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This world map is simple for a reason: it is made to teach geography, part of a series in Jean Palairet’s Atlas méthodique, composé pour l'usage de son altesse sérénissime Monseigneur le Prince d'Orange et de Nassau (1755).

Learn more here: https://t.co/QeEnGRWwim

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This is a hand-drawn world map, based on Samuel Dunn's ca. 1781 work, and was likely made as part of a geography lesson.

Learn more here: https://t.co/LNhlX6R7dZ

#maps #mapsbyhand

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For some Friday fun, here is a fascinating booklet (1967) detailing the plans for Mission IV of the Lunar orbiter program, which sought to provide the most complete imaging of the moon to date.

Learn more here: https://t.co/iK5lJRQfRZ

#maps #moon #moonmaps

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This is a rare, large sea chart of South East Asia by Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette, with engraving by the master engraver Guillaume Dheulland.

Zoom in here: https://t.co/WLw71HhZ9P

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California wine, anyone? This is a promotional map made by Amado Gonzales on behalf of the Wine Advisory Board.

Zoom in on your favorite wine region here: https://t.co/paYOigLxj9

#maps #California #Californiawine

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How to map Africa was an issue of enduring interest for European mapmakers. This is Peter van der Aa's attempt from 1713.

See more details here: https://t.co/efqcWx10XO

#Africa #maps

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Florida as you've never seen it before! This is a Depot de la Marine chart of the Caribbean from ca. 1773.

Learn more here: https://t.co/28KU6jAcSL

#maps #Caribbean #Florida

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Venice always looks good, and this Munster view of the city (ca. 1550) is no exception!

Zoom in on each building here: https://t.co/YTSydeLrKT

#maps #Venice

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Something fun for your Friday! This is a globe pencil sharpener from Japan (ca. 1935).

See it in action here: https://t.co/OmIePBeter

#maps #globe #wholeworldinyourhand

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This John Speed map of Canaan (ca. 1611) was intended for use in the King James' Bible.

Learn more here: https://t.co/JqW2zuvyTl

#maps #biblemaps

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Let's go team! This map shows major college teams in 1940.

Find your home team here: https://t.co/CGyP8uIGHQ

#maps #football

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This is Giovanni Paolo Maggio's extremely rare map addressing the flood control problems faced by Rome and its environs (1608).

Find out more about flood prevention, and maps, here: https://t.co/oeuahrNnhL

#maps #floods #Rome

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You can map all sorts of things. This map shows the ducks, eiders, and mergansers of North America (1937).

Find the locale of your favorite feathered friend here: https://t.co/NQsJWTb6XX

#maps #ducks #birdsofafeather

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This Hondius map of Bahia de los Todos Santos, Brazil depicts the taking of Salvador by the Dutch in 1624.

Learn more here: https://t.co/vzwOl4ZLTU

#maps #Brazil

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For Sunday, flip through the pages of Samuel August Mitchell's New Universal Atlas (1855).

Click here to access the contents: https://t.co/F2BYjVbolJ

#maps #atlas

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Enjoy the first printed map of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, executed by Increase Lapham and Byron Kilbourn in 1835-36, and engraved by W. Haviland in Cincinnati in 1836.

Learn more here: https://t.co/Jq8DUj298J

#maps #Milwaukee

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Here's an atlas for your weekend, Bowen's massive Complete Geography (1747), to be exact.

Flip through a few pages here: https://t.co/wOOfQJwZNk

#maps #atlas

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Hutchins' map (1778) of the area between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River was hugely important for American expansion westward.

Find out how here: https://t.co/28EpVO5bJl

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Oh hey, it's Poland. This is Jansson's map of Poland and parts of Lithuania, Pomerania and Prussia (ca. 1638).

Learn more here: https://t.co/VF7HJj5NF5

#maps #Poland

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Take to the skies with this poster from the1914 silent film Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane.

Learn more here: https://t.co/zemnwmY4AC

#morethanmaps #airplanehistory #filmhistory