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1. A new system of geography : designed in a most plain and easy method ... : accommodated with new mapps of ... the whole world : with geographical tables explaining the divisions in each mapp / by John Seller ...

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Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:
[1685]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4], 112 [i.e. 110 p.], [53] leaves of plates : 51 maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A book of the habits, customes, and manners of diverse nations : as also the prospects of cityes, townes, temples and others structures in severall parts of the world / collected by John Seller, Senr., and are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping.

A book of the habits, customes, and manners of diverse nations : as also the prospects of cityes, townes, temples and others structures in severall parts of the world / collected by John Seller, Senr., and are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping.
Date:
[169-?]
Physical Description:
[65] leaves (some folded) : all ill. ; 16 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:
1630
Physical Description:
[8], 644, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A briefe description of the whole worlde : Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same: newly augmented and enlarged; with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning.

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Creator:
Abbot, George, 1562–1633
Date:
1605
Physical Description:
[164] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Geography rectified: or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ... As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy six maps.

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Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
8 p.., 596 [i.e. 592] p. ill. (maps) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Atlas, or, A geographicke description of the regions, countries and kingdomes of the world, through Europe, Asia, Africa, & America, represented by new and exact maps / translated by Henry Hexham, quarter-maister to the regiment of Colonell Goring.

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Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:
anno 1636[-1638]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps (some folded), portraits ; 49 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas : containing his cosmographicall descriptions of the fabricke and figure of the world / lately rectified in diuers places, as also beutified and enlarged with new mapps and tables by the studious industrie of Iodocus Hondy ; englished by W.S. generosus & regin. Oxoniae.

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Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:
1637
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([22], 56, 55-56, [2], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 5 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Theatrum orbis terrarum / Abrahami Orteli Antuerp. Geographi Regij = The theatre of the whole world / set forth by that excellent geographer Abraham Ortelius.

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Creator:
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
Date:
1606 [i.e. 1608?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([510] pages) : 192 maps ; 42 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Geography anatomized, or, A compleat geographical grammar : being a short and exact analysis of the whole body of modern geography ... : to which is subjoin'd the present state of the European plantations in the East and West Indies, with a reasonable proposal for the propagation of the blessed gospel in all pagan countries ... : illustrated with diverse maps / by Pat. Gordon ...

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Creator:
Gordon, Patrick, active 1700
Date:
1693
Physical Description:
[16], 208 p., [36] leaves of plates : maps ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Geographia universalis : the present state of the whole world : giving an account of the several religions, customs and riches of each people, the strength and government of each polity and state, the curious and most remarkable things in every region, with other particulars necessary to the understanding history and the interest of princes / written originally at the command of the French king, for the use of the Dauphin, by the sieur Duval ...

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Creator:
Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619–1682
Date:
1691
Physical Description:
[8], 376 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes and common-weales in the worlde : relating their scituations, manners, customes, ciuill gouernment, and other memorable matters / translated into English, and enlarged, with an addition of the relation of the states of Saxony, Geneua, Hungary, and Spaine; in no language euer before imprinted.

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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:
1603
Physical Description:
[4], 268 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A geographical description of the four parts of the world taken from the notes & workes of the famous Monsieur Sanson, geographer to the French king, and other eminent travellers and authors : to which are added the commodities, coyns, weights, and measures of the chief places of traffick in the world, compared with those of England, (or London) as to the trade thereof : also, a treatise of travel, and another of traffick, wherein the matter of trade is briefly handled : the whole illustrated with variety of useful and delightful mapps and figures / by Richard Blome.

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Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
1670
Physical Description:
[12], 113, [5], 82, [4], 138, [6], 56, [2], 55, [1] pages, [25] folded leaves of plates : 25 maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Cosmographie, in four books : containing the chorographie and historie of the whole world, and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas, and isles thereof / by Peter Heylyn ; with an accurate and an approved index of all the kingdoms, provinces, countries, inhabitants, people, cities, mountains, rivers, seas, islands, forts, bays, capes, forests, &c. of any remarque in the whole world ; much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last impression, revised and corrected by the author himself immediately before his death ...

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Creator:
Heylyn, Peter, 1600–1662
Date:
1666
Physical Description:
[14], 1098, [4], 1089-1095, [40] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : 4 maps ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas : containing his cosmographicall description of the fabricke and figure of the world / lately rectified in divers places, as also beautified and enlarged with new mappes and tables by the studious industry of Iudocus Hondy ; Englished by W.S. generosus, & Coll. Regin. Oxoniae.

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Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:
1635
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([22], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 2 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps (1 folded) ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts