Collection Items

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    Book/Printed Material
    Taiyang Zhou Xiao Hou miao zhi : shang ji liu juan xia ji yi juan
    太洋洲蕭侯廟志 : 上集六卷, 下集一卷 / | Taiyang Xiao Hou miao zhi | Title on title page: Qie Taiyang Zhou Xiao Hou miao zhi | Qie Taiyang Zhou Xiao Hou miao zhi     Collection of documents about Xiao Hou, including Xiao hou miao tu, Xiao Hou zhuan (The biography of Xiaohou), orders and funeral oration from the Emperor, poems, and verse. Xiao Hou was regarded…
    • Contributor: Zhu, Shishou - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Guo, Zizhang
    • Date: 1622
  • Book/Printed Material
    Wensu Wang gong zou cao : er shi san juan
    文肅王公奏草 : 二十三卷 / | Wang Wensu zou cao     This collection of memorials written by Wang Xijue (1534-1610) was printed during the Wanli period (1573-1620). Wang, posthumously called Wang Wensu, became, in 1562, a successful candidate at the metropolitan civil examination,…
    • Contributor: He, Qiaoyuan - Shen, Shixing - Wang, Xijue - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Fang, Congzhe
    • Date: 1622
  • Book/Printed Material
    Da cheng li yue ji : 5 juan
    大成禮樂集 : 五卷 | Li yue ji     Based on the 14th century work Da cheng ya yue; reflects musical works of the Weinan Region. The compiler of this work was Shi Jishi, the editor his disciple, Shi Zuo. Shi…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Chen, Yingyuan - Nan, Qizhong - Shi, Zuo - Wang, Shao - Chen, Yao - LI, Weizhen - Xu, Gao
    • Date: 1622
  • Book/Printed Material
    Xing ming gui zhi : si juan
    性命圭旨 : 四卷 | Title on title page: Juan Yin Zhenren xing ming gui zhi quan shu | Juan Yin Zhenren xing ming gui zhi quan shu     Promoting the theories of daoism of master Yin Zhenren, by his disciples; the earlier copy of this work was preserved in the home of Tang Xin'an, and was later printed by Wu…
    • Contributor: Zou, Yuanbiao - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Yu, Yongning - Wu, Zhihe - Cheng, Yuting
    • Date: 1622
  • Map
    Arabia. This 1662 Latin map of Arabia is a copy of an earlier map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), the founder of the Blaeu cartographic firm. It is one of the first maps…
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1622-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Map of the Strait of Magellan Developed by the Schouten and Le Maire Expedition, 1616.
    Mapa del Estrecho de Magallanes elaborado por la expedición de Schouten y Le Maire, 1616     In June 1615, Dutch navigators Jacob Le Maire (circa 1585--1616) and Willem Corneliszoon Schouten (circa 1567--1625) set out in two ships, the Eendracht and the Hoorn, from the Dutch port of Texel,…
    • Contributor: Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon - Le Maire, Jacob - De Herrera Y Tordesillas, Antoine
    • Date: 1622-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    South Sea. Pacific Ocean.
    Mar Pacifico. By Hessel Gerritsz. Met Octroy van de E.H.M. Heeren de Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden . Duytsche mÿlen vÿftien voor een graedt     This map of the South Sea, or Pacific Ocean, was made in 1622 by the Dutch cartographer Hessel Gerritsz, who was the official cartographer to the Dutch East India Company and a…
    • Contributor: Gerritsz, Hessel
    • Date: 1622-01-01
    • Resource: Image