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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Reference Library
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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
2
Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
1
Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478–1557
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Franck, Sebastian, 1499–1542
1
Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
1
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, -1625
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Maximilian, of Transylvania, active 1522
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Thevet, André, 1502–1590
1
Wytfliet, Corneille
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1536
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1964
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
11
Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
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Under Certain Circumstances
11
Free to Use
1
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11
Available
1
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Books
11
Maps & Atlas (printed)
1
Creator Gender
unknown
12
Period
16th century
7
17th century
3
18th century
1
20th century
1
Work Type
woodcut
6
engraving
4
armorial bindings (binding)
1
exploration literature
1
travel literature
1
Subject Terms
America -- Early accounts to 1600.
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America -- Discovery and exploration.
3
Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.
3
America -- Description and travel.
2
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.
2
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
2
Geography -- Early works to 1800.
2
Indians.
2
Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)
2
Voyages and travels.
2
Voyages around the world.
2
Ailesbury, Charles Bruce, Earl of, 1682–1747 -- Bookplate (BEIN)
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America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
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China -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
1
Church history.
1
Dalkeith Palace -- Bookplate.
1
Discoveries in geography -- Early accounts to 1600.
1
Discoveries in geography.
1
Early maps -- Facsimiles.
1
Eugene, of Savoy, Prince of Savoy, 1663–1736 -- Provenance.
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17th century
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18th century
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America
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Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)
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China
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Guinea
1
Iran
1
Japan
1
Latin America
1
Maluku (Indonesia)
1
Northwest Passage
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Russia
1
Scandinavia
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Spain America
1
Associated People
Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535–1594
1
Jenkinson, Anthony, d. 1611
1
Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521
1
Exhibition History
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
1
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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English
3
Latin
3
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
2
Dutch
1
French
1
German
1
Italian
1
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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis
1622
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Franck, Sebastian, 1499–1542
Chronica, tytboeck en gheschiet bibel
1595
3
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, -1625
The general history of the vast continent and islands of America
MDCCXXV-MDCCXXVI [1725-1726]
4
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same,
1582
5
Thevet, André, 1502–1590
La cosmographie vniverselle
1575
6
Maximilian, of Transylvania, active 1522
Il viaggio fatto da gli Spagniuoli a torno a'l mondo
MDXXXVI [1536]
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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde
1622
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Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes
1577
9
Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien
1631
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Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478–1557
L'histoire naturelle et generalle des Indes, isles, et terre ferme de la grand mer oceane
1556
11
Nouus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum
1555
12
Wytfliet, Corneille
Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum,
1964]