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David Rumsey Map Collection

The David Rumsey Map Collection was founded in 1985 and went online in 1999 at davidrumsey.com. The collection includes over 200,000 rare 16th through 21st century maps of the entire World and parts of the Universe. 115,000 maps and related items are available online and 60,000 of those have been georeferenced. Rumsey has been donating the physical map collection and the digital database made from it to the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries since 2008. The map center opened in 2016.T...



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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14093.000 is a part of image group 14093.000 . Lithographed world map, in color. Shows political boundaries and military events of World War II, from March 27 to April 2, 1942. Relief illustrated with hachures. Descriptive text throughout, e.g.: Scene of Arctic Sea Battle. Map indexed according to historical notes beneath map. Features photographs, illustrations, and international time zones. With two inset maps: (North to...
Topics: World War II, Pictorial map, Military, Historical, Statistical, Data Visualization
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David Rumsey Map Collection
by Martin, R.M.; Tallis, J. & F.; Rapkin, John
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10095.098 is a part of image group 10095.000 . Maps by J. Rapkin. This edition with the town plans. Date estimated. This copy has the complete Index/Gazetteer, as issued. This edition has a second title page for the index gazetteer. Maps are hand colored with outline color, and bound in a separate volume from the Index/Gazetteer. P804.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10007.001 is a part of image group 10007.000 . Pictorial map of Southern California, on sheet 58x88, Folded into self wrappers 22x10. Relief shown pictorially. Extends from Malibu Beach, to Ensenada, centered on San Juan Capistrano in the west. Death Valley, Las Vegas, Needles, to the Arizona boarder on the east. Covers the counties of San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial. It shows...
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 0438.003 is a part of image group 0438.000 . A later edition of the 1826 atlas, published by William H. Lizars, a Scottish painter and engraver. Date is on the spine only. Atlas contains 69 double-page engraved hand colored in outline map sheets, contents ”Index to the maps”, numbered 1-70, as listed but no. 32 omitted, no. 70 is double-page engraved “Table of mountain chains”, and 16 pages of index to the name of...
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by Turner, Stanley; The United States Printing and Lithograph Company
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8713.004 is a part of image group 8713.000 . Shows events through November 27, 1942. A series of war maps issued periodically - note edition. Mercator projection. Full color. Copyright date of 1942 does not reflect the later content.
Topics: World War II, Pictorial map, Military
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2532.002 is a part of image group 2532.000 . Shows "Car and Stage Routes." This is an early "transit map" of New York City. Also shows the elevated railways with station stops. An excellent map. Folded into red card board covers 13x8.5 with "Edsall's New York City Guide Map. For Pocket Use. Price 25 Cents. Van Kleeck, Clark & Co. Sole Agents, 233 Broadway, New York." in gilt. See note...
Topic: Transit
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13219.071 is a part of image group 13219.000 . Color Air Force Base plan. In lower panel: Restricted security information". Includes key to indication and colored key to Air Force base facilities. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. On verso: Vicinity map. Collection of the United States Air Force restricted Master Plans, dated 1953. Consists of Two index sheets and 268 maps, including municipal airport...
Topic: Airports
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11511.002 is a part of image group 11511.000 . Large and impressive outline colored copperplate engraving map of Pomerania on 12 sheets, 42x54 or smaller, by Eilhard Lubin, Professor at the University of Rostock. In 1610 he was asked by Philipp II, the Duke of Pomerania to create a large scale map of the geography and history of the duchy. In 1612 map was completed, it was decorated with 49 town views, and coat of arms of...
Topics: Historical, Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6000.010 is a part of image group 6000.000 . A huge and impressive twenty three foot long chart showing 5,885 years of history, from 4004 B.C.. to 1881 A.D. First issued in 1871, Adams put out several editions in many formats. Rosenberg and Grafton in "Cartographies of Time" say that as a timeline, Adams Synchronological Chart "was ninetheenth-century America's surpassing achievement in complexity and...
Topics: Historical, Data Visualization
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10078.000 is a part of image group 10078.000 . Color pictorial map of South America, with decorative title cartouche and borders, depict countries, regions, major cities, industries, agriculture, Indian settlements and wildlife. Includes decorative compass rose oriented with the north to upper margin. Relief shown pictorially. Map with decorative title cartouche and borders, depict countries, major cities, industries,...
