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Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Unbound sheets]

Description: A complete set of unbound sheets of the last printing of the Pickering Horace. The Horace was originally printed by Pickering in 1820 as the first of his Diamond Classics, and are a landmark in the world of miniature books and printing. This set of sheets are a remarkable survival, giving insight into the printing and binding process. The sheets are quarter-sheet impressions, each sheet holding 8 front-and-back leaves (16 pages) of the text. The sheets have been folded into gathers, and lef… more
Date: 1826
Creator: Horace
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Map of Europe as queen]

Description: Map shows a stylized Europe in the form of a woman. [Spain] is her head and [Gaul], [Germany], [Denmark], [Poland], [Hungary], [Greece], [Bulgaria], [Macedonia], and Scythia are the remainder of her body. Europe is shown surrounded by Africa, [England], [Scotland], [Scandinavia], and Asia. Includes text in lower margin. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1550..1570]
Creator: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Tartaria.

Description: Map shows Asia from Russia, Persia, and the Caspian Sea to the west and China, Korea, Japan, the "Mongul. Tendvc," and the "Mare Glaciale" to the east; shows pictorial Great Wall of China. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1602
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Magni Mogolis Imperivm

Description: Map shows "Indostan" [central and upper India] and Bengal, and adjacent areas of Persia, the Tartan empire, and China. Includes illustrations of ships and elephants. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:7,000,000].
Date: [1662..1665]
Creator: Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

Description: Map shows North America and South America as understood during the late sixteenth century. Political boundaries are indicated by coloration in different regions of each continent. Relief shown pictorially. No scale indicated.
Date: 1570
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

America.

Description: Map shows settlements in North and South America. Includes text describing the New World. Descriptors on map in Italian and Latin. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1620?
Creator: Magini, Giovanni Antonio, 1555-1617
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Idea naturalis Americae Borealis digito dei formata geographice proposita an MDCC.

Description: Map shows southern and eastern portions of North America, Central America, the northeast coast of South America, the Caribbean islands, and California (depicted as an island). Includes illustrations of animals, birds, plants, and sea creatures in subtitle cartouche and dispersed across map; global hemisphere atop title. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1700
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Novissima et accuratissima septentrionalis ac meridionalis Americae : descriptio, multis locis regentibus aucta et correctâe divisa in onnes partes hodiernas.

Description: Map shows settlements, ports, political divisions for North and South America; extent of North America to eastern and southern portions; California as an island; islands in the Pacific to New Guinea, east across Atlantic to the coast of Africa. Includes decorative title cartouche showing natives and snakes, decorative cartouche showing the victory of the Cross over the Devil surrounds text on America; image of village and battling tribes in "Brasilia," fauna in North America. Relief shown picto… more
Date: [1680..1688]
Creator: Wit, Frederik de
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis novissima repræsentatio : quam ex singulis recentium Geographorum Tabulis collectā

Description: Map shows settlements, physical features, political divisions in North and South America and the West Indies; a portion of the coasts of Europe and Africa; islands in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and settlements. Includes notes, dates of discovery, and illustrations. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1712
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Pervviae avriferae regionis typus.

Description: Map shows portion of Central America, northwestern South America, southern United States, and coast of Tamaulipas in Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Scales differ.
Date: 1584
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Typus orbis terrarum, ad imitationem universalis Gerhardi Mercatoris : cuius secundum tam veterum quàm recentiorum supputationem 5400 miliaria Germanica ambitus complectitur..

Description: Map shows geography and place names of the eastern and western hemispheres as known during the late sixteenth century. Includes notes, Cicero quotation, and portrait of Jesus. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1596..1624]
Creator: Quad, Matthias, 1557-1613
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula.

Description: Map shows major cities and physical features for Europe, Asia, and Africa, with vague depiction beyond New Guinea for the Eastern Hemisphere; major settlements for South America, Central America, New Spain, and the eastern and southern portions of North America, and a vague depiction of the Pacific Coast, with California as an island, for the Western Hemisphere. Insets: "Julius Cæsar," "Claudius Ptolomeus Ale.," "Iudocus Hondius Flander," and "Gerardus Mercator Flander." Scale not given.
Date: 1641
Creator: Hondius, Hendrik, b. 1573
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

Description: Map settlements and missions in political divisions of New Spain and New France on the North American continent and for Brazil, Chili, and Peru; remaining land areas with coastal settlements only; areas of Native American habitation; New Guinea at the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. Political boundaries are indicated by coloration in different regions of each continent. Includes notes and number key; handwritten notations. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:45,000,000].
Date: 1587
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Secunda etas mundi.

Description: Map shows the pre-Columbus world, based on Ptolemy's Geographia. Jerusalem is at the center of the map; the Indian Ocean is an enclosed area; and Scandinavia, southern Africa and the Far East are not shown. Twelve winds, depicted as heads surrounding the map, are named as well as major places. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1493
Creator: Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Tierra nueva.

Description: Map shows eastern coast of North America from Labrador to Florida and islands east of "La Bremuda" [Bermuda]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not indicated.
Date: 1561
Creator: Sanuto, Livio, 1520-1576
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Manuscript leaf of music.

Description: Vellum / parchment leaf with writing on both sides. The text is in Latin, in black, with occasional red letters. It includes sections of musical notation (5-line staff notation, square dots used for the notes). Recto with 12 full lines of text, 3 partial lines of text and one partial line of music, and one line of music. Verso with two lines of music, one partial line of music (out to side on left), and 12 lines of text.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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