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Niagara Falls

Date: 1698
Description: An illustration of two men looking out at Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls in Jean Louis Hennepin’s A new discovery of a vast country in America (London: M...
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Aethiopia Superior vel Interior; vulgo Abissinorum five Presbiteriioannis Imperium

Date: 1696
Description: Engraved and hand-colored map of Ethiopia, from Blaeu's General Atlas. Map title is framed by a man and a woman, both wearing head turbans, who are standin...
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Atlantis Insula à Nicolao Sanson Antiquitati Restituta: Nunc Demum Majori Formâ Delineata, et in Decem Regna, Iuxtá Decem Neptuni Filios Distributa

Date: 1690
Description: A mysterious mixture of mythology, ancient geography, and late 17th century knowledge of the American coastline. This map shows North and South America, bu...

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