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America
sive India Nova
A copper-engraved map showing the Western Hemisphere as known at the end of the 16th century. Following the death of the great cartographer Gerard Mercator in 1594, his son Rumold took up the task of publishing the last three parts that formed his famous Atlantis Par Altera. more... |
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World from the best Authorities
A hand colored copper plate engraving of a double hemisphere world map, published in cir. 1780 by Thomas Kitchin. more... |
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The
United States - 1805
A hand colored steel-engraving created by Aaron Arrowsmith and issued in 1805 as part of Abraham Rees’ The New Cyclopaedia, or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences. Showing the United States as it looked at the beginning of the 18th century more... |
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Map
of the Northern Parts of
United States -1805
A most interesting copper plate engraving of the northern region of a young United States. Created by Abraham Bradley, Jr. and published in 1804 as part of Jedidiah Morse’ American Gazetteer. The map covers the region from the District of Maine south to Virginia & “Kentuckey”, and more... |
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Carte
De La Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle York et Pensilvanie pour servir
1'histoire des Voyages
An attractive map covering the East Coast from Delaware Bay to Penobscot Bay, Maine and as far inland as the lakes of Ontario and Erie. Published in Paris cir 1757 by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. more .... |
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