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1. 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.

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

2. Britannia, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones ...

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:: [14], 464 p., [113] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 50 maps plan ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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.

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

4. Notes biographical and bibliographical on The Atlantic Neptune.

Creator:: Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 24 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Picturesque geography.

Creator:: Green, James, 1771–1834
Date:: [1817?]
Physical Description:: 5 sheets : maps ; each sheet 50 x 62 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The general history of the vast continent and islands of America : commonly call'd the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof : with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities / collected from the original relations sent to the kings of Spain, by Antonio de Herrera ; historiographer to His Catholick Majesty ; translated into English by Capt. John Stevens ... ; illustrated with cutts and maps.

Creator:: Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, -1625
Date:: MDCCXXV-MDCCXXVI [1725-1726]
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A brief narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay : through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Ship Griper, in the year MDCCCXXIV / by Captain G.F. Lyon, R.N. ; with a chart and engravings.

Creator:: Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:: MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:: xvi, 198, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Appendiculae historicae, or, Shreds of history hung on a horn / by Fred. W. Lucas.

Creator:: Lucas, Fred. W. (Frederic William)
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: iv, 216 p., [9] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Tales about Europe, Asia, Africa, and America / by Peter Parley ; embellished with 137 engravings.

Creator:: Parley, Peter
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: [2], x, 506 : ill., maps ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Remarks in support of the new chart of North and South America : in six sheets / by J. Green.

Creator:: Green, John, -1757
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: [2], iv, [3]-48 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage / Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.

Creator:: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Date:: 1577
Physical Description:: [10], 466, [6] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555 / Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galuano, Gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe island of the Malucos: corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford.

Creator:: Galvão, António, -1557
Date:: 1601
Physical Description:: [12], 97, [3] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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.

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

14. 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.

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

15. 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.

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

16. Pvrchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present. : Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Flovd, the heathenish, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / By Samuel Purchas, ...

Creator:: Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:: 1626
Physical Description:: [44], 242, 241-636, 635-1047, [37] p. (the first four pages blank), [1] double leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Bibliothecae Americanae primordia : an attempt towards laying the foundation of an American library, in several books, papers, and writings, humbly given to the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for the perpetual use and benefit of their members, their missionaries, friends, correspondents, and others concern'd in the good design of planting and promoting Christianity within Her Majesties colonies and plantations in the West-Indies / by a member of the said Society.

Creator:: Kennett, White, 1660–1728
Date:: 1713 [i.e. 1714]
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [1], xvi, 3-132,125-275, [225] p. ; 22 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people. With the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties. Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.

Creator:: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:: MDCXCIX [1699]
Physical Description:: [8], 248, 40 p., [2] double plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

Creator:: Clúny, Alexander
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Britania, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : Illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones : the like never before published.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:: [14], 464 pages, [63] leaves of plates (50 folded) : coats of arms, maps ; 36 cm (fol. in 4s)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America / by Henry William Herbert ... ; with steel-engraved original portraits of celebrated horses ... ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Herbert, Henry William, 1807–1858
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. An historical account of the rise and growth of the West- India collonies : and of the great advantages they are to England, in respect to trade : licenced according to order.

Creator:: Thomas, Dalby, Sir
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: [6], 53, [1] pages : 1 table ; 20 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The horse of the Americas.

Creator:: Denhardt, Robert Moorman, 1912–
Date:: 1947
Physical Description:: xvii, 286 p. illus., ports., maps. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The American gazetteer : containing a distinct account of all the parts of the New World; their situation, climate, soil, produce, former and present condition, commodities, manufactures, and commerce : together with an accurate account of the cities, towns, ports, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, passes, and fortifications : the whole intended to exhibit the present state of things in that part of the globe, and views and interests of the several powers who have possessions in America : illustrated with proper maps : in three volumes.

Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections / by I.N. Phelps Stokes.

Creator:: Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867–1944
Date:: 1915-1928
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations (some color, some folded), facsimiles, maps ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America : forming a part of the library of E. D. Church / compiled and annotated by George Watson Cole.

Creator:: Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835–1908
Date:: 1907
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : facsimiles (part color) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Beyond the battlefield : women artists of the two world wars / Catherine Speck.

