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1. De i commentarii del viaggio in Persia di m. Caterino Zeno il K. & delle guerre fatte nell' imperio persiano, dal tempo di Vssuncassano in quà libri due : Et dello scoprimento dell'isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engrouelanda, Estotilanda, & Icaria, fatto sotto il Polo artico, da due fratelli Zeni, m. Nicolò il K. e m. Antonio. Libro vno. Con vn disegno particolare di tutte le dette parte di Tramontana da lor scoperte.

De i commentarii del viaggio in Persia di m. Caterino Zeno il K. & delle guerre fatte nell' imperio persiano, dal tempo di Vssuncassano in quà libri due : Et dello scoprimento dell'isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engrouelanda, Estotilanda, & Icaria, fatto sotto il Polo artico, da due fratelli Zeni, m. Nicolò il K. e m. Antonio. Libro vno. Con vn disegno particolare di tutte le dette parte di Tramontana da lor scoperte.
Creator:
Zeno, Niccolò, 1515–1565
Date:
MDLVIII [1558]
Physical Description:
58 leaves, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. (1 map) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
anno Christi Opt. Max. MDXIII. Marcii XII [1513]
Physical Description:
[2], 5-60, [32] leaves (last leaf blank), [92] leaves of plates : ill., 47 maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. La cosmographie vniverselle / d'André Thevet cosmographe du roy ; illustree de diverses figures des choses plus remarquables veuës par l'auteur, & incogneuës de noz anciens & modernes ...

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Creator:
Thevet, André, 1502–1590
Date:
1575
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer vnderstanding of the whole matter.

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Creator:
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:
1582
Physical Description:
[124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende warhafftige vnd volkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften, Insulen, Königreichen vnd Provintzien, Seecusten ... in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyses : dessgleichen, gründlicher Bericht von der Innwohner Beschaffenkeit, Sitten ... vnd Gebräuchen ... / alles auss verscheidenen west-indianischen Historien-Schreibern, vnnd mancherley Sprachen ... zusammen getragen, extrahirt, in ein richtige Ordnung der Materien vnd Zeit, vnd in diese käuffliche Form bracht durch Johan Ludwig Gottfriedt ; mit zugehörigen Landtafeln, Contrafacturen vnd ... Kupfferstücken ... geziert vnd verlegt, durch Mattheum Merian ...

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Creator:
Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent
Date:
1631
Physical Description:
[12], 562, 72 p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555 / Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galuano, Gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe island of the Malucos: corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford.

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Creator:
Galvão, António, -1557
Date:
1601
Physical Description:
[12], 97, [3] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. L'histoire naturelle et generalle des Indes, isles, et terre ferme de la grand mer oceane / traduicte de castillan en francois.

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Creator:
Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478–1557
Date:
1556
Physical Description:
[6], 134 leaves : ill. coats of arms ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the four yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly oserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.

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Date:
1609
Physical Description:
[8], 180 p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage / Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.

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Creator:
Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Date:
1577
Physical Description:
[10], 466, [6] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien : wt veelderhande schriften ende aen-teeckeninghen van verscheyden natien by een versamelt / door Ioannes de Laet, ende met noodighe kaerten ende tafels voorsien.

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Creator:
Laet, Joannes de, 1581–1649
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
[24], 510, [16] p., [18] leaves of plates : maps ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The Spanish colonie, or Briefe chronicle of the acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies, called the newe World, for the space of XL. yeeres / written in the Castilian tongue by the reuerend Bishop Bartholomew de las Casas or Casaus, a Friar of the order of S. Dominicke. And nowe first translated into English, by M. M. S.

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Creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:
1583
Physical Description:
[148] p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. America, sive novus orbis, tabulis Aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineatus / Ioannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

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Creator:
Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Date:
anno à partu Virgineo MDC [1600]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([84] pages) : illustrations, 20 maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Nouus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum : una cum tabula cosmographica, & aliquot alijs consimilis argumenti libellis, nunc nouis nauigationibus auctus, quorom omnium catalogus sequenti patebit pagina : his accessit copiosus rerum memorabilium index : adiecta est huic postremae editioni Nauigatio Caroli Cæsaris auspicio in comitijs augus︠t︡anis ins︠t︡ituta.

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Date:
1555
Physical Description:
[52], 1-99, 200-677, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts