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1. La mer des hystoires.

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Date:
[July 1488-Feb. 1489]
Physical Description:
2 v. (270, the last leaf blank; 310 leaves, leaf 274 blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 42 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Tercia Europe tabula.

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Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
[1486]
Physical Description:
1 map : woodcut ; 35 x 36 cm, on sheet 41 x 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Prima Europa tabula.

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Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
[1486]
Physical Description:
1 map : woodcut ; 35 x 39 cm, on sheet 41 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

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Creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:
1704
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The history and antiquities of the county of Essex : compiled from the best and most ancient historians, from Domesday-book, Inquisitiones post mortem, and other the most valuable records and mss. &c. / the whole digested, improved, perfected, and brought down to the present time, by Philip Morant ; illustrated with copper plates.

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Creator:
Morant, Philip, 1700–1770
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. (some folded), 9 maps, plan ; 48 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulchrum dominicum in Hierusalem eius tum laudes tum fructus paucis attollens, intentionemq[ue] exprimens auctoris [et] operis diuisionem incipit feliciter.

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Creator:
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440–1497
Date:
[29 July 1490]
Physical Description:
[104] leaves : illustrations, map (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

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Creator:
Dampier, William, 1652–1715
Date:
MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Sexta Europe tabula.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
[1486]
Physical Description:
1 map : woodcut ; 34 x 54 cm, on sheet 41 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ÿmagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di.

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Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440–1514
Date:
duodecima mensis Iulij anno salutis n[ost]r[a]e. 1493
Physical Description:
[20], CCXCIX, [9] leaves : 1809 illustrations, 2 maps (woodcuts) ; 50 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Pomponij Mellae Cosmographi geographia : Prisciani quoq[ue] ex Dionysio Thessalonicensi de situ orbis interpretatio. Pomponij Mellae de orbis situ Liber primus. Prooemium.

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Creator:
Mela, Pomponius
Date:
.15. Calen[das] Augusti anno salutis nostr[ae] 1482 [18 July 1482]
Physical Description:
[96] pages : map ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts