A Full and Impartial Account of the Company of Mississippi, Otherwise called the French East-India Company. …
A Full and Impartial Account of the Company of Mississipi, otherwise call'd the French East-India Company. Projected and settled by Mr. Law
John Law was a Scottish financier and adventurer who was also an authority on banking and the circulation of money. He convinced the regent of France, Philippe d'Orléans, that he could liquidate…
Book of Theology.
Shem'un al-Turani was born in 1670 near Tur Abdin in present-day Turkey. He studied in Tur Abdin and became a monk at the age of twenty. He was appointed maphrian-historically the prelate…
Primitive Map of the Upper Paraguay River and Its Tributaries Cuiaba, Porrudos and São Lourenco.
Mapa rudimentar do alto Paraguai com seus afluentes entre os quais o Cuiabá e o Porrudos, atual São Lourenço
This hand-drawn map from around 1720 shows the Upper Paraguay River and its tributaries, the Cuiaba, Porrudos, and São Lourenco rivers. The basin of the Upper Paraguay River is located in the…
Map of Ancient Arabia.
Arabiae Veteris Typus
This map of the Arabian Peninsula, published in 1720, shows Arabia Felix, Arabia Deserta, and Arabia Petraea. Other regions included are Palestine, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, Persia, Aegyptus, and Aethiopia. A large number of…
Map of Mexico City.
Plano de la ciudad de México
Dated 1720, this map was produced by the government of Mexico City in order to improve urban sanitation through the collection of garbage. It shows the central part of the city in…
Map of the Whole of Guiana or the Savage Coast, and the Spanish West Indies at …
Kart van geheel Guajana of de Wilden-Kust
This 18th-century Dutch map, produced in Amsterdam by the publisher Isaak Tirion (circa 1705--circa 1769), shows the northern coast of South American and its offshore islands, including Curaçao, Bonaire, and neighboring islands;…
Map of Louisiana, View of New Orleans.
Carte de la Louisiane, vue de la Nouvelle-Orléans
The French royal engineer, de Beauvilliers, drew this 1720 map of the entire hydrographic network of the Mississippi River, from the Illinois Country to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, and…
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Beauvilliers, De, 1730 - Bénard De La Harpe, Jean-Baptiste
MapLa Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos, Apostolicos de la Compa. e Jesus … Relief shown pictorially. McLaughlin, G. Mapping of California as an island, 196 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault 2 copies; copy 2 is b&w
Book/Printed MaterialA Full and Impartial Account of the Company of Mississippi, Otherwise called the French East-India Company. …
Book/Printed MaterialBook of Theology. Shem'un al-Turani was born in 1670 near Tur Abdin in present-day Turkey. He studied in Tur Abdin and became a monk at the age of twenty. He was appointed maphrian-historically the prelate…
MapPrimitive Map of the Upper Paraguay River and Its Tributaries Cuiaba, Porrudos and São Lourenco.
MapMap of Ancient Arabia.
MapMap of Mexico City.
MapMap of the Whole of Guiana or the Savage Coast, and the Spanish West Indies at …
MapMap of Louisiana, View of New Orleans.