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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
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Speed, John, 1552?-1629
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Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571–1638
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Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
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Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598
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Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
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Galvão, António, -1557
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Gardyner, George
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Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
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Laet, Joannes de, 1581–1649
1
Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
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Mercator, Michael, d. 1600
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Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
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Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
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Philoponus, Honorius
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Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
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Thomas, Dalby, Sir
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Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
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Books
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Maps & Atlas (printed)
7
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17th century
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16th century
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engraving
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map
6
woodcut
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early work
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armorial binding
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armorial bookplates (provenance)
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atlase
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california as an island
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history
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tracts (literary works)
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America -- Description and travel.
6
America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
5
America -- Discovery and exploration.
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America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Early works to 1800.
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America -- Early accounts to 1600.
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America.
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Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
3
Great Britain -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
3
Voyages and travels.
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America -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
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America -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.
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Great Britain -- Description and travel.
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Indians of North America -- Early works to 1800.
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Indians of South America -- Early works to 1800.
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Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)
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Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.
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West Indies -- Description and travel.
2
America -- Atlases -- Early works to 1800.
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America -- Early works to 1800.
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America -- History -- To 1810.
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America
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Great Britain
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West Indies
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Arctic regions
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Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)
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Antarctica
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Florida
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Great Britain America
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Great Britain West Indies
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India
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Islamic Empire
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Latin America
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Maryland
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Peru
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Russia
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South America
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Spain America
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Virginia
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West Indies British West Indies
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Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–1592
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Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596
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Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
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Soto, Hernando de, ca. 1500–1542
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Exhibition History
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
6
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
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Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
America
MDCLXXI [1671]
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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis
1622
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Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
America
[ca. 1686]
4
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings
[1662?]
5
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Pvrchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present.
1626
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Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Britannia, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging
MDCLXXII [1673]
7
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde
1622
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Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world
1630
9
Laet, Joannes de, 1581–1649
Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien
1625
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Mercator, Michael, d. 1600
America, siue, India Nova
between 1613 and 1630]
11
Galvão, António, -1557
The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555
1601
12
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
The theatre of the empire of Great-Britain
MDCLXXVI [1676]
13
Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598
Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ..
1590[-1630]
14
Thomas, Dalby, Sir
An historical account of the rise and growth of the West- India collonies
1690
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Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien
1631
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Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Britania, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging
MDCLXXII [1673]
17
Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour
1609
18
Gardyner, George
A description of the New World. Or, America islands and continent
1651
19
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America
MDCXCIX [1699]
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Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571–1638
America quarta pars orbis ..
[1686?]
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Philoponus, Honorius
Nova typis transacta navigatio
1621.]
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Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
To Captain John Wood this map of the world drawn according to Mercators projection humbly dedicated by Robt. Morden & Willm. Berry
[approximately 1682?]
23
Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
America, sive novus orbis, tabulis Aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineatus
anno à partu Virgineo MDC [1600]