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Duche de Bretaigne / Designé par le Sieur Hardy Mareschal des logis du Roy ; Avec Privilege de la Maieste
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Provincia Connachtiae : The Province of Connaught
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Map is the same (with variations in the cartouche and scale location) as the map of Connacht in Jan Jansson's "Novus Atlas" of 1647-1649. Western side of Ireland from Shannon to Donegal. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Ms note: S5.
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Regni Daniae Accuratissima delineatio
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Possibly a later copy of the map of Denmark which appeared in the first section of Jensson's Novus Atlas (Huntington Accession no. 131945) from 1647. Varies only in the cartouche in the lower right corner, which ascribes the map to De Wit and is in Dutch, and in not being colored MS note: 1550? Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada avec l'Isle de Terre-Neuve et de Nouvelle Escosse, Acadie et Nouv. Angleterre avec Fleuve de St. Laurence representé par Matth. Seutter Geogr. de S. M. Imper. d'Ausbourg
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Elaborate cartouche. See also 093:327, a copy of this map with the author's name changed from Seutter to Lotter. Elaborate cartouche, uncolored. Ships in lower right.. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical (stretched scale). Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS notes: 272 13.
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L'Amérique Septentrionale et Meridionale divisée en ses principales parties par les Srs. Sanson Géog. ordin. du Roy rectifiée suivant les nouvelles découvertes et assigettie aux observations astronomiques, par le Sr. Robert Geog. ord. du Roi. Avec Privilege 1749
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Kashnor notes, "In this the coast of California only extends as far as Cape Blanc, and New Albion, Monterey and Cape Mendocin are located." See 093:158 for a later version of this map. Two submaps. Note map on verso. Kashnor states published in Paris. Two submaps; Isle de la Martinique; Isle de S. Domingue. Also table listing the various subdivisions of the continents.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-mapsCartouche. Verso Text: MS notes: Havana map 164a. (pasted to verso).
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Carte D'Amerique Dresée pour l'Usage du Roy Par Guillaume Delisle premier Geographe de Sa Majesté de l'Acadaemie Royale des Sciences
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Kashnor notes, "Terminates the west coast of America at "Entrée decouvert par Martin d'Aquilar," and locates San Francisco and Monterey. Shows California as a peninsula and as a separate province." See 105:214 for an earlier version of this map. This map a reprint of the original 1722 map, done by Phillipe Buache in 1745. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Device with petalled circle lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 215 76.
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Carte Générale de la Russie d'Asie et des Régions Polaires Boréales, par S. Brué, Geographe de J. A. R. Monsieuv
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