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Aftermath of the Encounter
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Competition for Empire
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The United States: An Emerging Empire
Andrew Jackson, Governor of the Florida Territory
Letter from Andrew Jackson to Georgia Governor John Clark, April 9, 1821. Holograph manuscript. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, (171.00.00)
The Adams-Onís Treaty
Adams-Onís Treaty. Letter from U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams to Alexander H. Everett, U.S. Chargé d’Affaires at the Hague August 23, 1819. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (170.00.01)
Aftermath of the Encounter
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Competition for Empire
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Sir Frances Drake’s Voyage Maps
Route of Drake's Voyage
Baptista Boazio. Map and views created to illustrate Bigges’ and Croftes’ Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drake’s West Indian voyage . . . With geographicall mappes exactly describing each of the towne . . . made by Baptista Boazio. London: Richard Field, 1589. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division (114.00.00)
Aftermath of the Encounter
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Documenting New Knowledge
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Mapping the World
Maya Portrayal of the Cosmos
Carved bowl with swirl patterns. Guatemalan Lowlands. AD 200–500. Burnished black-brown ceramic. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (136.00.00)
Photo ©Justin Kerr, Kerr Associates
T–O Map of the World
Isidore, Bishop of Seville. Etymologiae (Etymologies). Augsburg: Guntherus Ziner, 1472. Vollbehr Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division (138.00.00)
Paolo Forlani’s 1560 World Map
Paolo Forlani (fl. mid-sixteenth century). Untitled world map in Antoine Lafrery’s (1512–1577) Geografia tavole moderne di geographia (Modern geography of the greater part of the world). Rome: Antoine Lafrery, 1575? Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (149.01.00)
Picturing the Universe
Bartholomaeus Anglicus. Le proprietaire des choses (The Properties of Things). Lyon: Johannes Siber, 1486. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (139.01.01)
1482 Ulm Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy. Geographia. Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 1482. Hain Collection, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (140.02.00)
Cosmographiae Introductio
Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann. Cosmographiae Introductio. St.-Dié: 1507. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (141.01.00)
1507 World Map
Claudius Ptolemy. In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss (Continuations of the Geographiae of Cl. Ptolemaeus by many learned men in their own languages). Rome: Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus, 1507. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (145.02.00)
1512 Stobnicy Map
Jan ze Stobnicy. Introductio in Ptolomei comosgraphia[m] cu[m] longitudinibus et latitudinibus et cuvitatum celebrioriu (Introduction to the cosmography of Ptolemy. . . .). Krakow: Florian Ungleri, 1512. Facsimile. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (146.01.00)
Enhanced View of the World
Julius C. Solinus. CIoannis Camertis Minoritani, artium, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, in C. Iulii Solini Polyistor ra enarrationes. Vienna: Johann Singrenium, 1520. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (147.00.00)
The Sixteenth-Century World
Nouus orbis regionum ac insularum. . . . (News of the regions and islands of the world. . . .). Basel: Johannes Heruagium, 1532. Johann Huttich, comp., with preface by Simon Grynäus. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (148.02.00)
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Nicolaus Copernicus. De Revolutionibus orbium caelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres). Nuremberg: Johannes Petrus, 1543. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (149.00.02)
Antoine Floriano’s World Map in Globe Gores
Antonio Floriano (fl. mid-sixteenth century). Untitled globe gores in Antoine Lafrery (1512–1577), Geografia tavole moderne di geographia. Rome: Antoine Lafrery, 1575? Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (148.03.00)
Earth-Centered Universe
Johannes de Sacro Bosco (ca. 1195–1256). Sphaera mundi (The sphere of the world). Venice: 1490. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (140.03.00)
Italian Adventurer Ludovico de Varthema
Ludovico de Varthema (ca. 1470–1517). Itinerario de Ludouico de Varthema . . . (Travels of Ludovico de Varthema). Venice: Zorzi di Rusconi, 1517. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (146.02.00)
Korean World Map
Ch’onhado (World Map) from Chonha Chido (Map of the World). Hand-copied manuscript map. Korea: mid-eighteenth century, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (139.02.00)
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