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[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the coasts of Europe and northwest Africa].

[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the coasts of...

Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title devised by cataloguer. Contains 4 compass roses in a circle centered in Italy to the north of Rome and half of a fifth on the trimmed center lef... More

Wij Christina medh Gudz... - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

Wij Christina medh Gudz... - Public domain broadside, Library of Congr...

Svenskt offentligt tryck (WWW) 3304073 Title from beginning of text. Dated at end: Datum Stockholm then 8. martif åhr 1636. Place of printing and name of printer from SOT. Ornamental initial. Also available in... More

Guillaume Sanson - Carte nouvelle de la mer mediterranee.

Guillaume Sanson - Carte nouvelle de la mer mediterranee.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[Map of northeastern coast of Venezuela including Trinidad and Tobago Islands].

[Map of northeastern coast of Venezuela including Trinidad and Tobago ...

Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: IV, J. Kool, and Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and yellow ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 988 Available also through the Library of Congress W... More

To his excellency William Burnet, esqr., this plan of Boston in New England is humbly dedicated by his excellencys most obedient and humble servant Will Burgiss /

To his excellency William Burnet, esqr., this plan of Boston in New En...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows selected buildings pictorially. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermark indecipherable. Wheat & Brun no. 227. Includes index to selected buildings and embellished t... More

A new & accurate map of Persia, with the adjacent countries : drawn from the most approved modern maps &c, the whole being regulated by astronl. observations /

A new & accurate map of Persia, with the adjacent countries : drawn fr...

Relief shown pictorially. Has ornamental cartouche. From: Bowen's A complete system of geography. London : Printed for W. Innys, R. Ware [etc.], 1747. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as ... More

Mapa y tabla geografica de leguas comunes que hay de unos á otros lugares y ciudades principales de la America septentrional ...

Mapa y tabla geografica de leguas comunes que hay de unos á otros luga...

Shows North America. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. "Dedicada al exm̃o señor D. Agustín de Ahumada y Villalón, marqués de las Amarillas, ... virrey governador y captain general de esta Nueva Espana."... More

Plano del puerto y río de Guayaquil /

Plano del puerto y río de Guayaquil /

Shows Gulf of Guayaquil. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Watermarks: Two unidentifiable watermarks. Pen-and-ink and brown ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 409 A... More

Plano de la ciudad de S. Juan de Puerto Rico.

Plano de la ciudad de S. Juan de Puerto Rico.

Oriented with north toward the lower left. Pen-and-ink and watercolors. Indexed. Marbled paper mounted on verso. Date stamped and typewritten printed label mounted on marbled paper: Coleccion: José Ma. López de... More

[Battle of Bunker Hill. - Public domain vintage map

[Battle of Bunker Hill. - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:3,900. Title from manuscript catalog of Peter Force map collection. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and pencil. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References" to points of military interest in different ha... More

A map of the British colonies in North America, with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations,

A map of the British colonies in North America, with the roads, distan...

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. Fourth ed. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 43 Includes text and inset "A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late surveys of those c... More

Carte réduite des îles Antilles : au nord du 13me. degré de latitude ; Carte réduite des debouquements de St. Domingue /

Carte réduite des îles Antilles : au nord du 13me. degré de latitude ;...

Scale ca. 1:1,250,000 and ca. 1:1,300,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Paris. "Longitude occidentale du méridien de Paris pris à la Observatoire." Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "Dressé... More

This map of the province of Nova-Scotia and parts adjacent.

This map of the province of Nova-Scotia and parts adjacent.

Scale ca. 1:3,750,000. Relief shown pictorially. Shows the Maritime Provinces, Newfoundland, and the St. Laurence River Valley between 1755 and 1757. Inscribed to "His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia ... " LC... More

[Coast of Maine showing entrances of Blue Hill Bay, Isle of Haut Bay, and Penobscot Bay, with Owls Head, Vinalhaven Island, Isle au Haut, and other islands.

[Coast of Maine showing entrances of Blue Hill Bay, Isle of Haut Bay, ...

Scale ca. 1:48,500. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Deterioration along the bottom right edges... More

[Coast of Maine from Salter Island to Portland Head. nautical chart

[Coast of Maine from Salter Island to Portland Head. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:48,000. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Soundings shown in feet. LC copy imperfect: Deterioration along folds. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 856 Available also through the Library of Co... More

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America. Containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. With the addition of New York, and of the greatest part of New England, as also of the bordering parts of the province of Quebec, improved from several surveys made after the late war, and corrected from Governor Pownall's late map 1776.

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America. Containing V...

Scale ca. 1:2,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "The seat of war in the middle British colonies, containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, &ca." Inset: A sketch of the upper parts of ... More

A topographical map of the northn. part of New York Island, exhibiting the plan of Fort Washington, now Fort Knyphausen, with the rebels lines to the southward, which were forced by the troops under the command of the Rt. Honble. Earl Percy, on the 16th Novr. 1776, and survey'd immediately after by order of His Lordship. To which is added the attack made to the northd. by the Hessians.

A topographical map of the northn. part of New York Island, exhibiting...

Scale ca. 1:20,000. Hand colored. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes descriptive index. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2; 700

Red Banke. Historic map, Library of Congress

Red Banke. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications of Fort Mercer, N.J. currently located in Red ... More

Carte d'Amerique dressée pour l'usage du Roy.

Carte d'Amerique dressée pour l'usage du Roy.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

A new map of the West Indies, - Public domain old map

A new map of the West Indies, - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:11,250,000. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown pictorially. Also shows Florida, eastern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1712 Available als... More

The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish territories according to the treaty of 1784.

The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish territo...

Scale ca. 1:6,450,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Shows numerous boundary changes. Includes text. Includes historical notes and a color key. For a description of the second ... More

The course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester, exhibiting the several works erected by the rebels to defend its passage, with the attacks made upon them by His Majesty's land & sea forces.

The course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester, exhibiting ...

Scale ca. 1:33,200. Hand colored. Shows soundings and disposition of ships, etc. Includes "A sketch of Fort Island" and "Profile and plan of the sunk frames or chevaux de frise which formed the stackadoes in th... More

Design of the federal city, comparative plans of L'Enfant and Ellicott : Washington D.C.

Design of the federal city, comparative plans of L'Enfant and Ellicott...

Shows major streets and avenues, plazas, and government buildings. "Ellicott's engraved plan superimposed on the plan of L'Enfant showing the changes made in the engraved plan under the direction of President W... More

Olney hymns in three books - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Olney hymns in three books - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Preface signed: John Newton. 280 hymns by Newton, 68 by Cowper.--Cf. Dictionary of National Biography. Without music. Errata: p. [xxviii]; publisher's advertisement: p. [428]. Also available in digital form on ... More

The rigadoon royal Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majestys birth day 1711

The rigadoon royal Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majestys birth d...

engraven in characters & figures for the use of masters writ by Mr. de la Garde, dancing master ... (statement of responsibility) Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images... More

Mapa geográfico de la mayor parte de la América Meridional que contiene los paises por donde debe trazarse la línia divisoria que divida los dominios de España y Portugal

Mapa geográfico de la mayor parte de la América Meridional que contien...

Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing to fold to 32 x 25 cm. LC copy accompanied by 8 manuscript texts: namely 2 reports by Requena with other members of the expeditio... More

Calendarium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Calendarium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in red and black. Goff R-92 Hain-Copinger 13775 BM 15th cent., II, p. 456 (IA.7877) Schramm, XVIII, p. 5, 16, and illus. Rosenwald 25 ... More

The mysteries of nature and art, conteined in 4 severall tretises

The mysteries of nature and art, conteined in 4 severall tretises

Title page engr.; books 2-4 have special t.p. Bookplate of Howard C. Levis. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1480 ESTC S122341 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Examen fvcorvm psevdo-chymicorvm detectorvm et in gratiam veritatis amantium succincte refutatorum,

Examen fvcorvm psevdo-chymicorvm detectorvm et in gratiam veritatis am...

Title vignette. With his Atalanta fvgiens...Oppenheimii, 1618. LAC ecr 2018-09-06 LAC Review Completed 2018-09-11 LAC iak 2018-09-11

Das Buch der natürlichen Weiszheit, Augsburg, Bavaria

Das Buch der natürlichen Weiszheit, Augsburg, Bavaria

Attributed in this ed. (as in all mss. and early eds.) to a Cyrillus Episcopus, variously identified with Saint Cyrillus, Bp. of Jerusalem, Saint Cyrillus of Thessalonica, or Cyrillus de Quidenon. Cf. J.G.T. Gr... More

Musæum hermeticum, omnes sopho-spagyricæ artis discipulos fidelissime erudiens, quo pacto summa illa veraque medicina, qua res omnes, qualemcumque defectum patientes, instaurari possunt (quæ alias benedictus lapis sapientum appellatur) inueniri ac haberi queat. Continens tractatvs chymicos nouem præstantissimos, quorum nomina & seriem versa pagella indicabit. In gratiam filiorum doctrinæ, quibus germanicum idioma ignotum, in latinum conuersum ac juris publici factum

Musæum hermeticum, omnes sopho-spagyricæ artis discipulos fidelissime ...

Title within engr. border. Each tract has special engr. t.-p. LAC ecr 2018-09-06 LAC Review Completed 2018-09-10

Tōkaidō bunkenzu : 1-bu o motte 1-chō ni ateru.

Tōkaidō bunkenzu : 1-bu o motte 1-chō ni ateru.

Shows road between Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Title from title piece mounted on scroll. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Orientation varies. Worm holes in the map. Stamped on: Kan... More

Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / nautical chart

Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / nautical chart

Relief shown pictorially. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 8 Orientation varies. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Preface (4 p.) and last map created and added in 1692 by Don Francisco de Seixas y Lovera. Some staining and ... More

Whole duty of woman - An old book with writing on it

Whole duty of woman - An old book with writing on it

Numbers 113-120 missed in pagination. Signatures: A-G¹². ESTC T64198 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: first leaf wanting. LC copy includes bookplate of Walt... More

Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique angloise contenant tout ce que les Anglois possédent sur le continent de l'Amérique septentrionale savoir le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse ou Acadie, les treize provinces unies qui font: les quatres colonies de la Nouvelle Angleterre ...

Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique angloise contenant tout ce que les Angloi...

Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Tobias Conrad Lotter's Atlas géographique. 1778. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Two copies. ... More

Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee ...

Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Engraved t.p. and tail-piece. With this is bound: Maier, Michael. Michaelis Majeri ... Secretioris naturæ secretorum scrutinium chymicum ... F... More

Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee ...

Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Engraved t.p. and tail-piece. With this is bound: Maier, Michael. Michaelis Majeri ... Secretioris naturæ secretorum scrutinium chymicum ... F... More

[Aihun, Luosha, Taiwan, Nei Menggu tu]

[Aihun, Luosha, Taiwan, Nei Menggu tu]

Scales differ. Manuscript on silk. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Bird's-eye view. Covers four frontier regions of the Manchu Dynasty, Aihun area, a military colony since the middle of the 17th centur... More

Passio Christi. - Public domain medieval manuscript

Passio Christi. - Public domain medieval manuscript

Seventeen woodcuts on rectos with xylographic text in German on versos. Signatures: [a1 b¹⁶]. Rosenwald 24 Golitsyn, M.A. Cat. des livres, 1866, no. 58, p. 31-34 LC copy: initials and illus. hand-colored. LC c... More

Die Geschicht vnd Legend von dem seyligen Kind vnd Marterer genannt Symon, von den Juden zu Trientt gemarteret vnd getöttet.

Die Geschicht vnd Legend von dem seyligen Kind vnd Marterer genannt Sy...

Rosenwald 60 Goff T-489 Hain-Copinger 15658 BM 15th cent., II, p. 322 (IB.5478) Schramm, II, p. 16, 24, and illus. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy rubricated; illus. ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio. Anno Do: M D LXXXVIII.

Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio. Anno Do: M D LXXXV...

Intended to accompany: Ubaldini, Petruccio. A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete invadinge Englande in the yeare 1588. Some of the plates are signed by Robert Adams, artist, and Augustine Ryther, engrav... More

Das Büchlin vo[n] dem sterbenden Me[n]schen.

Das Büchlin vo[n] dem sterbenden Me[n]schen.

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [3a]). A free translation of the Cordiale quattuor novissimorum, often erroneously attributed to Hans Münzinger. Cf. Franz Falk's Die deutschen Sterbebüchlein, 1890, p. 80. ... More

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini ..

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato ...

Vols. 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary gilt vellum. Provenance: J. A. de Thou (with his signature) Robert Hoe, Joseph Martini (with their book-plates) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collec... More

Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States. Part I.

Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United S...

Compiled by Baron de Steuben, inspector general of the Continental Army, and assisted by François-Louis Teissèydre. Illustrations drawn by Pierre L'Enfant. Errata note, p. [163-164]. "Explanation of the plat... More

The history of Persia - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The history of Persia - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

Pedro, not Antonio, Teixeira was the compiler of this work.--cf. Silva, Dicc. bibl. port., Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale, and Brit. mus. Catalogue. A translation, with additions, of Pedro Teixeira's Relaciones... More

Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen.

Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India...

Relief shown pictorially. South America labeled in German, geographic features otherwise in Latin. Appears in the author's Cosmographei. Basel, Switzerland. 1550. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

Map of eastern Canada - Public domain vintage map

Map of eastern Canada - Public domain vintage map

Relief shown pictorially. From Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Terzo volvme delle navigationi et viaggi ...? 1565? pp. 424-425? In upper left margin: 424. In upper right margin: 425. Available also through the Libr... More

John Smith - Virginia / Historic map, Library of Congress

John Smith - Virginia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Sixth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Accompanied by 2 exhibit notes and LC jacket note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Amérique septentrionale Historic map, Library of Congress

Amérique septentrionale Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Prime meridian: [Paris]. From his 1658 (i.e. 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (Phillips 4260). Second state: Lake Ontario contains shading along bor... More

Provincia d[e] S. Diego de Mexico en la nueba España tiene 14 co[n]ventos y desde el d[e] Oaxaca que esta en 17 gra[do]s ael le sueste hasta el de Aguas Calie[n]tes que esta en 22 al norueste ay de distancia 160 leguas : por el oriente co[n]fina con el obispado de la Puebla y Oaxaca, por el poniente co[n] el Obispado de Michoacan y Guadalaxara, por norte y sur con el Arzobispado de Mexico /

Provincia d[e] S. Diego de Mexico en la nueba España tiene 14 co[n]ven...

Bird's-eye view. Relief shown pictorially. In upper border: Nova delineatio s[t]rictissimæ, S. Didaci Provinciæ in Nova Hispania. Accompanied by paper pulls of recto and verso of the cooperplate. ([2] leaves : ... More

Carta esférica que compde. una pte. del Archipielago de los Galapagos desde 1⁰ 35 ms. de latd. sept. hasta 1⁰ de la meridional reconocidos por la Fragta. Sta. Gertrudiz del man[?] del Capitan de Navio. Dn. Alonso de Torres y Guerra desde el dia 18 de marzo hasta el 21 del mismo levantada segn. los puntos de latd. qe. le observn. en a quellos obras ...

Carta esférica que compde. una pte. del Archipielago de los Galapagos ...

Also shows routes of expeditions. Pen-and-ink and red ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 413 Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 135. Available also through the Library o... More

A compleat description of the province of Carolina in 3 parts : 1st, the improved part from the surveys of Maurice Mathews & Mr. John Love : 2ly, the west part by Capt. Tho. Nairn : 3ly, a chart of the coast from Virginia to Cape Florida /

A compleat description of the province of Carolina in 3 parts : 1st, t...

Shows coastal area from North Carolina to Florida. Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Charles Town. Mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as ... More

This map of South America, according to the newest and most exact observations

This map of South America, according to the newest and most exact obse...

Scale ca. 1:17,500,000. Hand colored. "To the Right Honourable, Charles, Earl of Sunderland, and Baron Spencer of Wormleighton; one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State; &c." Available also through t... More

A new and accurate chart of the West Indies with the adjacent coasts of North and South America /

A new and accurate chart of the West Indies with the adjacent coasts o...

Relief shown pictorially. Gift of the estate of Jessica Lee. In lower right margin: Vol. II. Page 39. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes. Acquisitions cont... More

Palaestina seu Terra olim Sancta tum duodecim tribubus distributa tum a Davide et Salomone /

Palaestina seu Terra olim Sancta tum duodecim tribubus distributa tum ...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy: Hand colored.

Plano del Pto. del Callao de Lima con las costas y yslas y arresifes ymediat. qe. compde.

Plano del Pto. del Callao de Lima con las costas y yslas y arresifes y...

Shows coast of Peru in region of Callao. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Watermarks: IV, fleur-de-lis, and other unidentifiable watermark. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Mounted o... More

A map of the British and French settlements in North America.

A map of the British and French settlements in North America.

Scale ca. 1:11,000,000. Covers the eastern half of North America from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, cities and towns, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory,... More

A new and accurate map of Virginia & Maryland

A new and accurate map of Virginia & Maryland

Scale ca. 1:1,150,000. "No. 61." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1379 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site a... More

A map of the British plantations on the continent of North America, according to the notes and improvements of Mr. Bolton, made in the original of Mr. Danville; with the history of each colony in the margin.

A map of the British plantations on the continent of North America, ac...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "West longitude from Ferro." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 87 Includes historic notes and text on "Fourteen British colonies including Newfo... More

America Septentrionalis a Domino d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in Anglia. Coloniis in interiorem Virginiam deductis nec non Fluvii Ohio cursu aucta notisque geographicis et historicis illustrata.

America Septentrionalis a Domino d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in An...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro and London. Place names and descriptive notes in English. Differs from other copies in coloration and boundaries. Colors do n... More

Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland.

Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland.

Scale ca. 1:880,000. First state. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows Virginia, Maryland, and "De La War counties." The first state is described in Joshua Fry's The Fry & Jefferson map of Virginia and... More

A plan of the city of Louisbourg with its fortifications

A plan of the city of Louisbourg with its fortifications

Relief shown by hachures. Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Aug. 2010. Gift from Mark Hutchins, Hutchins & Associates. Indexed. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

The Attack of Manilla, October 1762.

The Attack of Manilla, October 1762.

Scale ca. 1:2,100. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the left. Pictorial map. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 731 Includes index to points of interest and ships in the harbor. Available als... More

Plan de la baye de Chibouctou nommée par les Anglois Halifax, 1763

Plan de la baye de Chibouctou nommée par les Anglois Halifax, 1763

Scale ca. 1:100,000. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower right. "Tome I, no. 28." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. Inset with index: Plan de... More

Descripcion de las costas, islas placeres, i bajos delas, Indias Occidentales,

Descripcion de las costas, islas placeres, i bajos delas, Indias Occid...

Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Shows the Atlantic coast of southern U.S., Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. "Sibre para Domingo de Belasco Pilo to d... More

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville - A new and accurate map of North America,

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville - A new and accurate map of North ...

Scale ca. 1:6,360,000. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. "West longitude from Ferro." Differs from other copies in coloration of boundaries. Boundaries only are colored. Long Island is colored as being at... More

A plan of the city of New-York & its environs to Greenwich, on the North or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point, on the East or Sound River, shewing the several streets, publick buildings, docks, fort & battery, with the true form & course of the commanding grounds, with and without the town. Survey'd in the winter, 1775 [i.e. 1766]

A plan of the city of New-York & its environs to Greenwich, on the Nor...

Scale ca. 1:6,300. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. Dedicated to Major Gen. Thos. Gage. Includes descriptive note, "References," and inset "A chart of the entrance to New York from Sandy Ho... More

Plan of the town with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th. of June 1775.

Plan of the town with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of C...

Scale ca. 1:19,000. Relief shown by hachures. Battle of Bunker Hill shown pictorially. From James Murray's Impartial history of the present war in America. v. 1. p. 431. Includes historical note on fires and in... More

Carte des environs d'Hampton. - Public domain old map

Carte des environs d'Hampton. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:28,800; échelle de 3 lignes pour 100 toises. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: Fleur de lis surmounting a scroll crossed with three bars. Oriented with north toward the right. Relie... More

Plan of the city of New York. - Public domain old map

Plan of the city of New York. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:13,000. Hand colored. Shows ward boundaries. Includes index to buildings. Wheat & Brun. Maps and Charts (1978 ed.) 387 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1113 Available also through the Library of... More

The Mall as proposed by Pierre L'Enfant 1790 : from the original : Washington D.C.

The Mall as proposed by Pierre L'Enfant 1790 : from the original : Was...