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13009.000 is a part of image group 13009.000 . Color map of the Province of Buenos Aires, printed in Buenos Aires. Drawn and published by F. Taylor, printed by Martin Jaureguy. Published shortly before the Federalization of the region, after independence from Spain in 1816. Map represents a detailed overview of the province, showing boundaries, cities, pueblos, villages, roads, railroads, Lagoons, meadows, etc. Includes a...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11285.000 is a part of image group 11285.000 . Color map divided into 14 provinces. Showing cities and towns, the progress of the delivery of water and electricity to municipalities throughout Iraq under King Faisal II (1935-1958), but apparently continued following overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy on July 14, 1858 and establishment of the Republic of Iraq. At the bottom right, a table track the Revenues and...
Topics: Water, Energy
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by Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594; Mercator, Rumold, approximately 1545-1599
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10805.002 is a part of image group 10805.000 . This plate was originally published in 1595 in the posthumous part III of Mercator's Atlas. Verso: Latin text, 'Polus Arcticus Ac Terrarum Circumiacention descriptio' "The rare first state of Mercator's map of the North Polar regions, the first separately-published map of the North Polar Regions. It shows the North Pole surrounded by four islands, an iconic...
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by De Agostini, Giovanni; Nicouline, Vsevolod Petrovic 1890-1962; SAGDOS
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 7964.022 is a part of image group 7964.000 . Colorful small map with vignettes of structures, nature, activities, products, crops, etc. Towns and cities labeled. Gilt used on most maps. Library bound travel guide with many colorful pictorial maps. Vsevolod Petrovic Nicouline was a renowned Russian painter, printmaker, ceramicist, designer and illustrator born in the Ukraine in 1890. For a time he was with the Imperial...
Topic: Pictorial map
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by Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12041.089 is a part of image group 12041.000 . Map dates based upon date of index to that sheet. This is the first issue of Seutter's Atlas Novus with the first issue of the title page and first issues of many of the maps. Page numbers of maps shown on tabs - missing ones shown in parentheses. Corresponding alphabetical index sheets numbered in Full Title field to match map numbers. Color. Relief shown by sketches. In...
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by Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594; Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612; Hondius, Hendrik, 1597-1651
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10534.107 is a part of image group 10534.000 . "This is the first edition with the name of Henricus Hondius on the title page. The Latin Atlas is enlarged with the same six new maps of French provinces as appeared in the 1619 French edition (1:113): (49) Saintonge, (54) Picardie, (55) Champagne, (56) Beauvais, (60) Bourbonnais, and (62) ~ercy. As in the 1619 French edition the 1585 Mercator map of France (map 46) is...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11598.183 is a part of image group 11598.000 . Engraved hand-colored in outline, double-page map, with decorative title cartouche. Shows administrative divisions, cities, towns, landmarks, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Map no. in upper margin "L. IV." Zatta's atlas in 4 volumes, dated MDCCLXXIX - MDCCLXXXIV (1779-1784). The most comprehensive world atlas issued in Italy in the 18th. century,...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.033 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Hand colored engraved view of the highest mountains in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, as well as the heights of other significant locations in the British Isles. Includes notes: "The smaller figures denote the geological formations of the hills" and landmarks. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and...
Topics: Pictorial map, Data Visualization, Mountains, Rivers
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6809.021 is a part of image group 6809.000 . Color map with 4 insets. Includes explanation of ethnic groupings by color: Indo-European, Caucasian, and Uralo-Altaic. Prime meridian is Greenwich. Second and New edition of The Times Atlas published in 1900 (see our 1895 first edition, 1010.000), containing 132 pages of maps and comprising 196 maps and an alphabetical index of 135,000 names. This is the English version of the...
Topics: Ethnography, Nationality, Race
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12041.002 is a part of image group 12041.000 . A spectacular full page full color title. This is the first issue of Seutter's Atlas Novus with the first issue of the title page and first issues of many of the maps. Page numbers of maps shown on tabs - missing ones shown in parentheses. Corresponding alphabetical index sheets numbered in Full Title field to match map numbers. Color. Relief shown by sketches. In German...
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by Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667; Sanson, Guillaume (1633-1703)
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9741.152 is a part of image group 9741.000 . This is a very rare edition of Sanson's maps, published by his son, Guillaume Sanson. The title page is dated 1697 but the latest date on a map in the atlas is 1709. In French and Latin. Three volume set. Volume I is a huge set of hierarchies presenting the relative arrangement of thousands of places. Each page has from four to six levels of places, for example ranging from a...
Topic: Classical
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2340.016 is a part of image group 2340.000 . Color view in volume 1, 1858. Impressive map of the Southwest entitled, "Map Illustrating Baldwin Mollhausen's Travels from the Mississippi to the Coast of the Pacific, in the years 1853-1854." Map engraved by Edward Weller. 2 volumes, with an introduction by Humboldt. Excellent account. The map is an English copy of the German edition original by Henry Lange....
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9891.001 is a part of image group 9891.000 . Color map, 45x45, folded to 18x9. Designed by Massimo Vignelli. Shows Individual route and stations. Key to map, route and schedule information at upper panel. On verso: Key to routes and index to points of interest. See note field above.
Topics: Subway, Pictorial map, Transit
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13218.018 is a part of image group 13218.000 . Section 5: Descriptive text. This Atlas of Africa was developed to commemorate the centennial of Justus Perthes, Geographische Anstalt (Geographical Institute) in Gotha, towards a better understanding of African exploration and mapping at the end of the nineteenth century. It was first published in 1885 (this copy) following the Berlin West Africa Conference of 1884, and went...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13272.423 is a part of image group 13272.000 . Engraved folded genealogical tree of the Kings of the Orient and the Ottomans, with those of Jerusalem, Cyprus and Armenia, with inset map: Carte De L'Empire Des Turcs En Europe Et Asie. Includes descriptive text. First edition of this Historical atlas of the world, with new introduction to history and chronology and updated maps, in 7 volumes, dated 1714-1720. By Henri...
Topic: Historical
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 4520C is a part of image group 4520.000 . Page on the left is an explanation of abbreviations used in the atlas as well as an example. The contents are on the right. The fourth edition of Rand McNally's first atlas, dated 1878-9 on the title page. The first edition was issued in 1876-77, and only included the Pacific slope states. Phillips shows editions of 1876-77, 1877, 1878, 1878-79, and 1880. Maps with printed full and...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13219.065 is a part of image group 13219.000 . Folded colored plan of Air Force Base. In lower panel: Restricted security information". Includes key to indication and colored key to Air Force base facilities. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. On verso: Vicinity map. Collection of the United States Air Force restricted Master Plans, dated 1953. Consists of Two index sheets and 268 maps, including municipal...
Topic: Airports
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by Briet, Philip, 1601-1668; Cramoisy, Sebastiani; Cramoisy, Gabrielis
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12063.031 is a part of image group 12063.000 . Mostly in Latin; many maps in French. Two volumes bound together. Most have outline color. Pub Date based on newer, second volume, 1649. Relief shown by sketches. Complete text is available at http://hdl.handle.net Complete 1649 text also available at https://archive.org
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by Beghin, Jean-Luc; Spirou, Marcinelle, Belgique
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13670.000 is a part of image group 13670.000 . Poster drawing of interior of the Apollo cabin, supplement to the Spirou magazine. Illustrated by Jean Luc Beghin 1970. Includes text, insets showing Apollo landing, photographs of astronaut and mission patches for Apollo VIII – Apollo XIII, and detailed plan of the Apollo command module.
Topics: Pictorial map, Exploration, Space
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11575.021 is a part of image group 11575.000 . Copper engraved double page map, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche. Engraved by J, L'Huilier. Showing administrative divisions, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, forests, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Atlas of Africa, dedicated to Nicolas Fouquet, with 18 double page of maps, each followed by several pages of text describing the area...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14351.106 is a part of image group 14351.000 . Nautical chart showing the Madeira Islands and Porto Santo Island. Parallel titles appears in Dutch and French, translating (loosely) to: Nautical chart of the Islands of Madeira and Porto Santo ... Features cities, roads, ports, topography, coastlines, shoals, islands, anchorage, soundings and a ship. Relief shown pictorially. Includes three bar scales, latitudinal and...
Topic: Nautical Charts
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 4474.004 is a part of image group 4474.000 . Double-page display of the Flags and coins of Various Nations, with a circular chart of time "When it is 12 o'clock noon at the National Observatory, Washington. the time is a follows at the places named. The difference of time between the extreme E. and W. points of the U.S. is 3h. 51m. 5 sec." 1872 was the first edition, although Lloyd's maps from this atlas, in...
Topic: Emblems (Flags, Coats-of-Arms)
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11749.000 is a part of image group 11749.000 . Pictorial bird's eye view map of New York City, mounted on linen, humorously designed by Joseph B. Platt. Printed by the Ritchey Litho Corp. Published by Washington Square Bookshop. Bordered by decorative text that reads "Here is a map to give you pleasure, a town reduced to your mantel's measure, city of gayety, city of gold, your Bagdad on Hudson, three hundred years...
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Topics: Pictorial map, Satirical
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14067.000 is a part of image group 14067.000 . Pictorial map of Europe, Asia and Northern Africa, in color. Shows medieval history with historical sites, such as the Great Wall of China, and events, such as "Arabs bring oriental culture to Spain". Descriptive text in margins, e.g.: Norse and Icelandic legends are preserved in "Sagas" and "Eddas". Text wraps the outermost edge, from "Fifth...
Topics: Pictorial map, Historical
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13007.098 is a part of image group 13007.000 . Hand color plan of Babylon (Extinct city). Shows place names, landmarks, roads, trails, rivers, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Includes legend. An Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical by Sir William Smith, published to complement his Greek and Roman dictionaries. Contains forty-three maps, indices, and descriptive text. Maps drawn and produced by...
Topics: Historical, Classical
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2674.000 is a part of image group 2674.000 . Shows great detail and accuracy. Wheat: "This is one of the best, as well as one of the rarest maps of the period." See also Trask's various Geological studies of California. Bancroft duplicate. Map is full color by county. Wheat Gold 246. Wheat, C.I. Maps of the Calif. gold region, 246; Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi west, v. 3, 796.
Topic: California Gold Rush
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8328.169 is a part of image group 8328.000 . 2 outline hand color maps on 1 page. Shows administrative boundaries, cities and towns. Early topographical map of Europe, together with the colonies for businessmen, newspaper readers ... by German geographical author, Wilhelm August von Schlieben (1781-1839), published in parts from 1825-1830, in 3 volumes, and 15 parts; volume 1: 1-5, Volume 2: 6-10, Volume 3: 11-15. Each...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11623.043 is a part of image group 11623.000 . Woodcut uncolored 2nd. map of Asia. Covers the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Shows cities, towns, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes list town names. First edition of Sebastian Munster’s Geographia Universalis, published in 1540. A new and important edition of Ptolemy, with redesigned maps and the text revised by Sebastian Munster, based...
Topic: Classical
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9783.001 is a part of image group 9783.000 . Includes small vicinity maps of Bellingham, Yakima, Tacoma, and Seattle. Copyrighted State of Washington - Department of Highways. Specially prepared by Rand McNally & Co.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13126.001 is a part of image group 13126.000 . WWII silk escape topographic maps, the cloth copies of the Air Ministry GSGS 3982 paper series, as issued by the M19 to a US Airman of the 9th AAF. 1939-1944. Ten cloth maps were produced of the main Air Ministry series at a scale of approx. 1:2,500,000, while an additional 73 cloth maps were printed at a reduced size (13 in. x 15 in.) and with a scale of 1:500,000 scale. The...
Topics: World War II, Aeronautical charts
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by Panckoucke, C. L. F. (Charles Louis Fleury), 1780-1844; France. Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte; Conte, Nicolas
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10404.359 is a part of image group 10404.000 . Antiquités V This is the second edition of the Description de l'Égypte, the eleven plate volumes published between 1821 and 1826 and the twenty four text volumes published between 1821 and 1830. The first edition was published from 1809 to 1828. The plate volumes of the second edition contain the same plates as the first, but remain uncolored except for the frontispiece...
Topic: Historical
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by Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12499.157 is a part of image group 12499.000 . This 12 cm thick volume has a regular title page, handwritten table of contents, and introductory 42 page text in Gothic German. The decorative title page and maps are in Latin or German. Maps hand colored and lavishly illustrated. "Johann Babtiste Homann (1664-1724), Nuremberg, was born in Oberkammlach, the Electorate of Bavaria. Although educated at a Jesuit school, and...
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by Monte (Monti), Urbano, 1544-1613
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10130.085 is a part of image group 10130.000 . Composite map of the first ring of four sheets around the north pole, the second ring of 8 sheets, the third ring of 12 sheets, the fourth ring of 18 sheets, and the fifth ring of 18 sheets. “An important and extraordinary manuscript world map drawn up on a north polar projection to form the largest manuscript map of the world at 9 by 9 feet. This map is one of 3 examples...
Topic: Art
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by Bayer, Johann (1572-1625)
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12181.014 is a part of image group 12181.000 . "51 unfolded engraved plates of celestial constellations by Alexander Mair. The very rare fourth edition of Bayer's Uranometria (first published in 1603), the first atlas to cover the entire celestial sphere, in fifty-one star charts, including one containing twelve new constellations unknown to Ptolemy. The illustrations are based on Jacob de Gheyn's designs for the...
Topic: Celestial
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11259.001 is a part of image group 11259.000 . Color map of the United States on sheet 46x81, folded to 23x10. Showing state boundaries, place names, roads, rivers, railroad stations, locations of air fields, naval and army installations. Text on verso includes List of military posts, strategic middle routes and location of Union Pacific Offices. See note field above.
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by Coronelli, Vincenzo (1650-1718)
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10070.013 is a part of image group 10070.000 . Date estimated. Images provided by the State Library of New South Wales where the original printed globe gores reside. From the catalog record of the library: "1 globe on 26 sheets ; 24 globe gores each 27.5 x 64 x 9.5 x 64 cm. and 2 polar calottes 36 cm. diam. Relief shown pictorially. Title from 'The works printed by Father Coronelli' in Epitome Cosmografica M DC...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14075.000 is a part of image group 14075.000 . Pictorial military map of the Great Britain, and part of Europe. Shows battle sites and locations of resources, such as electric power, coal and tanks. Includes a legend and descriptive text, as well as a decorative title cartouche. With inset: (Turin; Milan; Genoa). Map is 45 x 70 cm, on sheet 51 x 76 cm. For English edition of map in Collection, see Pub List No. 14074.000....
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.010 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Colored lithograph view of the musical instruments and music notes, a diagram of the human ear, etc., by John Emslie. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related text, dated 1849-1852. Drawn and engraved by...
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by Erkan-ı Harbiye Dairesi (Imperial Military State College); Coğrafya Cemiyeti Askeriyesi (Military Survey Office)
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10417.000 is a part of image group 10417.000 . 1291 Rumi Calendar [1875]. The first Ottoman printed map of Montenegro. Alexander Johnson: "Extremely rare – the finest printed Ottoman map of Montenegro and the surrounding region ever created, the culmination of forty years of advanced military and boundary surveys, produced by the Ottoman Military Survey Office in Istanbul in 1875, on the eve of the...
Topic: Ottoman Mapping
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 1147.042 is a part of image group 1147.000 . Hand col. lithographed map. Shows townships, sections, etc. The first Michigan State atlas. Full color. Bound in half leather brown cloth covers with title reading "Atlas of the State of Michigan" stamped in gold on the front and blind stamped on the back. Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900, 5-2112; Karpinski, 478; Phillips, 1960; Phillips Maps of...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11487.170 is a part of image group 11487.000 . Copper engraved map of Africa. Shows towns, villages, landmarks, mountains, and rivers. Relief shown pictorially. First reworked edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor issued by the Janssonius heirs (Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge) in 1673, without text or printed index. With engraved architectural and emblematic title page, and 183 copperplate engraved maps. Printed from the...
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by Turner, Stanley; Petersen, C.C.; International Circulation Co. Inc.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9611.002 is a part of image group 9611.000 . Includes 7 photos of war scenes. Pictures by International News Photos. Mercator's projection. Color.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13676.039 is a part of image group 13676.000 . Color map of European part of the USSR, with illustration. Showing power plants and the electrification network. Includes text and legend. 1936 statistical album of the social construction of the USSR. Compiled on the basis of the state organization and national economic year 1935 and the plan of 1936. The statistical data given in comparison with the previous years of...
Topics: Data Visualization, Energy, Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10240.003 is a part of image group 10240.000 . Lithograph, colored, Ethnographic map of Russia by Lieutenant Aleksandr Fyodorovich Rittikh. Printed by C.Hellfahrth in Gotha. 1 map on 2 sheets 98 x 64, sheets 56 x 67. Originally published in St. Petersburg, the Russian title of the map is: Ethnografischeskaia karta Europeiskoi Rossi. The map exhibited the gradual absorption of the minor nationalities of the great Russian...
Topics: Ethnography, Nationality, Race
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David Rumsey Map Collection
by Péron, François, 1775-1810; Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846; Aubert, L.; Milbert, Jacques Gérard, 1766-1840; Langlois; Canu
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14352.070 is a part of image group 14352.000 . Illustration of long-tailed dasyures in New South Wales, "New Holland" [Australia]. Features a pair of dasyures eating the meat from a fresh kill. Relief shown pictorially. Colored engraving. View is 11 x 25 cm, on sheet 27 x 36 cm. Appears in Atlas I. The rare complete official narrative and hydrography of the great French voyage of the Napoleonic period, the...
Topic: Zoological
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12516.027 is a part of image group 12516.000 . This atlas is one in a series of annual or biannual editions; we have from the period 1879 - 1900. In French. Most maps have a detailed inset showing the map's theme as it applies to the vicinity of Paris. The maps were inspired by the earlier work of Charles Joseph Minard (see our copies of 15 of his maps/diagrams). Émile Cheysson created these Albums of Statistics for the...
Topics: Transportation, Data Visualization
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2792.016 is a part of image group 2792.000 . Map uncolored. 1st edition. 28 District maps, 1 State map. The District maps are derived from surveys done for John Wilson's 1822 Map of South Carolina, also engraved by Tanner. Mills' Atlas is the first State Atlas; it was reissued with slight revisions in 1838. This copy has the signature of Thomas Carr of Georgetown, one of the original subscribers who are listed in the...
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by Borghi, Bartolomeo, 1750-1821; Canacci, Giuseppe
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14255.031 is a part of image group 14255.000 . Engraved political map of the British Isles, with hand-colored outlines delineating boundaries. Title translates to: [The British Isles]. Shows political boundaries, topography, drainage, coastlines, islands and routes of travel. Relief shown pictorially. With latitudinal and longitudinal lines. Imprint beneath title. Map is 30 x 22 cm, on sheet 47 x 35 cm. Descriptive text...
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by Diercke, Carl, 1842-1913; Gaebler, Eduard, 1842-1911
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12198.038 is a part of image group 12198.000 . First edition. Espenhorst: " The Diercke atlas is the best known German school atlas and is still being published today. From the beginning it employed the use of hypsometric coloring, and in so doing was far ahead of the rest of the cartographic profession, who would have no part in this style of map-making. "
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13301.063 is a part of image group 13301.000 . Engraved nautical chart, with insets: The Island of Kelduyn; The River of Kola in the great Besteck. Depth shown by soundings and rhumb lines. Includes compass roses oriented with north to the lower right. Relief shown pictorially. The second part of the English Pilot atlas, for the northern navigation. This edition published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London, 1756....
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by Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) (Nazi German Supreme Command of the Armed Forces)
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 7807.233 is a part of image group 7807.000 . A set of German documents prepared for Operation Sea Lion, the planned Nazi invasion of England and Wales. (See Pub List No 7807.000 through 7811.000). Materials are 11 A4 sized folders, each containing maps and a book of photographs including 144 town maps and 1500+ photographs. Set also has three thick A5 sized folders containing books with photographs, drawings and maps:...
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by Vandermaelen, Philippe, 1795-1869; Ode, Henri; Hassel, S. G. H., 1779-1829
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2212.194 is a part of image group 2212.000 . Hand col. lithographed map. Prime meridian: Paris. Includes text: Note sur les Hottentots. Pour le commencement voyez la carte no. 50. A complete set of the six volume Atlas Universel in original bindings of half red leather teal cloth covered boards with title "Vandermaelen. Atlas Universel..." embossed in gold on the spine. This monumental work was the first atlas of...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2332.002 is a part of image group 2332.000 . Date penciled on cover. Distribution of white ash and ponderosa or yellow pine. Relief shown in stippling. The Prairie category is less than 20% forested. Loose in a folio. 10th census information. Show distribution of trees and types of trees. None of this information appears in any of the census atlases. Maps are printed in color and loose in plaid paper covered boards with...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11510.078 is a part of image group 11510.000 . 1 map on 4 sheets. Engraved outline hand colored map with title carthouche. Shows administrative divisions, major cities, towns, villages, landmarks, public buildings, roads, rivers, canals, forests and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian is Tenerife. Includes explanation to symbols, descriptive text, and alphanumeric key to convents and monasteries. Second...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11510.017 is a part of image group 11510.000 . 1 map on 4 sheets, 6-9. Engraved outline hand colored map of Burgos Province, with title carthouche. Shows administrative divisions, major cities, towns, villages, landmarks, public buildings, roads, rivers, canals, forests and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian is Tenerife. Includes legend, notes and alphanumeric key to convents and monasteries in province....
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by Panckoucke, C. L. F. (Charles Louis Fleury), 1780-1844; France. Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte; Conte, Nicolas
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10404.130 is a part of image group 10404.000 . Antiquités II This is the second edition of the Description de l'Égypte, the eleven plate volumes published between 1821 and 1826 and the twenty four text volumes published between 1821 and 1830. The first edition was published from 1809 to 1828. The plate volumes of the second edition contain the same plates as the first, but remain uncolored except for the frontispiece...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10154.016 is a part of image group 10154.000 . Date 1 map on 40 sheets bound in volume : hand-coloured, copplerplate engraving ; 40.5 x 30.5 cm (each plate) Includes cartouche with title in Latin decorated with garlands of fruit and male and female figures holding drapery, cartouche with scale bars, cartouche with title and production details in French flanked by figures of fisherman and peasant under coat of arms,...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13423.210 is a part of image group 13423.000 . Descriptive text to the 4th. book: The new Persian travel description of the trip from Moscow to Persia. Adam Olearius detailed description of the travel and exploration in Russia and Persia, published for the third and last time by Johan Holwein, Schlesswig in 1663. Adam Olearius was a secretary to an embassy sent by the German state of Holstein by Frederick, Duke of Holstein...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13047.030 is a part of image group 13047.000 . Descriptive text of the City of Paris. 1765 edition of Pasquier and Denis, Plan of the City of Paris. Includes 44 double-page and folding hand colored maps, of which 40 are numbered, descriptive text, with engraved title-page with dedication text and Preface, with vignettes throughout, in 149 pages and 34 pages of index to hotels, names of streets, coaches and carosses, etc....
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11730.027 is a part of image group 11730.000 . Descriptive text, with index, statistical tables, reference to rivers, lakes, mountains, islands and reefs. Bartholomew, Fullarton's hand atlas of the world. Published by A. Fullarton & Company in fifteen monthly parts at two Shillings each. Part 14 includes a comprehensive General Index and abbreviations that continues to Part 15. Title from part 15, with pictorial half...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2175.044 is a part of image group 2175.000 . Relief shown by hachures. Countries and provinces outlined in color. Unusual Map projections. Outline color. P4327.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10841.000 is a part of image group 10841.000 . Dated 1321 [1905]. "An exceedingly rare and uncommonly beautiful map of Eastern Anatolia and Armenia made by the famous landscape artist Hoca Ali Rıza as an operational map to aid the Ottoman Army in patrolling a region that was rife with arms and commodities smuggling, spies and agents provocateurs, and violent Armenian insurrections; published in Istanbul by the press...
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by Budapest (Hungary). Föváros Statisztikai Hivatal; Illyefalvi, Lajos I., 1881-1944
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14247.012 is a part of image group 14247.000 . One colored map, overlaid with data visualization and accompanied by twenty diagrams, representing gender, age and marital status of the population in Budapest and greater Hungary, from 1920 to 1930. Includes legends, as well as explanatory text. In both Hungarian and German. Together, map and diagrams are 23 x 30 cm, on sheet 26 x 35 cm. Third volume of three-volume city and...
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by USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 1603.100 is a part of image group 1603.000 . This second edition of the Atlas of the World (1st edition in 1954) has fewer maps of the USSR on account of the interim publication of the "Atlas of the USSR", three fewer historical maps due to then impending publication of the "Historical Atlas of the World", and many new maps and revisions. The Atlas was considered accurate in terms of contemporary...
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by Coronelli, Vincenzo (1650-1718)
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12186.019 is a part of image group 12186.000 . This is the first atlas volume of the Atlante Veneto. "The Atlante Veneto (1690-1701) was a comprehensive atlas published by the Franciscan geographer Vincenzo Maria Coronelli and intended as a continuation of the Blaeu Atlas Maior. This monumental work was published in thirteen folios and provided a wealth of detail covering ancient and modern cartographers and...
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