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Frontispiece to the 2nd Edition of Lord St[anhop]e's Observations on M...

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Observations on the Opening of Yokohama (Yokohama kaikō kenbunshi) Uta...

Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide (Japanese, 1807–1878/79) Edo period (1615–1868)

Observations on the Opening of Yokohama (Yokohama kaiko kenbunshi)

Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide (Japanese, 1807–1878/79) Edo period (1615–1868)

L'Afrique, ou Lybie ulterieure : ou font le Saara, or desért, le pays ...

L'Asie, : Selon les nouvelles observations de Mess.rs de l'Academie de...

Relief shown pictorially. Insets maps: Kamchadka to Korea to Indo-China; Beijing, China to Yellow Sea. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Amérique septentrion.lle [i.e. septentrionale] : composée, corigée, et...

A new chart of the vast Atlantic Ocean : exhibiting the seat of war, b...

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L'Amerique septentrionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'...

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Les Isles Britanniques : ou sont le Royaume d'Angleterre tire ́de Sped...

Planisphaerivm Aratevm sive Compages Orbivm Mvndanorvm ex hypothesi Ar...

Appears in Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia macrocosmica. Amstelodami : Apud Gerardum Valk & Petrum Schenk, 1708. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy accompanied by pho... More

L'Amerique septentrionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'...

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North America : corrected from the observations communicated to the Ro...

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L'Amerique meridionale, dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Acad...

Scale ca. 1:18,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Imprint date from R. V. Tooley's French mapping of the Americas, item 66. "Je rends raison dans ma Nouvelle introduction a ... More

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

La Floride : suivant les nouvelles observations de Messrs. de l'Academ...

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This map of North America, according to ye newest and most exact obser...

Scale ca. 1:15,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers, Baron of Evesham in ye county of Worcester, President of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council &... More

A map of the West-Indies or the islands of America in the North Sea; w...

Scale ca. 1:4,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Sold by H. Moll and by I. King at ye Globe in ye Poultrey near Stocks Market." "To Wil. Paterson esq; this map of the West-Indies &c. is most humb... More

L'Amerique septentrionale. Dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'A...

Scale ca. 1:18,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Imprint date from R. V. Tooley's French mapping of the Americas, item 31. Cartouche engraved by N. Guérard. Available also ... More

Carte des Antilles françoises et des isles voisines. Dressée sur les m...

Scale ca. 1:890,000. Hand colored. Has watermarks. Relief shown pictorially. Imprint date from R. V. Tooley's French mapping of the Americas, item 54. Shows islands from Guadeloupe to Grenada, including Barbado... More

A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets...

Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 82A. LC copy imperfect: Darkened, use-worn, losses along edges, mounte... More

L'Amerique, ou, Le nouveau continent : dresseè sur les memoires les pl...

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A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets...

Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in ink on verso: Whiston's Solar System.

Africa : corrected from the observations of the Royal Society at Londo...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, rivers, forests and principal settlements, with tents symbolising areas inhabited by nomads, and notes. London meridian. "Drawn & Engrav'd by I. Senex." Available als... More

L'Amerique meridionale et septentrionale : dressèe sur les nouvles. de...

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manuscript from "The Toast. An heroick poem in four books, written ori...

This image has been taken from scan 000206 from "The Toast. An heroick poem in four books, written originally in Latin, by Frederick Scheffer: now done into English, and illustrated with notes and observations ... More

portrait from "The Toast. An heroick poem in four books, written origi...

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A new chart of the vast Atlantic Ocean : exhibiting the seat of war, b...

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L'Amérique septentrionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'...

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A map of North America with the European settlements & whatever else i...

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A New & Correct Mercator's Map of North Britain : carefully laid appro...

Dedicatoria : "To His Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces This Map of North Britain is most humbly Dedicated by his Royal Highnesses most Faithful & most Obedt. ... More

A map of North America : with the European settlements & whatever else...

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Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France : et des découvertes qui y on...

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A new and accurate map of New Jersey, Pensilvania, New York and New En...

Relief shown pictorially. From the author's A complete system of geography. 1747. Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "No. 100." Vault AACR2

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

An accurate map of the West Indies. Drawn from the best authorities, a...

Scale ca. 1:12,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 57." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1682 Available also t... More

Observations sur les antiquités de la ville d'Herculanum avec quelques...

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L'Amerique, divisée en tous ses pays et etats : dressée sur de nouveau...

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the left. Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 133 Includes inset of eastern and western hemispheres, text, and cartouche. Available also through the L... More

Observations sur les Antiquites de la ville d'Herculanum, Avec quelque...

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Observations sur les Antiquites de la ville d'Herculanum, Avec quelque...

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Les Échappemens à repos comparés aux echappemens à recul; et Examen de...

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Les Échappemens à repos comparés aux echappemens à recul; et Examen de...

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L'Amerique septentrionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'...

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L'Amerique : divisèe en ses principaux etats, assujetie aux observatio...

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A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provin...

Scale ca. 1:440,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. LC copy annotated in ink, east of confluence of Hudson and Albany rivers: "The tide reaches to hereabouts. Douglas.... More

[Title page of Anthony Benezet, Observations on the Inslaving, importi...

Illus. in: Anthony Benezet, Observations on the Inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes; ... extracted from ... the Yearly-meeting of ... Quakers. Germantown, 1760, title page. Reference copy may be in L... More

L'Amérique septentrionale. Dressée sur les observations de mrs. de l'A...

Scale ca. 1:19,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows some routes of exploration, land and sea. Includes "Avertissement." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster imag... More

Samuel Foote from "Observations, good or bad, stupid or clever, seriou...

This image has been taken from scan 000004 from "Observations, good or bad, stupid or clever, serious or jocular, on Squire Foote's dramatic entertainment, intitled, The minor. By a genius [i.e. James Boswell]"... More

A general map of North America : in which is express'd the several new...

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A new and accurate map of the British dominions in America, according ...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing to fold. to 19 x 14 cm. Relief shown pictorially. Label "États unis de l'Amérique" on verso. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 104 ... More

A new and accurate map of North America : laid down according to the l...

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Carte Général de la Georgie et de L'Armenie : Dessinée à Petersbourg e...

Comprendse las repúblicas de Georgia, Armenia y la parte septentrional de la de Azerbajan

A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provin...

Scale ca. 1:800,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Publish'd 1st. Jany. 1771." Differs from other copy, shows boundary between New York and "Province of New Hampshire." LC Maps of North America, 1750... More

A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provin...

Scale ca. 1:800,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Publish'd 1st. Jany. 1771." Differs from other copy, does not show boundary between New York and "Province of New Hampshire." LC Maps of North Ameri... More

Observations relative to the manufacture of paper and printed books in...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 143, Folder 27.

Oeuvres de Moliere : avec des remarques grammaticales, des avertisseme...

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Oeuvres de Moliere : avec des remarques grammaticales, des avertisseme...

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A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provin...

Scale ca. 1:440,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. Relief shown pictorially. Includes compilation data and insets of "A plan of the town of Boston" and "A plan of Boston Harbor from an accurat... More

[Diagrams of various electrical phenomena and title page of Experiment...

Frontispiece and title page in: Experiments and observations of electricity / Benjamin Franklin. London : Printed for F. Newbery, 1774. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C... More

A new map of Nova Scotia, and Cape Breton Island with the adjacent par...

Scale ca. 1:1,900,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "VII" located above upper right corner of border. Shows Maritime Provinces, New England, and St. Lawrence Valley region ... More

[Waterfall in Dusky Bay with Maori canoe]

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A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provin...

Scale ca. 1:460,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London and Ferron. Relief shown pictorially. Includes note "Camp of the colonists 1776," across the Hudson River from Kings Bridge and insets "Ichnographia por... More

A plan of the town of Boston, with the intrenchments &c. of His Majest...

Scale ca. 1:9,700. Includes "References to the lines &c." and "References to the town." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 934 Vault ... More

A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provin...

Scale ca. 1:440,000. Alternate title: La Nouvelle Angleterre en 4 feuilles. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. Relief shown pictorially. From the author's Atlas amériquain septentrional. 1778-[92] ... More

A plan of the town of Boston with the intrenchments &ca. of His Majest...

Scale ca. 1:9,600. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. "N.B. Since the evacuation of Boston ... " LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 933 Available also through the Library of Con... More

A general map of North America; from the latest observations.

Scale ca. 1:10,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. From The North-American and West-Indian gazetteer. 1778. Includes distance chart. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

North Britain or Scotland Divided into its Counties : Corrected from t...

Escala gráfica de 40 millas estatutarias inglesas [= 8,1 cm]. Coordenadas referidas al meridiano de Londres (O 8°5'--O 1°25'/N 59°20'--N 54°45'). Red geográfica de 1° en 1°. Orientado con lis en rosa de ocho vientos

A general map of North America; from the latest observations.

Scale ca. 1:10,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. Includes distance chart. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

Théatre de la guerre en Amerique, avec les Isles Antilles; projetté et...

Scale ca. 1:10,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. In upper margin: XXXIV. Theatre de la guerre en Amerique. A 32. LC copy annotated in black ink: 42. Available also through the Library of Congress... More

A chart of Delawar Bay, with soundings and nautical observations.

Scale ca. 1:150,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy imperfect: Deteriorated along left and right margins. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Narrative of Events and Observations That Occurred during a Journey th...

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Nle. carte d'Amerique : dressée sur les mémoires les plus récens et as...

Relief shown pictorially. Originally published in 1770. Prime meridian: Ferro. Gift; Raymond Nasher; October, 1998. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes inset of t... More

The West Indies, including part of Virginia, North Carolina, East Flor...

Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1713 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

This map of Kentucke : drawn from actual observations, is inscribed wi...

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Border hand col. Includes inscriptions. Gift and purchase; Partially funded by J. Thomas Touchton, made in memory of his Kentucky-born grandmother, Ruth E... More

This map of Kentucke, drawn from actual observations, is inscribed wit...

Scale 1:633,600; 10 miles to an in. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Includes inscriptions. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 792 Available also through the Library of Co... More

Meteorological observations, made at Springmill, 13 miles NNW. of Phil...

Imprint 2.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 147, Folder 2.

Kingdom of Hungary, Principality of Transilvania, Sclavonia, Croatia, ...

Comprende la república de Eslovaquia, Hungría, Yugoslavia septentrional, Rumanía occidental y una pequeña parte del suroccidente de la URSS

La Carte Topographique de Spa : et de toutes de Fontaines, Minerales, ...

Presenta el plano de la ciudad y gran parte de los alrededores, destacándose la señalización de los caminos y fuertes

Bowles's new one-sheet map of Asia, divided into its empires, kingdoms...

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. "Published as the Act directs, 4 June 1971." Includes a methodical division of Asia into continents and islands. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

An inquiry into the causes of the insurrection of the Negroes in the i...

Thomas Jefferson, April 19, 1792, Observations on Mountain Rice

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Declaration of the Reverend Mr. David Jones. To the Citizens of the St...

Imprint 3.; Evans 35674. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 149, Folder 16.

An accurate map of North America from the latest improvements, and reg...

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To the free electors of Kings County. Having seen a handbill, signed "...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 113, Folder 1p.

map from "[Observations on a Tour through the Highlands.] Reise durch ...

This image has been taken from scan 000039 from volume 01 of "[Observations on a Tour through the Highlands.] Reise durch die schottischen Hochlande und einen Theil der Hebriden. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt u... More

map from "Statistical observations relative to the county of Kilkenny,...

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map from "Statistical observations relative to the county of Kilkenny,...

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portrait from "Statistical observations relative to the county of Kilk...

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diagram from "Statistical observations relative to the county of Kilke...

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map from "Statistical observations relative to the county of Kilkenny,...

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fauna from "Observations on Mr. Archer's statistical survey of the Cou...

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map from "Statistical observations relative to the county of Kilkenny,...

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map from "Statistical observations relative to the county of Kilkenny,...

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fauna from "Observations on Mr. Archer's statistical survey of the Cou...

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fauna from "Observations on Mr. Archer's statistical survey of the Cou...

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A chart of the Atlantic or Western Ocean : laid down from the latest d...

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map from "Observations on Mr. Archer's statistical survey of the Count...

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architecture from "Statistical observations relative to the county of ...

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fauna from "Observations on Mr. Archer's statistical survey of the Cou...

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diagram from "Statistical observations relative to the county of Kilke...

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map from "Observations on Mr. Archer's statistical survey of the Count...

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