February 22, 2013
Eijlant Formosa Generael - Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem on BibliOdyssey  “The contours of Formosa [Taiwan] and the Piscadores islands (in the south) on this map are identical to those in the Vingboons Atlas [this]”

Eijlant Formosa Generael

- Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem on BibliOdyssey 

“The contours of Formosa [Taiwan] and the Piscadores islands (in the south) on this map are identical to those in the Vingboons Atlas [this]”

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FILED UNDER: maps map historical maps island BibliOdyssey drawing 17th Century 1600 joan Blaeu dutch east india company VOC Holland Geography Atlas 
February 22, 2013
Bay of Tanger (Bay of Tangier*, Morocco) From ‘Joan Blaeu’s original ‘Atlas Maior’ (Great Atlas) [which] from the 1660s was substantially expanded into something of a personal world geo-encyclopaedia in the following decade by the Amsterdam lawyer, Laurens van der Hem, while continuing a visual style established by Blaeu. The gargantuan ~50 volume series — housed today in the Austrian National Library in Vienna — includes more than 2400 maps, charts, sketches and birds-eye-views of towns, buildings and harbours, seascapes and landscapes’ - Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem on BibliOdyssey 

Bay of Tanger (Bay of Tangier*, Morocco)

From ‘Joan Blaeu’s original ‘Atlas Maior’ (Great Atlas) [which] from the 1660s was substantially expanded into something of a personal world geo-encyclopaedia in the following decade by the Amsterdam lawyer, Laurens van der Hem, while continuing a visual style established by Blaeu. The gargantuan ~50 volume series — housed today in the Austrian National Library in Vienna — includes more than 2400 maps, charts, sketches and birds-eye-views of towns, buildings and harbours, seascapes and landscapes’ - Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem on BibliOdyssey 

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FILED UNDER: map diagram port historical maps history atlas sea 16th Century drawing BibliOdyssey geography Holland dutch east india company VOC joan Blaeu 
November 15, 2011
Figura Phasium et Lunationum  selenography (moon mapping) from: Astronomical Handbook of 1718

Figura Phasium et Lunationum 

selenography (moon mapping)

from: Astronomical Handbook of 1718

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FILED UNDER: 18th Century Astronomy German beautiful chart diagram line work lunar map moon paper selenography moon mapping craters 
November 14, 2011
Eclipse Tracking: selenography (moon mapping) from: Astronomical Handbook of 1718

Eclipse Tracking: selenography (moon mapping)

from: Astronomical Handbook of 1718

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FILED UNDER: 18th century Astronomy BibliOdyssey Germany Johann Leonhard Rost chart circle diagram drawing history line work lunar map paper path selenography moon mapping 
November 10, 2011
Forme de la Cour Imperiale de Peking See: BibliOdyssey: Peking Embassy

Forme de la Cour Imperiale de Peking

See: BibliOdyssey: Peking Embassy

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FILED UNDER: BibliOdyssey Peking drawing map China Embassy 17th Century Asia history chart Cultural landscapes ethnography 
October 19, 2011
detail from Western Europe and northwestern Africa  from The Vallard Atlas 1547

detail from Western Europe and northwestern Africa  from The Vallard Atlas 1547

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FILED UNDER: Bibliodyssey chart map drawing sea coastline beautiful linework history 16th Century The Vallard Atlas detail dieppe school portolan charts atlas 
October 19, 2011
The Aegean Sea from The Vallard Atlas 1547 For more background information, see: bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/10/vallard-atlas.html (5000px wide original here)

The Aegean Sea from The Vallard Atlas 1547

For more background information, see: bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/10/vallard-atlas.html

(5000px wide original here)

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July 22, 2011
Walther Litzelmann, Artilleriebuch 1582 BSB k

Walther Litzelmann, Artilleriebuch 1582 BSB k

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FILED UNDER: BibliOdyssey canons fire warfare diagram map drawing combat weaponry 16th century explosives and fireworks diagrammatic diagrams maps 
July 20, 2011
Walther Litzelmann, Artilleriebuch 1582 BSB l

Walther Litzelmann, Artilleriebuch 1582 BSB l

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FILED UNDER: diagram BibliOdyssey 16th century explosives and fireworks map fire combat weaponry warfare explosives diagrammatic diagrams maps 
July 15, 2011
Collection: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Author: King, Clarence Date: 1876 Short Title: Composite: Geological maps I-V, 40th Parallel Survey.

Collection: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

Author: King, Clarence

Date: 1876

Short Title: Composite: Geological maps I-V, 40th Parallel Survey.

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FILED UNDER: King, Clarence Date: 1876 Short Title: Composite: Geological maps I-V, 40th Parallel Survey. Pub Note: Magnificent, huge atlas showing the area of the 40th Parallel Survey in topographical and geological maps. Wheat notes: These are pioneer survey maps, and as such are most interesting. Mapping the West in so broad a cross-section had never before been attempted, a portent of things to come. King, at the age of 25, was made Geologist-in-charge of the Survey in 1867. He was formally ordered to examine and describe the geological structure, geographical condition and natural resources of a belt of country extending from the 120th meridian eastward to the 105th meridian, along the 40th parallel of latitude with sufficient expansion north and south to include the lines of 'Central' and 'Union Pacific' railroads... (Wheat). The topographical sheets depict features by brush shading rather than hachuring. In original binding -rare. Bound in green half leather with a label on the front, Geological and Topographical Atlas Accompanying the Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. Clarence King, Geologist in Charge. map charts colour palette David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Composite Map diagrammatic diagrams maps