Osher Atlas Collection

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American Atlas
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Date Produced: 1753 - 1775
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Dimensions: 53 cm. x 116 cm.
Physical Description: Thomas Jefferys died in 1771. His successors Robert Sayer and John Bennett gathered a compilation of separately-published maps and republished them in book form as the American Atlas in 1775. Among the maps are a map of Russian discoveries, map of the British empire in North America, Jefferys's Bay of Honduras, a chart of the Straits of Magellan by Don Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla and charts of North and South America.
LC Call Number: G1100 .J4 1775
OCLC: 927113830
Accession Number: OS-1775-24
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American Atlas

Carte de la France
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Date Produced: 1789
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Dimensions: 65 cm. x 53 cm.
Physical Description: Three volume set of the Carte de la France includes in volume one the 1744 outline map by Jean Dominique Maraldi and Cassini de Thury. The Carte was completed in 1789. It was the first general topographic map of the whole country based on triangulation and topographic surveys. Cesar -Francois Cassini I began the project but he died in 1784. It fell to his son Jean Dominique Cassini IV to complete the survey/triangulation until ownership and control was assumed by the revolutionary government in 1793.
LC Call Number: G5831 .B3 1789 .M3
OCLC: 930610800
Accession Number: OS-1789-2.1
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Carte de la France

Atlas of the War Maps, Plans, Diagrams and Pictures illustrating the Great European War
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Date Produced: 1914
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Dimensions: H 25 cm
Physical Description: 1 atlas: 88 pages, including frontispiece, illustrations (including maps, plans), diagrams
LC Call Number: D522.3 .N4
OCLC: 20930067
Accession Number: OS-1914-14
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Atlas of the War Maps, Plans, Diagrams and Pictures illustrating the Great European War

Pomponii Melae De orbis situ libri tres, accuratissime Emendati : Una Cvm Commentariis Ioachimi Vadiani Helvetii Castigatioribus, & multis in locis auctioibus factis : id quod candidus lector obiter, & in trans cursu facile deprehendet. Adiecta Svnt Praet
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Date Produced: 1540
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Dimensions: Height: 32
Physical Description: 1 atlas: 196 [58] pages, 1 folded map
LC Call Number: PA6512.M3 1540
OCLC: 717567385
Accession Number: OS-1540-1
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Pomponii Melae De orbis situ libri tres, accuratissime Emendati : Una Cvm Commentariis Ioachimi Vadiani Helvetii Castigatioribus, & multis in locis auctioibus factis : id quod candidus lector obiter, & in trans cursu facile deprehendet. Adiecta Svnt Praet

Atlas o maps fetxetres.
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Date Produced: 1675
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Dimensions: Height: 50
Physical Description: Composite atlas of navigational charts and maps. Includes second state of Totius Neobelgii Nova et Accuratissima Tabula. Also includes Leo Belgicus representing the Low Countries in the form of a lion.
LC Call Number: G1025 .A4 1675
OCLC: 927113537
Accession Number: OS-1675-1
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Atlas o maps fetxetres.