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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. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix, containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the arctick region / collected from most authentick authors, augmented with later observations, and adorn'd with maps and sculptures by John Ogilby Esq., His Majesty's cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of the revels in the kingdom of Ireland.

America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix, containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the arctick region / collected from most authentick authors, augmented with later observations, and adorn'd with maps and sculptures by John Ogilby Esq., His Majesty's cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of the revels in the kingdom of Ireland.
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:
[8], 674, [2] pages, [107] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Topographia Archiepiscopatuvm Moguntinensis, Trevirensis, et Coloniensis : das ist, Beschreibung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Plätz in denen Ertzbistumen Maÿnz, Trier, vnd Cöln.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
1646
Physical Description:
54, [6] p., 43, [34] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; fol.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Topographia Alsatiæ &c. completa : das ist, Vollkömliche Beschreibung und eygentliche Abbildung der vornehmbsten Städt und Oerther im Obern und Untern Elsass auch den benachbarten Sundgöw, Brissgöw, Graffschafft Mümpelgart and andern Gegenden / Jetzo auffs neu revidiret und mit dem jenigen was sonst in dem zuvor absonderlich gedruckten Anhang vermehret und an Tag gegeben und verlegt durch Matthæi Mariani Seel: Erben.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
im Jahr MDCLXIII [1663]
Physical Description:
[18], 70 pages, [38] leaves of plates : folded maps, plans (some folded), plates ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Theatrum civitatum nec non admirandorum Neapolis et Siciliae regnorum.

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Creator:
Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:
[1663]
Physical Description:
166 pages in various pagings, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Theatrum civitatum et admirandorum Italiae : ad aevi veteris & praesentis temporis faciem expressum / à Ioanne Blaeu, G.F.

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Creator:
Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:
MDCLXIII [1663]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations (engravings), maps, plans ; 58 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Topographia Hassiae, et regionum vicinarum : das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten Städte und Plätze in Hessen und denen benachbarten Landschafften, als Buchen, Wetterau, Westerwald, Löhngau, Nassau, Solms, Hanau, Witgenstein und andern / M.Z.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
Im Jahr MDCLV [1655]
Physical Description:
[2], 151, [9] p., [77] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (some folded), maps, plans ; 39 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Topographia Helvetiæ, Rhætiæ et Valesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnnd eygentliche Abbildung der vornemsten Stätte vnd Plätze in der hochlöblichen Eydgnossschafft, Graubündten, Wallis, vnd etlicher zugewandten Orthen / M.Z.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
Im Jahr MDCLIV [1654]
Physical Description:
90, [8] p., [80] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Topographia urbis Romæ, das ist eigentliche, Beschreibung der Stadt Rom : sampt allen antiquitäten, Pallästen, Amphitheatris oder Schauplätzen, Obeliscis, Pyramiden, Lustgärten, Bildern, Begräbnüssen, oberschrifften und vergleichen, so in und umb der Stadt Rom gefunden, und in vier Tagen ordentlich beschauet und gesehen werden können / in lateinischer Sprach beschrieben durch Joannem Jacobum Boissardum ; jetz aber in die teutche Sprach übersetzt, und die Figuren nach den numeris durch einem Liebhaber der Antiquität geordnet und an den Tag gegeben durch Dietrich de Bry.

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Creator:
Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528–1602
Date:
Im Jahr M. DC. LXXXI [1681]
Physical Description:
[iv], 74, [2] p., 101 leaves of plates : ill. (engravings), 2 plans ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. M.Z. Topographia Bohemiæ, Moraviæ et Silesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnd eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten vnd bekandtisten Stätte, vnd Plätze, in dem Königreich Boheim vnd einverleibten Landern Mähren, vnd Schlesien.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
1650
Physical Description:
192, [16] p., [37] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 32 cm (fol. in 4s)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Topographia Bavariæ, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätt vnd Orth in Ober vnd Nieder Beÿern, der obern Pfaltz, vnd andern, zum hochlöblichen Baÿrischen Craisse gehörigen Landschaften.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
MDCXLIV [1644]
Physical Description:
138, [8] p., [59] plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Topographia Italiæ : das ist, warhaffte und curiöse Beschreibung von gantz Italien, ... deme beygefügt eine kurtze und aussführliche Beschreibung derer im Königreich Morea befinden vornehmsten Städte und Plätze ... alles auss denem bewährtesten, alten und neuen Scribenten, mit netten Kupffer-Abbildungen aller hauptsächlichsten Städte, Fürstl. und anderer Palläste wie auch accuraten und künstlichen Land-Karten aussgefertiget und zumersten mal heraus gegeben : nebst einem vollständigen Register.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
MDCLXXXIIX [1688]
Physical Description:
[viii], 160, [11] p., 49 folded leaves of plates; 29, [3] p., 3 folded leaves of plates : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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

14. Topographia Sueviae, das ist, Beschreib. vnd aigentliche Abcontrafeitung der fürnembste[n] Stätt vnd Plätz in Ober vnd Nider Schwaben, Herzogthum Würtenberg, Marggraffschafft Baden vnd andern zu dem hochlöbl. schwabischen Craisse gehörigen Landtschafften vnd Orten.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
MDCXLIII [1643] [i.e. ca. 1655]
Physical Description:
[8], 232, [14] p., [109] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 3 maps ; 34 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Topographia Galliae, sive, Descriptio et delineatio famosissimorum locorum in potentissimo regno Galliae : partim ex usu & optimis scriptoribus diversarum linguarum, partim ex relationibus fide dignis per aliquot annos collectis, in ordinem redacta, & publico data / Per Martinum Zeillerum.

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Creator:
Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:
1655-1661
Physical Description:
13 pts in 4 v., [331] leaves of plates (276 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 39 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts