map bound in before aaii
Subject (Topic):
Discoveries in geography and World maps --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[Paris]: Impressa ... per Henricum Stephanum impressorem dilige[n]tiss. Parrhisijs e regione scholae Decretorum. sumptib. eiusdem He[n]rici. & Ioa[n]nis Hongo[n]ti. VI. Idus Octobris anno Domini M.D.IX. [1509]
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4.
Published / Created:
[15--?]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 575
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
In the center of the map is Mecca; the ocean is located on each side along the outer edge of the sheet with the pillars of the earth in the four corners. Great emphasis is placed on Africa and the Nile river. Other places of interest include: Wasteland where nobody lives, Mountains of the Moon, Land of the Slavs and Franks, Gog and Magog, Land of the Turks (Central Asia), Red Sea (rectangular water mass), the Source of life.
Description:
Gift of Thomas E. Marston, Yale '27, in honor of Alexander O. Vietor, Yale '36, in November 1978., Removed from a bound volume., and Tempera and ink.
Territory of north western America, ceded by Russia to the United States, 1868.
Description:
Also shows principal mail routes and railroads., Dakota Territory appears reduced to present area (1868), but before it was divided into North Dakota and South Dakota (1889)., Includes inset of "The territory of north western America, ceded by Russia to the United States, 1868" (scale 1:9,000,000)., Library's copy missing bottom right sheet and top two sheets are joined. Bottom left sheet blind stamped, "Boston Public Library.", Relief shown by hachures and spot heights., and Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Maps
Subject (Topic):
Military departments and divisions--West (U.S.)--Maps, Postal service--West (U.S.)--Maps, and Railroads--West (U.S.)--Maps
