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1. The English pilot : the fourth book, describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones : particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water and anchorage, with all the islands therein : as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands : also, a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. : with many other things necessary to be known in navigation : the whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions / by the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.

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Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (4, 3-66 pages, [43] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The American atlas, or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America : wherein are delineated at large, its several regions, countries, states, and islands, and chiefly the British colonies, composed from numerous surveys, several of which were made by order of government / by Capt. Holland, Capt. Carver, Lewis Evans, William Scull, Henry Mouzon, Lieut. Ross, J. Cook, Michael Lane, Joseph Gilbert, Gardner, Hillock, &c. &c. ; engraved on forty-eight copper-plates by the late Mr. Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King, and others.

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Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2] leaves, [57] leaves of plates (some folded)) : 29 maps ; 54 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A set of thirty six new and correct maps of Scotland divided into its shires, &c. : a work long wanted, and very useful for all gentlemen that travel to any part of that kingdom / all, except two, composed and done by Herman Moll, geographer ...

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Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
[1725]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4] pages, [36] leaves of plates) ; 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The American atlas, or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America : wherein are delineated at large, its several regions, countries, states, and islands, and chiefly the British colonies / engraved on forty-eight copper-plates, by the late Mr. Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King, and others.

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Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2] leaves, [57] leaves of plates (some folded)) : 29 maps ; 58 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The English pilot : part I, describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports : together with the soundings, sands, rocks and dangers in the southern navigation upon the coasts of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the streights-mouth, with the coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madera, Cape de Verde, and Western Islands : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, &c.

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Date:
MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 92 pages, [44] leaves of plates) : illustrations, 22 maps ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The English pilot : the third book : describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, streights, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers : the islands, bays, roads, harbours and ports in the Oriental navigation ... divided into three parts ... : collected for the general benefit of our own countrymen.

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Date:
MDCCXLIII [1743]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (80 pages, [83] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improv'd : being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all [the] direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales : wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all [the] cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &c. scituate on or near the roads, with their respective distances in measured and computed miles ... / by Eman. Bowen engraver.

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 atlas (5, [3] pages, [2], 273, [1] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The American military pocket atlas : being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies ; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war : taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of Engineers de Brahm and Romans ; Cook, Jackson, and Collet ; Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty's fleets and armies.

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Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], vi-viii, [2] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world : with the natural history and trade of each country / taken from the best authors, particularly Cluverius, Brietius, Cellarius, Bleau, Baudrand, Hoffman, Moreri, the two Sansons, Luyts, the Atlas Historique, Sir John Chardin, Le Brun, Tournefort, &c. ; to which is prefix'd an introduction to geography ... ; together with a copious alphabetical index ; the maps, which are all engraven or revised by Mr. Senex, are laid down according to the observations communicated to the English Royal Society, the French Royal Academy of Sciences, and those made by the latest travellers ; and the descriptions suited to the course of each map, which has not been observed in any other atlas.

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Creator:
Senex, John, -1740
Date:
MDCC XXI [1721]
Physical Description:
[8], 272, 141-261, [11] pages, [75] leaves of plates : 34 maps, coats of arms ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The Atlantic Neptune [cartographic material].

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Creator:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729–1824
Date:
[1774-1800?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (8 volumes) : illustrations (some hand-colored), maps (some hand-colored) ; 83 x 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The gentleman's guide.

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Creator:
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (4 leaves) : hand col. maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A new and accurate survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark : with the country about it for nineteen miles in length and thirteen in depth... / by John Rocque ... = Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii nec non municipii Sudovercencis, regionumque ad decem quasi milliaria circumjacentium ... / a Johanne Rocque ... = Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Westminster, et bourg de Southwark et des leurs environs contenant l'espace de dixneuf miles en longeur et de trieze en largeur... / par Jean Rocque...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1751
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], [32] leaves) : maps ; 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. [Composite world atlas].

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Date:
[1799?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([142] leaves, some folded) : 74 hand-colored maps ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A set of fifty new and correct maps of England and Wales, &c. : with the great roads and principal cross-roads, &c. shewing the computed miles from town to town ... / all, except two, composed and done by Herman Moll, geographer ...

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Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
1724
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([51] leaves) : illustrations, maps ; 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The English pilot : part V, describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, ports : with the exact appearances and representations of the most principal marks, lands, &c. : together with the soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, and dangers, on the west-coat [sic] of Africa : from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Cape of Good Hope ...

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Date:
MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 42 pages, [38] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A description of the maritime parts of France : containing a particular account of all the fortified towns, forts, harbours, bays, and rivers, with their tides, currents, soundings, shoals, &c., also of all manufactures, and articles of commerce, and of the most remarkable invasions, sieges, and sea-fights, which have happened on or near that coast : illustrated with charts of the sea-coast, and plans of all the fortified places on it : collected from the best authorities / engraved by Tho. Jefferys ... ; to which are prefixed, a glossary, and plans of the several parts of fortification, on two plates, to explain the terms made use of in the work.

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Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:
MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:
[2], 4, [4], 10, 505, [1] pages ; 29 x 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A compleat sett of mapps of England and Wales in general, and of each county in particular : accurately projected in a new method and all of them original drawings, most humbly inscribed to His Majesty King George by Francis Negus, Comisioner for Executing the Office of Master of the Horse to His Majesty : drawn and finsh'd by Tho. Badeslade.

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Creator:
Badeslade, Thomas
Date:
1724
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([58] leaves) : maps ; 17 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Atlas minimus, or A new set of pocket maps of the several empires, kingdoms and states of the known world : with historical extracts relative to each / drawn and engrav'd by J. Gibson from the best authorities ; revis'd, corrected and improv'd by Eman. Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Gibson, J. (John), active 1750–1792
Date:
[1758]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4], 52, [1] leaves) : illustrations, 52 maps ; 12 cm (32mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A collection of plans of the principal cities of Great Britain and Ireland : with maps of the coast of the said kingdoms / drawn from the most accurate surveys ; in particular, those taken by the late Mr. J. Rocque ...

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Date:
[1764]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], [22], [18] leaves) : 22 maps, 18 plans (some folded) ; 13 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Great Britain's coasting-pilot : in two parts : being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland from the River of Thames to the westward and northward : with the islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle : likewise the islands of Orkney and Shetland, describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place : the setting and flowing of the tides : with directions for the knowing of any place, and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety : with directions for coming into the channel between England and France / by Captain Greenville Collins, Hyrdographer in Ordinary to the King's most excellent Majesty.

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Creator:
Collins, Greenvile, active 1669–1698
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 30 pages, [95] leaves of plates) : 49 maps ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts