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Carte d'Asie : dressée pour l'Usage du Roy ; sur les memoires envoyéz par le Czar a l'Academie Royale des Sciences Sur ce que les Arabes nous ont laissé de plus exact des pays orientaux ; sur un grand nombre de Routiers de terre et de mer et de Cartes manuscrites detaillées ; le tout assujeti aux observations de l'Academie et a celles des RRP.P. Jesuites et autres Mathematiciens / par Guillaume Delisle Premier Geographe de sa Majesté de l'Academie Royale des Sciences
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Asia : cum omnibus imperiis, provinciis, statibus et insulis ; juxta observationes recentissimas et accuratissimas correcta et adornata / per Matthaeum Seutter Chalcograph
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Kashnor notes, "Includes Manila and the Philippine Islands." Kashnor dates at ca. 1700. Cartouche: Asian figures and animals. Figures surrounding "Lector Benevole" (upper right). Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Azimuthal. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MSW notes: Asien VI z 735.
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Kashnor notes, "Includes Manila and the Philippine Islands." Kashnor dates as ca. 1720. Cartouche: Figures of Gods, humans & animals.. "By John Senex and Jon. Maxwell. At the Globe in Salisbury Court near Fleet Street in London." "H. Hulsbergh Scul. (cartouche)" Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues, Miles. Projection: Azimuthal. Watermark: Crowned fleur-di-lis VI. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: M S notes: 734 3.
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Kashnor notes, "This is Palairet's map. It shows the Philippine Islands." MS note: 9 (upper right). Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues, wersts, parasanges.. Projection: Azimuthal. Watermark: Crowned fleur-di-lis VI. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 741 9.
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Asia : accuratissime descripta ex omnibus, quae hactenus extiterunt imprimis viri ampliss. Nicolai Witsen, Consulis Amstelaedamensis exactissimis delineationibus
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Kashnor notes, "Shows Manila and the Philippine Islands." Kashnor dates as ca. 1750. Cartouche: Asian figures and animals. Submap: Extension if North East Asia. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Azimuthal. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 105/733.
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Carte de la terre ferme du Perou, du Bresil et du pays des Amazones : dressée sur les descriptions de Herrera de Laet, et des PP. d'Acuña, et M. Rodriguez, et sur plusieurs relations et observations posterieures / par Guillaume Del'Isle, Geographe de l'Academie Royale des Sciences
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See 093:646M for a later copy by Buache, also 093:686M; for Homann copy, 093:682M. Note this is a reduced size copy with inferior engraving, see cartouche. Kashnor dates this copy as ca. 1720. Cartouche: Amazon warriors. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Chained Maltese cross lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 682 30.
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This is Sanson's version of famous de l'Isle map with South America curving west. See 093:610 or RB 295821. Kashnor dates as ca. 1680, but de l'Isle's map preceded this one. Kashnor notes, "Shows the Argentine provinces as "Provinces de Rio de la Plata." Cartouche: Figures & scrolling. MS note: No. 1 (upper left). Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 631.
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