Photocopy of map from Hennepin's Description de la Louisiane. Paris, 1683. and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps
Subject (Name):
Guérard, Nicholas and Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent. Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement decouverte au sud' oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre du roy
Mexican situation, New commercial atlas map of Mexico, New commercial atlas map of North America., Rand McNally new commercial atlas map of North America., and Rand, McNally & Co.'s new business atlas map of Mexico
Description:
Also shows positions of U.S. and Mexican warships, U.S. forts, and principal garrisons of Federal-Mexican troops in north Mexico. and Text of "The Mexican situation" and "Rand McNally new commercial atlas map of North America" (scale [1:20,592,000]) on verso.
Includes inset of Jamaica., Relief shown by hachures., and Yale's copy with portion of a cover pasted on backing, showing advertisements for Betts maps.
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543. Ambassadors Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547
Published / Created:
ca. 1885?]
Call Number:
2003 1481
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
Accompanied by small carved wooden stand, stamped "Hong Kong" and "Kin [Hanooc?]", BEIN 2003 1481: Imperfect: globe is cracked the length of the Pacific Ocean but there is no loss of text. With stand in box shelved as BEIN 2003 1481 2., Delineates Magellan's track and discoveries; shows North America as a continent distinct from Asia, separated by a strait., Nineteenth century facsimile of a 16th century terrestrial globe of the type depicted in Hans Holbein's 1533 painting commonly known as "The ambassadors.", The terrestrial globe in the Holbein painting was traditionally thought to have been based on a lost 1523 terrestrial globe by Johannes Schöner. Cf. Baynes-Cope, A.D. "The investigation of a group of globes" in: Imago mundi: Journal of the International Society for the History of Cartography, no. 33 (1981): 9-19. Cf. Dekker and Lippincott. "The scientific instruments in Holbein's 'Ambassadors': a re-examination" in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 62 (1999): 93-125., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Continuation inset: Central America [12 x 17 cm., scale ca. 1:11,000,000] and Includes time and distance table, list of Presidents, 1860 population statistics, and explanation of British American possessions.
Publisher:
Haasis & Lubrecht,
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps and United States--Maps
Subject (Name):
B.B. Russell & Co., publisher, Ch. Lubrecht & Co., publisher, Haasis & Lubrecht, publisher, J. & D. Beatson Co., publisher, and Lubrecht & Co., publisher
Appears in Johnson's New illustrated family atlas .... 1866., Numbers in right margin: 15, 16., On verso: Geographical index, or ready reference, [p.] 27, 28., Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich., and Relief shown by hachures.
Publisher:
A.J. Johnson?,
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps
Subject (Name):
Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett), 1827-1884. Johnson's New illustrated family atlas of the world