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1868 Atlas of the State of Ohio
The 1868 Atlas of the State of Ohio is an excellent snapshot of mid nineteenth century Ohio recommended for anyone undertaking research of this period. The Atlas data has been scanned at 400 dpi and is presented in high quality Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Examples of some of the Atlas pages can be viewed by following the links below.
includes: Counties, Cities, Agriculture, Canals, Climate Map, Climatology, Colleges, County Evolution, Land Grants of Ohio, Geological Map, Geology, History, Schools and Seminaries, Post Offices, Railways, Statistics and Surveys of Ohio.
Multiple adjacent are useful for identifying 1868 transportation routes, railroads, canals, streams and rivers, cities, towns and villages, and early Ohio place names.
The 25 in the Atlas are much more detailed with many early government and industrial sites including:
schools, churches and cemeteries
streets, roads and railways
rivers, streams and canals
race tracks and fair grounds
post offices and government sites
industrial sites, furnaces and mills
hospitals and asylums
and much, much more
The Adobe Acrobat Reader for MS Windows is needed to view, zoom, pan and print from the PDF map images contained in this atlas; and is included free on each CD. No other software is necessary. The map data has been created and configured using the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader (6.0) for MS Windows (98, 98SE, XP, NT and 2000). The maps may be viewed in ear ...
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EXTREMELY RARE MAP
OF THE IMPERIAL CITY OF JAPAN
KYOTO
PRINTED 1699 (or before)
BY
Yoshinaga Hayashi
VERY LARGE CITY PLAN PRINTED PRIOR TO THE GREAT FIRE OF 1788
Size (unfolded): about 160 x 120 cm (or about 63 x 47 inches), folds to 24 x 16 cm.
Details: Original hand-coloured woodblock, original blue wrappers with title in Japanese. Printed on native paper.
Condition: Overall very good condition with minor foxing, binding rubbed, other insignificant defects. Old handwritten annotation on the binding stating “Miaco” and crossing “Edo” (please see photos).
Fantastic map of Kyoto, Imperial capital of Japan and the Imperial Family’s residence until 1868. The city was ravaged and destroyed by a great fire in 1788.
This city plan of Kyoto (or Miaco) was printed by Yoshinaga Hayashi in 1699 (or some years before). The first known city plan of Kyoto dates from around 1674. It is particularly interesting for its great detail of the shrines, temples, palaces, principal roads, bridges, and others. It was also used as a guide for tourists or visitors to locate the 250 Shinto shrines and 1600 Buddhist temples.
Hayashi started publishing maps in the late 17th century, namely a map of Tokyo (Edo) in 1680. It continued printing maps until the middle of the 18th century.
Yoshinaga Hayashi was a leading map publisher. The publisher productions are regarded as the finest examples of Japanese cartography of the period. Early maps of Kyoto (prior to ...
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