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Persici sive Sophorum Regni Typus

Description: Alai E. 70. Verso text in Spanish. Removed from Theatro de la tierra vniuersal. Originally printed in Latin as Theatrum orbis terrarum in 1570. Includes note on the various names of the Caspian Sea. Cartouche: strapping with birds. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leucarum. Projection: Conical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Printed text in Spanish.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [1588]
Call number: 623749
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Persia Sive Sophorum Regnum

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Alai E. 83, Variant 1. "Amplissmo. Prudentiß T. viro D. Theodoro Tholing, Reip. Amstelod. Senatori et Collegii Scabinorum Praesidi, nec non in Conseßu Societatis Indicae Orientalis adsessori. Tabulam hanc. D.D. Guilielmus Blaey. 1634." Includes note on the various names of the Caspian Sea. Cartouche: Shah Abbas and two guards. Dedication with coat of arms of Tholing. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Conical. Printing Process: Copper engraving.

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Typus orbis terrarum

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Kashnor notes, "A rare and early map, showing all that was known of the North-West Coast of America. California is shown as a peninsula, Cape Mendocin is located at latitude 54, and the Anian country is in the position of Alaska. In the south Terra Austrailis is represented as an enormous continent stretching around the world from New Guinea to Java. It also locates New Francia, with a city called Canada." Circles in each corner have additional quotes from Cicero and Seneca. This is the third plate, first bound into Theatrum in 1592 per Shirley. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Crossed arrows. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Shirley 158; Wagner 147; Van den Broecke 3. Verso Text: Orbis Terrarum; Latin text. MS notes: 214 93/214 32.

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Sicilia Regnum

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Removed from Blaeu's 1640-1643 Latin edition of "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (p 130). MS notes: A-136 #8 A3 10.00. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Sicilia described in Latin. MS notes: A Blaeu 1630.

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Géographie Ecclésiastique de la Turquie d'Asie, et de la Perse / Par le S. Robert de Vaugondy &c

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Not in Alai. At head of title: "Carte des Premiers Ages du Monde." "Avec Privilege 1762." "Gravé par E. Dussy." "Arrivet Sculpsit"--cartouche. Garden of Eden located in Armenia. Cartouche: Elaborate with commandments. Prime meridian: Paris. Relief: shaded. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Conical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: 47 I.

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Geographia sacra

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Date is formed in backwards C. Kashnor notes, "Showing Europe, North Africa, Arabia, and Asia Minor, with the curious insert map of the World, indicating three conjectural locations for Ophir, viz., in South Africa, East Africa, and India." Kashnor gives date of 1624 based on the maps inclusion in the Parergon; the Parergon was first published individually in 1624, but had been included in the Theatrum urbis terrarum as early as 1601 (Van der Krogt, map 0810H:31B). Cartouches: Typical Ortelius with elaborate decoration. Submap: World: "Domini est terra et plenitudo orbis terrarum et universi qui habitant in Eo. Psal. 24." "Reverendo et illustridno [sic] Guilielmo Grimbergio, Antverpiensi Praesuli dignissimo, Abrah. Ortelius obsequij deuotionisque ergo dedicab. consecrabatque." Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Conic. Watermark: Horn & shield. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Van der Broeke 179. Verso Text: Latin text Geographia Sacra. MS note: 984.

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An Accurate Map of North America

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Two sub maps: A Particular Map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay; The Passage by Land to California Discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino.. Voluminous text regarding sections of the treaty and other explanatory details. RLIN record gives appeared in information. Note this is a later printing of the map 093:146 in the Museum Bookstore collection, and is designated 093:147. "Describing and distinguishing the British and Spanish Dominions on this great Continent; according to the Definitive Treaty Concluded at Paris 10th Feby. 1763. Also all the West India Islands belonging to and possessed by the several European Princes and States." "The whole laid down according to the latest and Most authentick Improvements, by Emanuel Bowen, Geogr. to His Majesty And John Gibson Engraver." Elaborate cartouches, on title and scale. Two sub maps. Prime meridian: London, Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Crowned fluer-di-lis. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 149502 147 cat 93 2 sheets [printed] 5 6.

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