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LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1666 Latin

This highly decorative map of the Middle East is by the Dutch engraver, publisher, and map seller Frederick de Wit (1629 or 1630-1706). It was published in Amsterdam in about …


LC: Library of Congress · 1657 French

First edition published 1653. "Dedié à l'Eminentissime Cardinal Capponi." Signatures: [a]² e⁴ A-4B⁴. Includes one engraved portrait plate and one woodcut portrait plate; all other ill. are woodcuts. Page 163 …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1654 English

Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates given from an unidentified prime meridian. Appears in his Cartes generales de toutes les parties du monde, 1658. Available also through the Library of Congress Web …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1654 English

Shows India south of the tropic of Cancer and Southeast Asia, including Indochina, Sumatra, and western Borneo. Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates given from an unidentified prime meridian. Appears in his …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1653 Arabic

The full name of the author of Taqwīm al-adwiyah (Tabulation of drugs) is given in a work by Ismaʻil Basha al-Babani (died 1920), Īḍāḥ al-maknūn (Clarification of the hidden), as …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1653 English

In Chinese, with Japanese reading marks. Caption title. Within single border, except outside open (22.7 cm.), text in 10 vertical lines. On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji). LC set wormed, …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1650 Portuguese

Relief shown pictorially only on map of Ceylon as a whole. Date annotated in pencil on title page. Pen-and-ink over pencil. Watercolor also on maps of Colombo, Negombo, and Ceylon …


LC: Library of Congress · 1650 Persian

Contains a biography of Shāhjahān from his birth through the first 10 years of his reign by Qazvīnī. This work is followed by the second and third parts of Muḥammad …


LC: Library of Congress · 1650 Persian

Calligrapher's sample book.


LC: Library of Congress · 1643 Persian

Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in India. Paper; dark cream-color unpolished, coarse laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; severely worm damaged; no …