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Browse All : Images of Norway and Scandinavia and Iceland
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[Lapie, Pierre, M. 1779-1850, Lapie, Alexandre Emile]
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Engraved map, with insets: Islande. and Iles Faroe. Outline hand color. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian is Paris. In upper left margin: Atlas universel.
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[Selves, Henry Antoine Auguste, France. Conseil Royal de l'instruction publique]
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Hand colored double page map of Scandinavia. Shows political and administrative divisions, capitals, major cities, villages, rivers and mountains. Relief shown by hachures.
Author
[Brion de La Tour, Louis, 1743 – 1803, Desnos, Louis Charles]
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Engraved hand color map. Includes decorative engraved title cartouche and border. Shows political boundaries.
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[Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856, Radefeld, Carl Christian Franz, 1788-1874]
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Engraved outline hand color map. Shows administrative boundaries, cities and towns. Relief shown by hachures.
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Lizars, William Home, 1788-1859
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Double page engraved hand colored in outline map. Relief shown by hachures. Shows political and administrative boundaries, cities, roads, rivers, canals and mountains. Prime meridian is London.
Author
[Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856, Radefeld, Carl Christian Franz, Feuerstein, W.]
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Engraved map. Boundaries outline hand colored. Relief shown by hachures.
Author
Heck, Johann Georg, 1795 -1857
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[Santini, Paolo, Janvier]
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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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[Malte-Brun, Conrad, 1775-1826, Lapie, Pierre]
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Prime meridian is Paris.
Author
Stieler, Adolf
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Engraved outline hand color map. Relief shown by hachures and formlines. Includes text.
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