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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Period 17th century

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1. Africa : being accurate description of the regions of AEgypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billendulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, AEthiopia, and the Abyssines : with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages : their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure, with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents / collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations ; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq. master of His Majesties revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.

Africa : being accurate description of the regions of AEgypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billendulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, AEthiopia, and the Abyssines : with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages : their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure, with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents / collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations ; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq. master of His Majesties revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
MDC LXX [1670]
Physical Description:
[18], 38, [2], 39-146, [2], 147-281, [3], 283-304, [2], 305-314, [2], 315-488, [2], 489-632, [2], 633-658, [2], 659-767, [1] pages, [98] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 41 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Africa [cartographic material].

Africa [cartographic material].
Creator:
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
Date:
[ca. 1686?]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand colored ; 57 x 94 cm, on sheet 62 x 102 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. [India Orientalis].

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Date:
1597[-1628]
Physical Description:
13 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta / Joannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

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Creator:
Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Date:
anno MDC [1600]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([36] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Mundus imperiorum, siue de mundi imperiis libri quatuor : das ist, Beschreibung aller Keyserthumb vnd Königreich, auch aller fürnembsten Fürstenthumb vnd Herzschafften der ganssen Welt, sampt volkomlicher Erzehlung ihrer Macht, Reichthumb, vnd Vermögens, in 4. Theil abgetheiler ... / Auss Italianischer Sprach ins Teutsch gebracht, durch Johann von Brüssel, die ander Edition sehr gemehret vnd gebessert.

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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:
im Iahr MDCII [1602]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([120] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Illustriorum Hispaniae urbium tabulae : cum appendice celebriorum alibi aut olim aut nunc parentium Hispanis, aut eorum civitatum commerciis florentium.

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Creator:
Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:
[1657]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (252 pages in various pagings, [3] leaves of plates (2 folded)) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 51 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts