Includes notes in Italian on exploration and discovery in the northern hemisphere. Relief shown pictorially. "G. Zuliani, inc., G. Pitteri, scr." Annotated with the number 9.
Published in Venezia by Presso Antonio Zatta in 1779. ...
A slightly enlarged version of Gastaldi's 1548 Ptolemy; in 1561 a new translation of Ptolemy by Ruscelli was published in Venice by Valgrisi, and the same map plates were used for Latin editions in 1562 and 1564. Relief shown pictorially. Text on...
Naval chart, which is a slightly enlarged version of Gastaldi's Ptolemy published in 1548. In 1561 a new translation of Ptolemy by Ruscelli was published in Venice by Valgrisi, and Latin editions in 1562 and 1564 used the same map plates. This copy...
Relief shown pictorially. Illustrated. Includes text. "Descritte dal P.M. Coronelli." From Coronelli's Atlante veneto. In Italian. Published in Venetia by Appresso Domenico Padouani in [1696?]. Scale is [ca. 1:12,100,000].
Shows tracks of Cook's three voyages. Includes table labeled "Valore des Gradi del Meridiano e di quelli des Parelleli…" Relief shown pictorially. "Tom. I No. 5". Illustrated with fanciful creatures and vines. Hand colored outlines. Published in...
Shows tracks of Cook's three voyages. 1 map : outline col. ; 28 cm. diam., on sheet 45 x 60 cm. Includes table labeled "Valore des Gradi del Meridiano e di quelli des Parelleli…" Relief shown pictorially. "Tom. I No. 6". Illustrated with fanciful...
Title from caption. On May 11, 1926, the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, accompanied by the American Lincoln Ellsworth, the Italian Umberto Nobile (who had constructed the vessel and flew it), the pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, who...
30 second excerpt shows the roadhouse built, owned and operated by Italian immigrant Maurice Morino (1870-1937) at McKinley Park (later called Denali National Park and Preserve); the backside of the entrance sign to McKinley Park; the McKinley Park...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
The Alaska ferry, Wickersham, was purchased by the State of Alaska from the Swedish Stena Line for $6,960,000.00 in April, 1968, having only been built and in service for 6 months. Originally named M.V. Stena Brittanica, the ferry left Gothenberg,...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...