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Beschreibung der Globuskarte / des Giovanni Verrazano vom Jahre 1530
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Das ist die mapa mundi und alle land und Kungreich wie sie ligend in der gantze welt
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Reproduction. Relief: pictorial. Printing Process: Lithography. Original map in Latin and German, On a separate sheet, accompanying description in German.
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Globuskarte von Jahre 1523
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Reproduction. According to Shirley, the responsibility of Schöner for this map has been disproved; it has however been proved to be based on the globe that appeared in Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors; though the author is not known, it is believed that his gores were based on Maximilian of Transylvania's De moluccis insulis (Shirley, map 62 - date of reproduction also drawn from Shirley entry). Printing Process: Lithography. Original Map in Latin. Publisher information on a separate sheet with accompanying description in German.
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Icones auium omnium, quae in Historia auium Conradi Gesneri describuntur, : cum nomenclaturis singulorum Latinis, Italicis, Gallicis et Germanicis plerunque, per certos ordines digestae. I ritratti e le figure de gli ucelli. Les figures & pourtraictz des oiseaux. Die figuren vnd contrafacturen der vögeln
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Hÿ̈e nach volget das püch der natur, das Innhaltet
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Das norder Theil des Lands Brasilien : darinn die fürnemsten Hafen angedeütet werden, als zu Parayba, Pernambuco, Todos os Santos, und andere
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Kashnor notes, "Consisting of a fine Birds-Eye View of Pernambuco and adjacent Coasts, with a fleet bombarding Pernambuco, and inset map of the Brazilian Coast, from the Island of Taperica to the Mouth of the Rio Grand." Included in the two German editions (1627, 1628) and one Latin (1634) edition of Theodor de Bry's Historiae Americanae, part 13. Kashnor (mistakenly?) dates as [Frankfort, 1631]. Pernambuco is called Recife today. Vignette: Marine battle. Submap: Brazilian coast line. MS note: 880 (on backing). Table of explanation of battle scene in German. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Panorama delle Alpi carniche e goriziane preso da Opcina presso Trieste Panorama der venetianischen u. görzischen Alpen vom Triangulirungspuncte Opcina bei Triest
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