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Catalogue of atlases, maps and printed books relating to travel and exploration : including C. Ptolemaeus Geographiae, Strassburg (1513) and other editions of 1525 and 1584 ; A. Ortelius Theatrum orbis terrarum, Antwerp (1570) ; Parergon (1624) ; a fine composite atlas with maps by Ortelius, C. de Hooge, C. de Jode, H.F. van Langeren and others ; G. Mercator Atlas, Duisburg [1595] ; F.M. Levanto Specchio del mare (1664) ; P. Goos Nieuwe Groot Zee-Spiegel (1674) ; M. Pitt The English atlas (vol. 1) (1680) ; J. van Keulen Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zeefackel (1681-1689) ; V.M. Coronelli, Atlante Veneto (1690-1696) ; Isole Britanniche [c. 1705] ; M. Seutter Atlas novus [c. 1730] ; also atlases by Bickham, Buchon, Camden, Cary, Cellarius, De Fer, Horn, Janvier, Kitchin, Mitchell and others ; an important collection of wall maps comprising De Fer's Mappe-Monde, Asie, Amerique and Europe ; J.B. Nolin's Amerique (1775) ; Paolo Petrini's maps of the four continents (c. 1700) ; a collection of road books, including J. Ogilby Britannia (1675) ; and others by Armstrong, Badeslade, Cary, Owen and Bowen, Paterson and J. Garrett's 'Quartermaster's map' [c. 1676] ; single maps of all parts of the world ; printed books, including P. Apianus Libro della cosmographia (1548) ; J. Boemus Manners, lawes, and customes (1611) ; Sir G. Brydges Letters ... relative to the capture of St. Eustatius, presentation copy [1789] ; Olaus Magnus Historia ... de gentium septentrionalium (1567) ; [G. Orlowski] Costume of the Russian army (1807) ; Recueil de vues de la Suisse [1883] ; L. Rossini Le Antichita de contorni di Roma (1826) ; B. von Breydenbach Sanctarum peregrinationum, first edition (Mainz, 1486) ; and an important collection of books relating to Brazil, including C. Barlaeus Rerum per octennium in Brasilia (1647) ; I. Commelin Histoire de la vie ... de Frederic Henry de Nassau (1656) ; M. Tanner Societas Jesu, first edition, (Prague 1675), and other works |