Creator:: Speck, Catherine
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

28. A new world : England's first view of America / Kim Sloan with contributions by Joyce E. Chaplin, Christian F. Feest and Ute Kuhlemann.

Creator:: Sloan, Kim
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Comparative cartography : exemplified in an analytical and bibliographical description of nearly one hundred maps and charts of the American continent, published in Great Britain during the years 1600 to 1850 / by Henry Stevens and Roland Tree.

Creator:: Stevens, Henry Newton, 1855–1930
Date:: c1951
Physical Description:: p. 305-363 ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Atlas of the historical geography of the United States, by Charles O. Paullin. Edited by John K. Wright.

Creator:: Paullin, Charles Oscar, 1868 or 1869–1944
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., iii-xv p., 1 l., 162 p., 1 l. 688 maps (part col.) on 166 pl. (part double) 37 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. America pictured to the life : illustrated works from the Paul Mellon bequest / by George A. Miles and William S. Reese.

Creator:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 123 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Adventures in Americana, 1492-1897 : The romance of voyage and discovery from Spain to the Indies, the Spanish Main, and North America; inland to the Ohio country; on toward the Mississippi; through to California; over Chilkoot Pass to the gold fields of Alaska. Being a selection of books from the library of Herschel V. Jones, Minneapolis, Minnesota. With a preface by Dr. Wilberforce Eames.

Creator:: Jones, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1861–1928
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: 2 v. : facsims. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. Selling empire : India in the making of Britain and America, 1600-1830 / Jonathan Eacott.

Creator:: Eacott, Jonathan
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: vii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

34. New world encounters / edited by Stephen Greenblatt.

Date:: c1993
Physical Description:: xviii, 344 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. Colonial inventions : landscape, power, and representation in nineteenth-century Trinidad / by Amar Wahab.

Creator:: Wahab, Amar
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: xv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

36. The first delineation of the New world and the first use of the name America on a printed map; an analytical comparison of three maps for each of which priority of representation has been claimed (two with name America and one without) with an argument tending to demonstrate that the earliest in each case is the one discovered in 1893 and now preserved in the John Carter Brown library at Providence, R.I.; by Henry N. Stevens ...

Creator:: Stevens, Henry Newton, 1855–1930
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: xvi, 127, [1] p., ll. illus. (incl. facsims) 2 fold. maps (in pocket) 33 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

37. Gardens and cultural change : a Pan-American perspective / edited by Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter.

Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: 110 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. A list of maps of America in the Library of Congress, preceded by a list of works relating to cartography. By P. Lee Phillips, F. R. G. S., chief of the Division of Maps and Charts.

Creator:: Library of Congress. Map Division
Date:: 1901
Physical Description:: 1137 p. 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

39. The last voyage of Thomas Cavendish, 1591-1592 : the autograph manuscript of his own account of the voyage, written shortly before his death : from the collection of Paul Mellon / with an introd., transcription, and notes by David Beers Quinn.

Creator:: Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–1592
Date:: [1975]
Physical Description:: ix, 165 p. : ill. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. Wilde Americk : discovery and exploration of the New World.

Date:: 2001
Physical Description:: 16 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 14 x 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

41. America : early maps of the new world / edited by Hans Wolff on behalf of the Bavarian State Library ; [with contributions by Susi Colin ... et al. ; translated by Hugh Beyer ... et al.].

Date:: c1992
Physical Description:: 192 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. A new world for a new nation : the promotion of America in early modern England / Francisco J. Borge.

Creator:: Borge, Francisco J
Date:: c2007
Physical Description:: 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Illustrated americana, 1493-1889. Articles read to the American Antiquarian Society by James F. Hunnewell ...

Creator:: Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832–1910
Date:: 1890
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., [3]-37 p. front. (port.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. European visions : American voices / edited by Kim Sloan.

Date:: c2009
Physical Description:: viii, 142 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. Art treasures of America : the John F. Eulich Collection : Sotheby's auction in New York ; 21 November 2017 approximately 11:30 am.

Creator:: Sotheby's (Firm)
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: 108 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly colored) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. A la carte; selected papers on maps and atlases. Compiled by Walter W. Ristow.

