[Zee-atlas]
Loots atlas
Nautical charts with numerous place-names along coastlines. Depths shown by soundings. Title from citation in Philip Lee Phillips' A list of geographical atlases, p. 246. Most maps in Dutch; text and titles in Dutch, French, English, or Latin on some maps. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 3464 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.…
Cartes et plans de l'Amerique.
Cartes geograp Ameriqu
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Dates on maps vary from 1717 to 1744. Title and date annotated in ink within etched title cartouche. Plates numbered in ink with a title often annotated on verso. A composite atlas of maps of North and South America and adjacent islands and oceans predominantly by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, including 17 manuscript maps, of which 8 are…
A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto
America Septentrionalis
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Title from plate 17. Originally published as 1 map on 20 sheets. LC copy bound. Index map bound-in. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569 On title cartouche (plate 17): C. Lempriere inv. & del., B. Baron, sculp. Includes notes, dedication, 4 views, and 17 harbor insets. Stamped in blue ink on verso of plates: U.S. Coast Survey…
Contributor:
Popple, Henry - Lemprière, C. (Clement) - Toms, W. H. (William Henry) - Baron, Bernard - Austen, Stephen - Willdey, Thomas
The Atlantic Neptune,
L.C. copy no. 1, with some 170 items; originally bound in 3 narrow folio volumes. Vol. 2, has general t.p. dated 1780, and 3 sectional title pages dated 1781, 1780, and 1780 respectively. Charts dated 1774 to 1782. L.C. copy imperfect: General and sectional title pages and contents leaf to v. 1 wanting. Cf. H. N. Stevens. Catalogue of the Henry Newton Stevens collection…
Contributor:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
The Atlantic Neptune,
L.C. copy no. 13, with 65 items. Charts dated 1775 to 1777. The general t.p. of v. 3 is dated MDCCLXXVI (1776), but a second roman numeral "I" following the first has been imperfectly erased on the sheet, indicating that the imprint date was originally MDCCLXXVII (1777). The sectional t.p. to v. 3 includes the reference to Lord Howe. L.C. copy imperfect: Charts of…
Contributor:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain,
L.C. copy no. 15, with 80 items. The first chart in the volume, "The coast of Nova Scotia, New England, New York, New Jersey, the Gulph and River of St. Lawrence," with imprint date Nov. 1, 1780, has an engr. note referring to the fishing rights of the French and the Americans, presumably added after the Treaty of Paris, 1783. Charts and views dated…
Contributor:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain,
L.C. copy no. 17, with 154 items. Vol. 1 has imprint date 1780; v. 2 has general t.p. dated 1781, and 3 sectional title pages dated 1781, 1780, and 1780 respectively. Charts dated 1774 to 1782. Vol. 1 includes the "Preface," followed by "Contents of the charts," engraved on 1 leaf, listing 3 to 36 numbered items in 2 columns, an inserted title, no.…
Contributor:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain,
L.C. copy no. 18, with 63 items. Charts dated 1775 to 1780. Consists of charts and views of the Nova Scotia series and of the combined St. Lawrence-New York sections. The engr. general t.p. of v. 1 is the original issue, dated 1777. The general title to the 2d volume is omitted. Sectional title pages to the St. Lawrence and New York sections are…
Contributor:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain,
L.C. Copy no. 19, with 112 items. Vols. 1 and 2 dated 1779; v. 3, without general t.p., has sectional t.p. to the New England section dated 1780. Charts and views dated 1775 to 1780. Two engr. sheets, headed "Contents of the charts" and "Views of the coast of Nova Scotia," respectively, follow the general title by v. 1 and are repeated after the…
Contributor:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain,
L.C. copy no. 20, with 25 items. Consists of the New England section only, in contemporary binding, probably issued in 1780. The general t.p. to v. 1 accompanying it, however, belongs with the Nova Scotia series of charts. In various dated "editions" the New England charts appear with general title pages called v. 2, 3, or 4, but not v. 1. The printed sectional…
Contributor:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
[The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain,
L.C. copy no. 22. Charts dated 1777 to 1780. Consists of the St. Lawrence and New York sections of the Atlantic Neptune, which in early "editions" formed b. 4, in 2 unnumbered pts., of the four series of charts. Each section has its own special t.p., but the general t.p. is wanting, probably indicating that this copy was sold separately. Presumably both sectional title…
Contributor:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet)
A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Europe]
Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Title from cover of composite atlas. Dates on maps range from 1684 to 1709. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 5152 An atlas factice of 117 hand col. maps on 115 sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Register in French. Maps in French, Dutch, Latin, and English.…
Contributor:
Mellin, Ludvig August - Champion, J. N. - Guimpel, Friedrich - Hartknoch, Johann Friedrich - Jaettnig, Karl - Franz, F. G. - Krause, Johann Wilhelm
Date:1798-01-01
Map
Da Ming yi tong shan he tu.
大明一统山河图 | Tae Myong iltʻong sanha to | The great Ming Dynasty's atlas of mountains and seas
Probably drawn by Wonhaksaeng. Covers Ming Dynasty, Korea, and Manchuria. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Warner purchase, 1927, no. 6. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call no.: G2305.W6 1721