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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
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Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
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Gibson, J. (John), active 1750–1792
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Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
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Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
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2023-2024
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Maps & Atlas (printed)
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17th century
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18th century
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16th century
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atlase
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engraving
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world atlase
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woodcut
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annotations (provenance)
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composite atlase
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early map
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hand coloring
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Atlases -- Early works to 1800.
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Geography -- Early works to 1800.
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Atlases, British -- Early works to 1800.
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Africa -- Atlases.
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America -- Maps, Early.
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American Antiquarian Society -- Stamp.
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Anglesey (Wales) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
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Atkyns, Edward -- Bookplate.
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Berney, Ann -- Bookplate.
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Early maps.
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Griffith, William -- Autograph.
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Hodgkin, John Eliot -- Bookplate.
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Thorne Collection of Cartogaphy and Geography -- Bookplate.
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Africa
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America
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Anglesey (Wales)
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England
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London
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Exhibition History
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006)
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Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
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Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
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Latin
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French
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German
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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura
anno 1632
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Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum, per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur
[approximately 1716?]
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Le grand atlas, ou, Cosmographie Blauiane
MDCLXVII [1667]
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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas
1637
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Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Mundus imperiorum, siue de mundi imperiis libri quatuor
im Iahr MDCII [1602]
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Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
Theatrum orbis terrarum
[1571]
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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas
1635
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Gibson, J. (John), active 1750–1792
Atlas minimus, or A new set of pocket maps of the several empires, kingdoms and states of the known world
[1758]