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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
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Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
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Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
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Ptolemy, active 2nd century
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Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
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Wit, Frederik de, 1629 or 1630–1706
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Maps & Atlas (printed)
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unknown
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16th century
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17th century
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18th century
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world atlase
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atlase
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engraving
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booksellers' labels (provenance)
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composite atlase
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hand-coloring
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nautical chart
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woodcut
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Geography -- Early works to 1800.
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Atlases -- Early works to 1800.
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Chiesa di Santa Maria in Traspontina (Rome, Italy) -- Ownership.
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Coasts.
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Francino, Giovanni Battista, 1631–1698 -- Autograph.
1
Geography, Ancient.
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Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1878–1956 -- Stamp.
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Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640–1705 -- Ownership.
1
Streeter, Thomas W. (Thomas Winthrop), 1883–1965 -- Bookplate.
1
Ughelli, Ferdinando, 1595–1670 -- Ownership.
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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)
2
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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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura
anno 1632
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Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
Theatrum orbis terrarum
XX Maij MDLXX [1570]
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Wit, Frederik de, 1629 or 1630–1706
Atlas
[not before 1688]
4
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
Theatrum orbis terrarum
MDLXXIIII [1574]
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Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Claudii Ptolemaei Geographicae enarrationis libri octo
Anno a Christi natiuitate MDXXV, tertio Kal[ends] Apriles [30 March 1525]
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Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur
[circa 1703?]
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Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Atlas novus, sive, Descriptio geographica totius orbis terrarum
1638
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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Atlas siue Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura
anno 1595
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Atlas maior, sive, Cosmographia Blauiana
MDCLXII [1662]