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Subject Terms World maps -- Early works to 1800.

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1. Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so much of the world as hath beene hetherto discouered and is comne to our knowledge ...

Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so much of the world as hath beene hetherto discouered and is comne to our knowledge ...
Creator:
Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615
Date:
[1599?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 43 x 62 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Vera descriptio expeditionis nauticae Francisci Draci Angli, cognitis aurati qui quinq[ue] navibus probe instructis, ex occidentali Anglia parte anchoras soluens, tertio post decimo Decembris An[n]o MDLXXVII, terraru[m] orbis ambitum circumnavigans, unica tantu[m] navi reliqua (alijs fluctibus, alijs flamma correptis) redux factus, sexto supra vigesimo Sep. 1580.

Vera descriptio expeditionis nauticae Francisci Draci Angli, cognitis aurati qui quinq[ue] navibus probe instructis, ex occidentali Anglia parte anchoras soluens, tertio post decimo Decembris An[n]o MDLXXVII, terraru[m] orbis ambitum circumnavigans, unica tantu[m] navi reliqua (alijs fluctibus, alijs flamma correptis) redux factus, sexto supra vigesimo Sep. 1580.
Date:
circa 1587
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 21.9 x 43 cm, on sheet 23.5 x 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. [Terrestrial globe]

[Terrestrial globe]
Date:
[ca. 1522]
Physical Description:
1 globe : paint and gesso over hollow wood sphere, brass (stand) ; 368 mm in diam.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula [cartographic material] / autore N.I. Piscator ; C.J. Visscher excudebat 1652.

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Creator:
Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587–1652
Date:
1652
Physical Description:
1 map ; 29 x 43 cm, on sheet 45 x 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

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Creator:
Clúny, Alexander
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Secunda etas mundi = Secunda etas mũdi / [Hartmann Schedel].

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Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440–1514
Date:
[12 July 1493]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 31 x 44 cm, on sheet 41 x 58 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A new and accurat map of the world : drawne according to ye truest descriptions, latest discoueries & best obseruations y[e]t have beene made by english or strangers.

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Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
1651 [1676 printing]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col. ; 2 hemipsheres each 25 cm. in diam., on sheet 45 x 57 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts