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Persia
Full text linkPublication: [London] : [printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet-street, and Ric. Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul\u27s Church-yard], [1676]
Physical Description: 1 map ; 9 x 12 cm on sheet 10 x 16 cm
More Author / Title Information: P. Kærius cælavit.
Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale shown as ratio to German Com Myll (i.e. German common mile), a measure which varied across different times and regions. The conversion to modern miles is undetermined. Approximately 1.7 cm represents 100 German common miles.
Notes: Engraved by Pieter Van Den Keere.
Leaf may have been separated from the 1676 edition of An epitome of Mr. John Speed\u27s theatre of the empire of Great Britain and of his Prospect of the most famous parts of the world, London : printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet-street, and Ric. Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul\u27s Church-yard, 1676.
Verso is printed with English-language text, page number 169, with the header Of Poland.
Relief shown pictorially.
University of Nebraska Omaha Notes: Map seller identified this as 1662 edition, but cataloger matched leaf to 1676 edition
Asia
Full text link[Amsterdam?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1630 and 1636?]
Physical Description: 1 map : color ; 26 x 19 cm
Notes: Hand-colored.
Relief shown pictorially.
Text in Latin.
Identified by cataloger as possibly being the miniature version of the map of Asia by Jodocus Hondius, engraved by Pieter Van Den Keere, as it appeared in Johannes Cloppenburg\u27s edition of Gerhard Mercator\u27s Atlas Minor, engraved in a slightly larger format than the standard Dutch pocket atlases of the time. This version of the map was first published in 1630 and appearing in editions until 1636, then not appearing in print again until 1673. The title of Asia appears in a small box in the upper right corner of the map. Cartographer, engraver, publisher, and date not identified on source and are inferred from comparison to similar maps in the catalogs of antique map dealers
Tabvla Asiae VII
Full text linkPublication: [Agrippinensium Colonia?] : [Excudebat Petrus Keschedt?], [1597?]
Physical Description: 1 map ; 14 x 18 cm, on sheet 17 x 23 cm
Language: Latin
Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale not given, (E 49°35ʹ--E 82°05ʹ/N 43°33ʹ--N 26°01ʹ).
Notes: Ptolemaic map covering central Asia, including the Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
Relief shown pictorially.
Uncolored.
Copper-plate map.
Verso is page 22 of an unidentified text in Latin, with heading: Asiae Tabvla VI.
Taken from an early edition of Giovanni Antonio Magini\u27s Ptolemy\u27s Geographia, tentatively identified as: Ptolemy. Geographiae vniuersae tum veteris, tum nouae abolutissimum opus, duobus voluminibus districtum. Agrippinensium Colonia : Excudebat Petrus Keschedt, 1597
Fostering Civic Responsibility
Full text linkThis issue features: Fostering Civic Responsibility Through Service Learning; Program Profiles; and CityWorks: A Curriculum Model for Teaching Local Government Through Research and Service Learning