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Exhibition History Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006)

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1. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes. : Contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by Englishmen and others. ... Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death more since added, his also perused, & perfected. : All examined, abreuiated, illustrated w[i]th notes, enlarged w[i]th discourses, adorned w[i]th pictures, and expressed in mapps. : In fower parts, each containing fiue bookes. / By Samuel Purchas, B.D.

Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes. : Contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by Englishmen and others. ... Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death more since added, his also perused, & perfected. : All examined, abreuiated, illustrated w[i]th notes, enlarged w[i]th discourses, adorned w[i]th pictures, and expressed in mapps. : In fower parts, each containing fiue bookes. / By Samuel Purchas, B.D.

Creator:: Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:: 1625
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Theatrum orbis terrarum.

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Creator:: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
Date:: [1571]
Physical Description:: 1 volume : 53 maps ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

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Date:: 1589
Physical Description:: [16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. La galerie agreable du monde : où l'on voit en un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roïaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses, avec leur situation, & ce qu'elles ont de plus remarquable : les iles, côtes, rivières, ports de mer, & autre lieux considerables de l'ancienne & nouvelle géographie : les antiquitez, les abbaies, eglises, academies, colleges, bibliotheques, palais, et autres edifices, tant publics que particuliers : comme aussi les maisons de campagne, les habillemens et moeurs des peuples, leur religion, les jeux, les fêtes, les ceremonies, les pompes & les magnificences : item les animaux, arbres, plantes, fleurs, quelque temples & idoles des païens & autres raretez dignes d'êtres vuës : dans les quatre parties de l'univers, divisée en LXVI tomes / les estampes aiant été dessinées sur les lieux & gravées exactement par les celébres Luyken, Mulder, Goerée, Baptist, Stopendaal, & par d'autres maïtres renomez, avec une courte description qui précede chaque empire, roïaume &c. & même avec le sommaire sous chaque planche ; le tout recueilli avec beaucoup de soin, de travail & de depense, pour l'utilité & pour le plaisir des amateurs de l'histoire & de la géographie.

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Date:: [1729?]
Physical Description:: 66 v. : chiefly ill., maps, plans ; 37-38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts