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Hotan, 1654-1738
Nanzenbushu bankoku shoka no
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1710
Case Map
| Authors |
Hotan, 1654-1738 |
| Full Title |
Nanzenbushu bankoku shoka no zu. Rokashi. Hoei 7 (1710) |
| List No |
5763.001 |
| Note |
Wood block print. Hand colored. In Japanese. Shows the world based on Buddhist literature from India and China. This map is based on a Buddhist conceptual view of the world with India at the center, yet it includes contemporary European geographical knowledge -- Europe is shown as a group of islands in the upper left corner and South America is is an island in the ocean south of Japan on the right side. The map has many place names in Asia not found on European maps of the period. In the center of the map in the Himalayan Mountains is a quadruple helix symbolizing the origins of the four great rivers of the region (the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Sutlej rivers) emanating from the heads of a horse, a lion, an elephant, and an ox. This is the site of the present day Lake Manasarovar, the highest fresh water lake in the world. "A land bridge connects China to an unnamed continent in the upper right corner ..."--Cortazzi. Relief shown pictorially. Bibliography. Title in Nihon kohan chizu shusei: Nanzenbushu bankoku shoka no zu. Folded in cover 24x19. Has annotations in red ink. |
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Moll, Herman, d. 1732
India Proper or the Empire o
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1736
World Atlas
| Authors |
Moll, Herman, d. 1732 |
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India Proper or the Empire of the Mogul. Agreeable to modern history. By H. Moll Geographer. (Printed and sold by T. Bowles next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Church yard, & I. Bowles at ye Black Horse in Cornhill, 1736?) |
| List No |
5580.036 |
| Note |
Hand col. engraved map. Relief shown pictorially. Includes geographic notes. David Rumsey Collection copy includes marginal note concerning distances in pen-and-ink. |
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Colton, G.W.
Hindostan Or British India.
1856
World Atlas
| Authors |
Colton, G.W. |
| Full Title |
Hindostan Or British India. (with) Continuation Of British India. Published By J.H. Colton & Co. No. 172 William St. New York. Entered ... 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. ... New York. No. 30. |
| List No |
0149.097 |
| Note |
In full color. |
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Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1
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Religious belief.
1854
Physical Atlas
| Authors |
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871 |
| Full Title |
Moral & statistical chart showing the geographical distribution of man according to religious belief, with the principal Protestant mission stations in the middle of the 19th century. By A. Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E. Engraved & printed in colours by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. 1st May, 1854. (1856) |
| List No |
0372.035 |
| Note |
Col. lithographed map. Inset maps: Distribution of man in Europe according to language. Scale [ca. 1:17,000,000] -- Mission stations of India. Scale [ca. 1:20,500,000] -- Prevailing forms of religion in Europe. Scale [ca. 1:17,000,000] -- Mission stations of British Nth. America -- Missions stations of South Africa. Includes statistical charts of population by religion and school enrollment. "Phytology & zoology no. 11." |
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