Noua orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum
Nova orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum
Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Johannes Kepler's Tabvlae Rudolphinae. Ulm : Johannes Saur, 1627-30. Prime meridian based on the astronomer Tycho Brahe's observatory in Denmark. Map drawn in three parts (left to…
Contributor:
Kepler, Johannes - Eckebrecht, Philipp - Walch, J. P. (Johann Philipp)
Shi guo ren wen : shi er juan
仕國人文 : 十二卷
Lectures and essays on culture, politics, literature and eminent persons, written by scholars from Shanxi Province, dating from Tang Yu through the Ming Dynasty. The author of this work was Fan Hongsi,…
Contributor:
Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Xu, Tianfeng - Liu, Chengchong - Fang, Hongsi - Cheng, Shao - Zhu, Zhijun
Date:1630
Book/Printed Material
Freedoms, as Given by the Council of the Nineteen of the Chartered West India Company to …
Vryheden By de Vergaderinghe van de Negenthiene vande Geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie vergunt aen allen den ghenen die eenighe Colonien in Nieu-Nederlandt sullen planten
The Lords Nineteen, the governing body of the Dutch West India Company, established the patroon system as a way to encourage the settlement of New Netherland, the Dutch colony in North America…
Java and Australia.
Iava Maior e Nuca Antara [Java e Australia]
This manuscript map of Java and the tip of northern Australia is a copy of an earlier work by the Malaysian-Portuguese cartographer Emanuel Godinho de Eredia (1563-1623). In the 16th century, Portugal…
A Most Accurate Picture of Brazil.
Accuratissima Brasiliae tabula
This early map showing Bahia state in Brazil is the work of Henricus Hondius (died 1638), a member of a famous Dutch mapmaking family. His father, Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), acquired the plates…