M-249: World Maps Collection Series 1 Finding Aid

Series 1: World

Series 1: World

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Eastern Hemisphere

National Geographic Society New York, 16.75” x 18”

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Atlantic Ocean

31.5” x 25”

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Chart of the World

Chart of the World showing Distances Saved by the Interoceanic Canal of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, 33” x 21.25.” 3 copies

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Mail Routes of England, France, and the United States

Mail routes to principle markets of the world for manufactures goods, viz: Central and South America, East and West Indies, China and Japan and amounts paid for such mail service by each government, 9.25” x 14.75”

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Typus Orbis Universalis

German map of the world

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North Sea and Lands

Published by George Edwin Emery, 10.5” x 9.5”

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North Pole

Region around the North Pole giving the records of the most important explorations, 15” x 10.5.” Insets: Franz Josef Land, Smith Sound and Spitzbergen

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Map of the World on Polyconic development of the Sphere

11.5” x 8.5.” Two copies. From Coast Guard Survey, 1856 No. 65

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Mappemonde Historique

Notice historique et chronologique des principaux navigateurs, des differentes direction qu’ills ont prises, des principaux points qu’ills ont decouverts etc., 23.5” x 13.” Last noted reference on map

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Submarine Cable Connections in Special Localities

25.5” x 44”

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Western Hemisphere

National Geographic Society New York, 16.75” x 18”

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Atlantic Ocean

31.5” x 25”

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North Atlantic

From Universalior Cogniti Orbis Tabula

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Dymaxion World

10.5” x 12.” Four pages of text and four pages of map segments to be cut from Life Magazine, March 1, 1943

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Mission World

World Unity in the light of a century of missions (indicating principal mission stations). 15” x 7.5.” Map adapted with the permission of Funk & Wagnalls Co. NY

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Chart of the World on Mercators

Projection constructed by H. Berghaus. Published in Gotha by Justus Perthes. Not dated but evidence seems to indicate 1876-1889. Probably from Perthes, J. Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes’ Geographischer Anstalt… 1865-8. 64” x 36” divided into eight parts

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Les Cinq Partie du Monde

Planisphere Comprenant toules les Possessions Coloniales Chemins de Fer, Lignes de Navigation Principales lignes Telegraphiques Cables, 39” x 50”

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Theater of War in the Pacific Ocean

26.5” x 21”

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Northern Hemisphere

20” x 20”

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World

A reduction of the map dated 1544 and attributed to Sebastian Cabot, 13.5” x 10”

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It’s a Dog’s Day

24” x 36”

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Clements Library Map Portfolio

Contains 5 maps, all facsimiles.

1.      Untitled World Map, After Claudius Ptolemy, Ulm 1486, 23” x 13”

2.      Untitled World Map, Bernardus Sylvanus, Venice 1511, 23” x 13”

3.      Tabula Terre Novae, Martin Waldseemuller, Strassburg 1513, 23” x 13”

4.      Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula, Sebastian Munster, Basel, 1545, 15” x 12”

5.      America, Jodocus Hondius

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Eastern Hemisphere

7 copies, 13.5” x 13.5”

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Western Hemisphere

4 copies, 13.5” x 13.5”