The English atlas : Volume I. Containing a description of the places next the North-Pole; as also of Muscovy, Poland, Sweeden, Denmark, and their several dependances. With a general introduction to geography, and a large index, containing the longitudes and latitudes of all the particular places, thereby directing the reader to find them readily in the several maps (v.2)
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Title: The English atlas : Volume I. Containing a description of the places next the North-Pole; as also of Muscovy, Poland, Sweeden, Denmark, and their several dependances. With a general introduction to geography, and a large index, containing the longitudes and latitudes of all the particular places, thereby directing the reader to find them readily in the several maps (v.2)
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 448 fol.
Additional creator(s): Pitt, Moses (fl. 1654-1696) (Other); Nicolson, William (1655-1727) (Other); Peers, Richard (1645-1690) (Other)
Related people: Pitt, Moses; Nicolson, William; Peers, Richard
Publisher: printed at the Theater, for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Pauls-Church-Yard, London
Publication city: Oxford
Date(s): 1680
Language: English
Size and medium: 5 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299713
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004069659705181
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Originally offered to subscribers as prospective work in 11 volumes of which only four were published, and the text of a fifth volume in 1682. Volume 2 is dated 1681.
Contents: v.1. Description of the places next the North Pole, as also of Muscovy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and their several dependencies -- v.2. Description of part of the empire of Germany, viz. the upper and lower Saxony,.. Mecklenburg, Bremen, Magdeburg, &c., .. Brandenburg and Misnia .. the Palatinate of the Rhine, and the kingdom of Bohemia / by William Nicolson --v.3. Description of the remaining part of the empire of Germany, viz. Schwaben, the palatinate of Bavaria, Arch-Dukedom of Austria, Kingdom of Hungary, Principality of Transylvania, the Circle of Westphalia, with the neighboring provinces / by William Nicolson -- v.4. The description of the seventeen provinces of the Low-Countries, or Netherlands / by Richard Peers.
Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) P2306 (v.1).
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