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Atlas of Fayette County... Pennsylvania
This abridged Atlas CD contains high resolution digital images of vintage 1872 Fayette County, Pennsylvania maps that are presented in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). All 1872 Fayette County township maps are included on this CD, as are many city, village and borough plan maps from this period.
This excerpt example map of and the sample section of plat are representative of the content and map image quality found on this Atlas CD.
The townships included are: Brownsville, Bullskin, Connellsville, Dunbar, Franklin, Georges, German, Henry Clay, Jefferson, Luzerne, Menallen, Nicholson, North Union, South Union, Perry, Red Stone, Salt Lick, Spring Hill, Springfield, Stewart, Tyrone, Washington and Wharton.
City, village and borough maps included on this CD: Belle Vernon, Brownsville, Bridgeport, West Brownsville, Broadford, New Haven Borough, Perryopolis, Dawson’s Station, Falls City, Fayette City Borough, Masontown, New Geneva, New Salem, Pennsville, Smithfield, Springfield, Upper Middletown and Uniontown Borough.
Details on early maps are often difficult to read and these are no exception; however, by virtue of the Adobe PDF formatting, these documents may be inspected at high levels of magnification without additional digital distortion.
Each map may include many 19th century features such as:
roads, railroads and canals
post offices and government sites
schoolhouses, churches and cemeteries
rivers, streams and ferries
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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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