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Work Type armorial bookplates (provenance)

1. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

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Creator:: Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682–1761
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Terzo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio nel quale si contengono le nauigationi al Mondo Nuouo, à gli antichi incognito, fatte da don Christoforo Colombo Genouese, che fu il primo à scoprirlo à i Re Catholici, detto hora l'Indie occidentali, con gl' acquisti fatti da lui, & accresciuti poi da Fernando Cortese, da Francesco Pizzarro, & altri valorosi capitani, in diuerse parti delle dette Indie, in nome di Carlo V Imp. ; con lo scoprire la gran città di Temistitan nel Mexico, doue hora è detto la Nuova Spagna, & la gran prouincia del Perù, il grandissimo fiume Maragnon, et altre città, regni & prouincie ; la nauigationi fatte dipoi alle dette Indie, poste nella parte verso Maestro Tramontana, dette hora la Nuoua Francia, scoperta al Re Christianiss, la prima volta da Bertoni & Normandi, et dipoi da Giouanni da Verrazzano Fiorentino, & dal Capitano Iacques Carthier ; si come si legge nelle diuerse relationi, tradotte dal Ramusio di lingua spagnuola & francese nella nostra, & raccolte in questo volume, con tauole di geographia, che dimostrano il sito di diuerse isole, città, & paesi, et figure diuerse di piante, & altre cose à noi incognite, et con l'indice copiosissimo di tutte le cose piu notabili in esso contenute.

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Creator:: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:: l'anno MDLXV [1565]
Physical Description:: [6], 34, 453, 455-456 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated, with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William / by L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland ; to which are added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.

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Creator:: Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Date:: 1698
Physical Description:: [22], 243, [1], [32], 228 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple.

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Creator:: Popple, Henry, -1743
Date:: [1739]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 20 sheets ; sheets 53 x 72 cm or smaller, bound 53 x 41 cm. + 1 key map (48 x 47 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts