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    Book/Printed Material
    Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : This work by William Watts (active 1737-58) is an account of the Battle of Plassey, which took place on June 23, 1757, near the village of Pâlāshir, some 150 kilometers north of…
    • Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Campbell, John - Watts, William
    • Date: 1760

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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Tārīkh-i Nādirī
    تاريخ نادري     Manuscript is incomplete; text breaks off abruptly at second word of line 5, leaf 257a. Tārīkh-i Nādirī (The history of Nadir) is a historical work that chronicles the political and military career…
    • Contributor: Mahdī Khān Astarābādī - Munro, Thomas
    • Date: 1760

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  • Map
    The West-India pilot. Containing piloting directions for Port Royal Harbour in Jamaica, in and out through … "Captain Joseph Smith Speer was an English mariner who spent many years in Central America and the Caribbean. He created detailed maps and guides based on his personal experiences. In 1766, he…
    • Contributor: Speer, Joseph Smith
    • Date: 1766
    • Resource: Image - 40

  • Map
    A plan of the west line or parallel of latitude, which is the boundary between the … "This map shows the original Mason-Dixon Line, traditionally thought of as the divide between North and South in the United States and, before the Civil War, between the slaveholding and non-slaveholding states.…
    • Contributor: Mason, Charles - Kennedy, Robert - Smither, James - Dixon, Jeremiah
    • Date: 1768
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Carte des provinces de Nicaragua et Costa Rica Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. "Tome II. No. 9." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
    • Date: 1764-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    [Manuscript map of Dagua River region, Colombia]. "... diziembre 19 de 1764." Shows the vicinity of the present-day city of Buenaventura, Colombia when it was known as the estuary of the Rio Dagua where the town of Sombrerillo occupied…
    • Date: 1764-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Plan de Monaco. Scale ca. 1:6,000. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north toward the lower right. "Tome IV, no. 72." Covers commune of Monaco. From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. Available also through…
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
    • Date: 1764-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Verschiedene propspecte der vornemsten stadten in Persien Aerial views for 14 cities in Persia and Central Asia. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Homann, Johann Baptist
    • Date: 1762-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    Carte des royaumes de Siam, de Tunquin, Pegu, Ava Aracan, &c. Relief shown pictorially. In upper right margin: Tome III, no. 49. From his Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
    • Date: 1764-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Map
    The Attack of Manilla, October 1762. Scale ca. 1:2,100. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the left. Pictorial map. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 731 Includes index to points of interest and ships in the harbor. Available also…
    • Date: 1762-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
    شرح اللمع في علم الحسالب     The system of fara'iḍ (shares) for inheritances is considered to be one of the most advanced innovations introduced by Muslim conquerors in Middle Eastern and North African societies. The exact calculation of…
    • Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Khāsikī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1761
    • Resource: PDF - 44

  • Book/Printed Material
    Mian hua tu
    棉花圖 | Title on spine of case: Yu ti Mian hua tu | Yu ti Mian hua tu     Fang Guancheng created the paintings and poems in this book. The essays inside the book were created to correspond with the illustrations. The book praises the fine cotton that grew near the…
    • Contributor: Fang, Guancheng - Qianlong - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1766
    • Resource: Juan 1 - Image - 23

  • Book/Printed Material
    Mian hua tu.
    棉花圖 | Yu ti Mian hua tu     Fang Guancheng created the paintings and poems in this book. The essays inside the book were created to correspond with the illustrations. The book praises the fine cotton that grew near the…
    • Contributor: Fang, Guancheng - Qianlong - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1766
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Man Han Xi xiang ji : si juan
    滿漢西廂記 : 四卷 | Title on label on spine of case: Chao ben Man Han Xi xian ji | Man Han he bi Xi xiang ji | Chao ben Man Han Xi xian ji     This is a manuscript edition of the popular play Xi xiang ji (Romance of the west chamber) by Wang Shifu (circa 1250-1307), a Yuan dynasty playwright about whom little is known. Fourteen…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wang, Shifu
    • Date: 1765
  • Collection
    Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov.
    Собрание российских и сибирских городов.     Raboty vypolneny po risunkam uchastnikov Sibirskoĭ ėkspedit︠s︡ii I.-V. Li︠u︡rseniusa i I.-kh. Berkkhana, ispravlennym v nachale 1750-kh gg. I.-E. Grimmelem, a takzhe po zarisovkam podpolkovnika A.I. Svechina, sdelannym v 1764 g. i pererisovannym…

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid Udinskogo ostroga.
    Вид Удинского острога.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 1 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe: list 18. Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание…
    • Contributor: Bugreev, Ivan Evstafʹevich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Nerchinska.
    Вид города Нерчинска.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 2 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Chelnakov, Nikita Fedorovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Vladimira ot Moskvy s priezda k Severo-Zapadu.
    Вид города Владимира от Москвы с приезда к Северо-Западу.     List 3 iz al'boma "Sobranie rossiiskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Po risunku Makhaeva, Mikhaila Ivanovicha (1718 - 1770) i Svechina, Aleksandra Ivanovicha (? - 1796). List 3 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh…
    • Contributor: Kolpashnikov, Alekseĭ I︠a︡kovlevich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid Zilantova monastyri︠a︡ v blizosti Kazani.
    Вид Зилантова монастыря в близости Казани.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 4 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Balabin, Patrikeĭ Timofeevich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid Bronnit︠s︡koĭ gory, bliz Novagoroda.
    Вид Бронницкой горы, близ Новагорода.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 5 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Shukhin, Afanasii Mikhailovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid Ki︠a︡khtinskoĭ slobody.
    Вид Кяхтинской слободы.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 6 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Shukhin, Afanasii Mikhailovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Verkhoturʹi︠a︡.
    Вид города Верхотурья.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 7 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Artemʹev, Prokofiĭ Ivanovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Tary.
    Вид города Тары.     List 8 iz al'boma "Sobranie rossiiskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Po risunku Berkgana, Ioganna-Khristiana (1709 - 1751). List 8 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia…
    • Contributor: Artemʹev, Prokofiĭ Ivanovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Turinska.
    Вид города Туринска.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 9 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe: list 17. Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание…
    • Contributor: Balabin, Patrikeĭ Timofeevich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Sinbirska s priezda k Severo-Zapadu.
    Вид города Синбирска с приезда к Северо-Западу.     List 10 iz al'boma "Sobranie rossiiskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Po risunku Svechina, Aleksandra Ivanovicha (? - 1796) i Makhaeva, Mikhaila Ivanovicha (1718 - 1770). List 10 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh…
    • Contributor: Artemʹev, Prokofiĭ Ivanovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Ti︠u︡meni︠a︡.
    Вид города Тюменя.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 11 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe: list 24. Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание…
    • Contributor: Sablinʺ, N. (Nikolaĭ)
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Ekaterinburga.
    Вид города Екатеринбурга.     List 11 iz al'boma "Sobranie rossiiskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe: list 24. Po risunku Berkgana, Ioganna-Khristiana (1709 - 1751). List 11 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe: list…
    • Contributor: Sablinʺ, N. (Nikolaĭ)
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Penzy na Suru r. k severo-vostoku.
    Вид города Пензы на Суру р. к северо-востоку.     List 12 iz al'boma "Sobranie rossiiskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Po risunku Makhaeva, Mikhaila Ivanovicha (1718 - 1770), Svechina, Aleksandra Ivanovicha (? - 1796) i Usacheva, Vasilii︠a︡ Antonovicha (1740 - posle 1782). List…
    • Contributor: Balabin, Patrikeĭ Timofeevich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Irkut︠s︡ka.
    Вид города Иркуцка.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 13 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Rudakov, Aleksei Gavrilovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda I︠A︡kut︠s︡ka.
    Вид города Якуцка.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 13 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Rudakov, Aleksei Gavrilovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Selenginska.
    Вид города Селенгинска.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 14 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Chelnakov, Nikita Fedorovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Ilimska.
    Вид города Илимска.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 15 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Fedoseev, Emel'ian Alekseevich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Eniseĭska.
    Вид города Енисейска.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 15 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Fedoseev, Emel'ian Alekseevich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid Nevianskogo zavoda.
    Вид Невианского завода.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 16 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Chelnakov, Nikita Fedorovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Krasnoi︠a︡rska.
    Вид города Красноярска.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 16 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание российских и сибирских городов."…
    • Contributor: Kolpashnikov, Alekseĭ I︠a︡kovlevich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Turinska.
    Вид города Туринска.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 17 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe: list 9. Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание…
    • Contributor: Balabin, Patrikeĭ Timofeevich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid Udinskogo ostroga.
    Вид Удинского острога.     Po risunku Li︠u︡rseniusa, Ioganna-Vilʹgelʹma (1704 - 1771). List 18 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe: list 1. Original image at: National Library of Russia From the photo album "Собрание…
    • Contributor: Bugreev, Ivan Evstafʹevich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Tveri s priezda ot S.Peterburga, shchedrotami Ekateriny II vozobnovlennyĭ.
    Вид города Твери с приезда от С.Петербурга, щедротами Екатерины II возобновленный.     List 19 iz al'boma "Sobranie rossiiskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe: list 20. Po risunku Kazakova, Matvei︠a︡ Fedorovicha (1738 - 1812). List 19 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe:…
    • Contributor: Sablinʺ, N. (Nikolaĭ)
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid goroda Tveri s priezda ot S.Peterburga, shchedrotami Ekateriny II vozobnovlennyĭ.
    Вид города Твери с приезда от С.Петербурга, щедротами Екатерины II возобновленный.     List 20 iz al'boma "Sobranie rossiiskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe: list 19. Po risunku Kazakova, Matvei︠a︡ Fedorovicha (1738 - 1812). List 20 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". To zhe:…
    • Contributor: Sablinʺ, N. (Nikolaĭ)
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vid Kazani, vo vremi︠a︡ vodopolʹi︠a︡ reki Kazanki, k Severo-Zapadu predstavlennyĭ.
    Вид Казани, во время водополья реки Казанки, к Северо-Западу представленный.     List 21 iz al'boma "Sobranie rossiiskikh i sibirskikh gorodov". Po risunku Svechina, Aleksandra Ivanovicha (? - 1796) i Makhaeva, Mikhaila Ivanovicha (1717 - 1770). List 21 iz alʹboma "Sobranie rossiĭskikh i sibirskikh…
    • Contributor: Chelnakov, Nikita Fedorovich
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: Image