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Exhibition History Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)

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1. Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima : priùs quidem per Episcopum Bartholomæum Casaum, natione Hispanum Hispanicè conscripta, & Anno 1551. Hispali, Hispanicè, Anno verò hoc 1598.

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Creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:
Anno M.D.XCVIII [1598]
Physical Description:
[8], 141, [3] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A new and compleat map of all America : also of the West Indies and other islands depending thereon : with a copious table fully shewing the several possessions of each European prince and state, as settled by the definitive treaty concluded at Paris Feby. 10th, 1763 the clauses of which relative thereto are inserted / by John Gibson ...

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Creator:
J. G. (John Gibson)
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 104 x 121 cm., folded to 26 x 15 cm., in case 27 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The theatre of the empire of Great-Britain : presenting an exact geography of the kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the isles adjoyning : as also the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-towns within the kingdom of England and principality of Wales : with a chronology of the civil-wars in England, Wales and Ireland : together with a prospect of the most famous parts of the world, viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America : with these empires and kingdoms therein contained, viz. Grecia, Roman-Empire, Germany, Bohemia, France, Belgia, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Poland, Persia, Turkish-Empire, Kingdom of China, Tartaria, Summer-Islands / by John Speed.

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Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:
[16], 126, 5-6, 5-8, [22], 129-146, [14], 56, [12] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, coats of arms, tables ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum, per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur.

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Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
Date:
[approximately 1716?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2] pages, 95, 132 leaves of plates) : 227 maps ; 54 x 68 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer vnderstanding of the whole matter.

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Creator:
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:
1582
Physical Description:
[124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. America, siue, India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui vniversalis imitationem in compendium redacta / per Michaelem Mercatorem, Duysburgensem.

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Creator:
Mercator, Michael, d. 1600
Date:
between 1613 and 1630]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col. ; 33.8 in diam.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

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Creator:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598
Date:
1590[-1630]
Physical Description:
14 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae cum tabulis et universali figura et cum additione locorum quae recentioribus reperta sunt diligenti cura emendatus et impressus [cartographic material].

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Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
Anno Domini. M.D.XI. die. xx. mensis Martii. [March 22, 1511]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([62] leaves, [28] double leaves of plates) : ill., maps ; 43 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the four yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly oserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.

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Date:
1609
Physical Description:
[8], 180 p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The Spanish colonie, or Briefe chronicle of the acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies, called the newe World, for the space of XL. yeeres / written in the Castilian tongue by the reuerend Bishop Bartholomew de las Casas or Casaus, a Friar of the order of S. Dominicke. And nowe first translated into English, by M. M. S.

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Creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:
1583
Physical Description:
[148] p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. America quarta pars orbis ...

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Creator:
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571–1638
Date:
[1686?]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 83 x 106 cm, on sheet 87 x 111 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A description of the New World. Or, America islands and continent : and by what people those regions are now inhabited. And what places are there desolate and without inhabitants. And the bays, rivers, capes, forts, cities and their latitudes, the seas on their coasts: the trade, winds, the North-west passage, and the commerce of the English nation, as they were all in the year 1649 / faithfully described for information of such of his countrey as desire intelligence of these perticulars. By George Gardyner of Peckham, in the county of Surrey Esq.

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Creator:
Gardyner, George
Date:
1651
Physical Description:
[16], 187, [3] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa, and Asia.

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Creator:
Green, John, -1757
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 1753.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts