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Petri, Girolamo
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Hand-colored, engraved map showing the apostolic vicariates of the Congo, the Cape of Good Hope and Natal (South Africa), the island of Nosy Be (Madagascar) and the archipelago of Mayotte, as well as Madagascar and Mozambique. Text in delicate script circling land. Accompanied by descriptive text on facing page. In Volume III.
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[Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612]
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[Chatelain Henri, 1684-1743, Gueudeville, Nicolas]
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Engraved panoramic view of the city of Lovango in Congo, with ten vignettes of the people and ceremonies of the Kingdom of Congo. Includes descriptive text.
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Habenicht, Hermann
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Color map. Relief shown by shading, hachures and spot heights. Prime meridian is Greenwich.
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[Stieler, Adolf, Haack, H.]
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Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
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Copper engraved double page map of Congo, and Angola to the border with present-day Namibia, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche. Showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, villages, landmarks, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Author
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
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From J.F. Letenneur: "Exceptional onboard document of this rare and fabulous maritime atlas, a masterpiece by the greatest French hydrographer of the 18th century, with maps of all the coastlines known at the time. Bound with the coat of arms of the King of France, the atlas was taken by the English aboard the frigate la Nymphe, off the coasts of Ushant August 10, 1780, during one of the naval battles of the American War of Independence which took place on European waters. In the context of the war at the end of the 18th century, and of the rivalry between the French and British Navy, maritime atlases, were strategic tools, and this “Hydrographie Françoise” more so than any other, because its purpose was to provide the best maritime charts for the French ships that were fighting on the American side against the British. (The handwritten captions throughout most of the atlas are prices for individual maps and all include the same mention: “for sailors”). These atlases were not the kind to be kept in a library, but precious tools, based on the observations of the travelers and continuously improved upon, as reflect in the present copy. It was bound with the engraved title page of the edition of 1737-1765, but the index includes maps printed after 1765 (until 1772), and the copy was augmented by six maps that do not appear in the index (until 1776), as well as 14 pages of text from the Versailles edition of 1773. The later maps are signed by Verdun de la Crenne and were done during the campaigns of the Flore (1771-1772) and of the Isis led by Fleurieu in 1768-1769. The captions explain that the maps were created using the latest technology of the day that could measure longitude (maritime clocks)." (Continued in the Pub Note field).
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
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2 Milliaria Germanica Communia = 7.2 cm
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[Gaspari, Adam Christian (1752-1830), Reinecke, I.C.M.]
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Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
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Decorative title cartouche. Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Shows settlements. Includes notes.
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Bartholomew, John
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Full color map. Inset: continuation of map on the same scale. Relief shown by gradient tints. Depth shown by gradient tints. Prime meridian is Greenwich. No. 1266 and Jul 55, marked on the lower corners of plate. The Times Atlas on the upper left corner.
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Bartholomew, John
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Uncolored index map. Key to adjoining areas.
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