At head of title: Jan. 1st 1900. "To accompany annual report of Theo. A. Bingham, June 30th 1901, Col. U.S. Army." "Eng 57 1." LC copy fold-lined, halved, mounted on cloth backing, and annotated in pencil: Copi... More

Carte générale de l'Océan Atlantique ou Occidental, nautical chart

Carte générale de l'Océan Atlantique ou Occidental, nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:12,000,000. Depths shown by soundings. Mercator projection. Prime meridian: Paris. "No. 20." LC copy annotated in red to plot voyage from Brest to "F. Dauphin" in Haiti. Available also through the L... More

A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America : with the tracks of His Majesty's sloop Discovery and armed tender Chatham /

A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America : with the tracks of...

Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. In upper right corner: 5. Insets: Entrance of Columbia River -- Gray's Harbour -- Port Discovery. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A new map of the world : with all the new discoveries by Capt. Cook and other navigators : ornamented with the Solar System, the eclipses of the sun, moon & planets &c. /

A new map of the world : with all the new discoveries by Capt. Cook an...

Relief shown pictorially. Also shows lines of magnetic variation and marine wind-direction arrows. "Published as the Act directs, Aug't 1st 1799, by I. Evans, No. 41 Long Lane, West Smithfield." Originally prin... More

[Cartouche from A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto]
[Plat of a survey for William Hughes, Jr. of 460 acres in Frederick County, Va. on the Cacapon River].

[Plat of a survey for William Hughes, Jr. of 460 acres in Frederick Co...

Title from Lawrence Martin's The George Washington Atlas. 1932. Survey plot is located either in Hampshire County or Morgan County, W. Va. Handwritten on verso: William Hughes Junr., plat for 460 acres, 1753,... More

Irlandiae regnum. Historic map, Library of Congress

Irlandiae regnum. Historic map, Library of Congress

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[Map of Lesser Antilles]. - Public domain vintage map

[Map of Lesser Antilles]. - Public domain vintage map

Depths shown by soundings. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web sit... More

Iudæa Seu Palæstina ob Sacratissima Redemtoris vestigia hodie dicta Terra Sancta prout olim in Duodecim Tribus Divisa : separatis ab invicem Regnis Iuda Et Israel expressis insuper VI ultimi temporis ejusdem Terræ Provinciis collecta ex Tabulis Guil. Sanssonis Christssimi Regis Geogr

Iudæa Seu Palæstina ob Sacratissima Redemtoris vestigia hodie dicta Te...

Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset of "Populi Israelitici ex Ægypto per Desertum in Terram Promissionis Canaan quadraginta annorum Iter Stationes et Profectio." Minimal level cataloging record. Available ... More

The Pastorall Mr. Issac's new dance made for Her Majestys birth day 1713

The Pastorall Mr. Issac's new dance made for Her Majestys birth day 17...

the tune by Mr. Paisible ; engraven in characters and figures for the use of masters writ by Mr. Pemberton ... (statement of responsibility) Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile ... More

Traité sur l'art de la danse dédié á Monsieur Gardel, l'ainé

Traité sur l'art de la danse dédié á Monsieur Gardel, l'ainé

Par M. Malpied. (statement of responsibility) Engr. t-p. and text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Kalender Maister Johannes Künigsperger, Augsburg, Bavaria

Kalender Maister Johannes Künigsperger, Augsburg, Bavaria

Printing, including the diagrams of eclipses, in black and red. Leaves [27-28] (designated as 27-30 by BM 15th cent.), containing diagrams of instruments, are each made up of 2 leaves pasted together. Rosenwald... More

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, containyng thextraction of rootes, the cossike practise, with the rule of equation, and the woorkes of surde nombers

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, c...

Author's name appears in dedication('Epistle dedicatorie") as "Robert Recorde". Manuscript notes. "These bookes are to bee solde, at the Weste doore of Poules, by Ihon Kyngstone." Imprint from colophon. Signatu... More

Mutus liber, L'Alchimie - Public domain book scan / engraving

Mutus liber, L'Alchimie - Public domain book scan / engraving

In Latin Attributed to a possibly fictitious Jacob Saulat or Sulat (of which Altus is an anagram) and also to a doctor Tolié . Cf. E. Canseliet L'Alchimie et son Livre muet {1967} The plates , re-engraved afte... More

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occidentales

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occ...

In three parts. Title in red and black; on verso of t.-p., the arms of Pardiñas Villar de Francos; engr. vignette (p. 20). "Descripción de las islas del mar Athlantico y de America. Por el capitan D. Miguel d... More

Unnamed Sufi treatise - Persian manuscript

Unnamed Sufi treatise - Persian manuscript

Untitled Sufi text on meditation containing both poetry and prose. Manuscript. Persian; colophon in Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī (calligrapher)--Colophon. Probably written ... More

Mapa geográfico de la mayor parte de la América Meridional que contiene los paises por donde debe trazarse la línia divisoria que divida los dominios de España y Portugal

Mapa geográfico de la mayor parte de la América Meridional que contien...

Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing to fold to 32 x 25 cm. LC copy accompanied by 8 manuscript texts: namely 2 reports by Requena with other members of the expeditio... More

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Signatures; A-M¹, 2 leaves unsigned. Illus. by J. S. van Calcar. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 906 LAC brd 2018-11-14 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-15 review

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Signatures; A-M¹, 2 leaves unsigned. Illus. by J. S. van Calcar. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 906 LAC brd 2018-11-14 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-15 review

Nakd üt-tevarih. Publicd domain Turkish study book.

Nakd üt-tevarih. Publicd domain Turkish study book.

Master Microform held by: DLC Inscriptions on front and back covers: [tughra] el-Müstenid bi-tevfikât ir-Rabbâniye, Melik üd-Devlet-il-aliyet-il-Osmaniye, es-Sultan ibn us-Sultan is-Sultan el-Gazi Abdülham... More

Nvove inventioni di balli opera vaghissima nella quale si danno i giusti modi del ben portar la vita, et di accommodarsi con ogni leggiadria di movimento alle creanze et gratie d'amore. Convenevoli a tutti i cavalieri, & dame, per ogni sorte di ballo, balletto, & brando d'Italia, di Spagna & di Francia. Con figure ... in rame et regole della musica et intavolatura quali si richieggono al suono et al canto. Divisa in tre trattati

Nvove inventioni di balli opera vaghissima nella quale si danno i gius...

Running title: Le gratie d'amore, the title under which the work was first published in 1602. Includes lute tablatures for some of the dances. Earlier state (?) of engraving on p. 256 inserted between p. 202 an... More

La mer des histoires - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

La mer des histoires - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress s...

Translation of the Latin original (Lübeck, 1475), with additional matter on the kings of France and continuation to 1483. Erroneously ascribed to Giovanni da Colonna and to Burchardus de Monte Sion, a translat... More

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occidentales

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occ...

In three parts. Title in red and black; on verso of t.-p., the arms of Pardiñas Villar de Francos; engr. vignette (p. 20). "Descripción de las islas del mar Athlantico y de America. Por el capitan D. Miguel d... More

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occidentales

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occ...

In three parts. Title in red and black; on verso of t.-p., the arms of Pardiñas Villar de Francos; engr. vignette (p. 20). "Descripción de las islas del mar Athlantico y de America. Por el capitan D. Miguel d... More

Liber cronicarum, cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi

Liber cronicarum, cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi

Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1a]), which begins: Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum ... Illus. by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Rosenwald 163 Goff S-307 Hain-Copinger ... More

Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / nautical chart

Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / nautical chart

Relief shown pictorially. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 8 Orientation varies. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Preface (4 p.) and last map created and added in 1692 by Don Francisco de Seixas y Lovera. Some staining and ... More

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America. Containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With the addition of New York, and the greatest part of New England, as also of the bordering parts of the province of Quebec, improved from several surveys made after the late war, and corrected from Governor Pownall's late map 1776.

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America. Containing V...

Scale ca. 1:2,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "The seat of the war in the middle British colonies, containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, &ca." From the author's The American mil... More

De re coquinaria, 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

De re coquinaria, 15th century - Public domain medieval manuscript

Goff A-921 Hain 1283 = 1283, note (variant) BM 15th cent., VI, p. 789 (IA.26887) GW 2267 (+ note) IGI 750 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: first 2 leaves wanting.

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