Creator:: Ristow, Walter W. (Walter William), 1908–2006
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: x, 232 p. illus. 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

47. The new world : a catalogue of an exhibition of books, maps, manuscripts and documents held at Lambeth Palace Library between 1 May and 1 December 1957 together with transcripts of five unpublished documents in the library relating to the early history of the American continent.

Creator:: Lambeth Palace Library
Date:: 1957
Physical Description:: 94 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

48. The discovery of North America [by] W. P. Cumming, R. A. Skelton [and] D. B. Quinn.

Creator:: Cumming, William Patterson, 1900–
Date:: [1971]
Physical Description:: 304 p. illus. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. 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.

4. Notes biographical and bibliographical on The Atlantic Neptune.

5. Picturesque geography.

7. A brief narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay : through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Ship Griper, in the year MDCCCXXIV / by Captain G.F. Lyon, R.N. ; with a chart and engravings.

8. Appendiculae historicae, or, Shreds of history hung on a horn / by Fred. W. Lucas.

9. Tales about Europe, Asia, Africa, and America / by Peter Parley ; embellished with 137 engravings.

10. Remarks in support of the new chart of North and South America : in six sheets / by J. Green.

21. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America / by Henry William Herbert ... ; with steel-engraved original portraits of celebrated horses ... ; in two volumes.

22. An historical account of the rise and growth of the West- India collonies : and of the great advantages they are to England, in respect to trade : licenced according to order.

23. The horse of the Americas.

25. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections / by I.N. Phelps Stokes.

26. A catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America : forming a part of the library of E. D. Church / compiled and annotated by George Watson Cole.

27. Beyond the battlefield : women artists of the two world wars / Catherine Speck.

28. A new world : England's first view of America / Kim Sloan with contributions by Joyce E. Chaplin, Christian F. Feest and Ute Kuhlemann.

29. Comparative cartography : exemplified in an analytical and bibliographical description of nearly one hundred maps and charts of the American continent, published in Great Britain during the years 1600 to 1850 / by Henry Stevens and Roland Tree.

30. Atlas of the historical geography of the United States, by Charles O. Paullin. Edited by John K. Wright.

31. America pictured to the life : illustrated works from the Paul Mellon bequest / by George A. Miles and William S. Reese.

33. Selling empire : India in the making of Britain and America, 1600-1830 / Jonathan Eacott.

34. New world encounters / edited by Stephen Greenblatt.

35. Colonial inventions : landscape, power, and representation in nineteenth-century Trinidad / by Amar Wahab.

37. Gardens and cultural change : a Pan-American perspective / edited by Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter.

38. A list of maps of America in the Library of Congress, preceded by a list of works relating to cartography. By P. Lee Phillips, F. R. G. S., chief of the Division of Maps and Charts.

39. The last voyage of Thomas Cavendish, 1591-1592 : the autograph manuscript of his own account of the voyage, written shortly before his death : from the collection of Paul Mellon / with an introd., transcription, and notes by David Beers Quinn.

40. Wilde Americk : discovery and exploration of the New World.

41. America : early maps of the new world / edited by Hans Wolff on behalf of the Bavarian State Library ; [with contributions by Susi Colin ... et al. ; translated by Hugh Beyer ... et al.].

42. A new world for a new nation : the promotion of America in early modern England / Francisco J. Borge.

43. Illustrated americana, 1493-1889. Articles read to the American Antiquarian Society by James F. Hunnewell ...

44. European visions : American voices / edited by Kim Sloan.

45. Art treasures of America : the John F. Eulich Collection : Sotheby's auction in New York ; 21 November 2017 approximately 11:30 am.

46. A la carte; selected papers on maps and atlases. Compiled by Walter W. Ristow.

47. The new world : a catalogue of an exhibition of books, maps, manuscripts and documents held at Lambeth Palace Library between 1 May and 1 December 1957 together with transcripts of five unpublished documents in the library relating to the early history of the American continent.

48. The discovery of North America [by] W. P. Cumming, R. A. Skelton [and] D. B. Quinn.