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atlases4
geography2
atlases, dutch1
atlases, russian1
cartography1
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Jansson, Jan (1588-1664)7
Blaeu, Joan6
Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673)6
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638)6
Hondius, Jodocus4
Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612)4
Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594)4
Rocque, John (1762)3
Hexham, Henry2
Hexham, Henry (1585?-1650?)2

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Studies in carto-bibliography, British and French : and in the bibliography of itineraries and road-books

Fordham, Sir Herbert George (1854-1929)

1914

Frontispiece accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

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Atlas Russicus : mappa una generali et undeviginti specialibus vastissimum Imperium Russicum cum adiacentibus regionibus secundum leges geographicas et recentissimas observationes delineatum exhibens

L'Isle, Joseph Nicolas de (1688-1768); Imperatorska︠i︡a Akademi︠i︡a Nauk

1745

Signatures: A-D². Compiled under the direction of Joseph Nicolas Delisle. Text in Latin and French. The maps are preceded by a list of maps, in Latin and French; a Russian alphabet; a list of g...

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Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii Appendix Atlantis, oder, desz Welt-Buchs : darinnen viel unterschiedliche, neue, und weitläufftige Beschreibungen, mit deroselben Tabellen, von Teutschland, Franckreich, Niederland, Italien, auch einer und der andern Indien begrieffen

Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612); Jansson, Jan (1588-1664); Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594)

1636

Contains 6 county maps, of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Norfolk, Essex and Somersetshire respectively, which are in an earlier state than the usual well-known Jansson maps of those counties. This ...

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Atlas, or A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world : through Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, represented by new & exact maps (v.1)

Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612); Hexham, Henry (1585?-1650?)

1636

The only edition to be published with the text in English of the famous Mercator and Hondius Atlas, i.e. the Mercator's atlas of 1595, much enlarged by Hondius in 1606. The title-pages are those of th...

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Atlas, or A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world : through Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, represented by new & exact maps (v.2)

Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612); Hexham, Henry (1585?-1650?)

1636

The only edition to be published with the text in English of the famous Mercator and Hondius Atlas, i.e. the Mercator's atlas of 1595, much enlarged by Hondius in 1606. The title-pages are those of th...

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Jefferys's itinerary; or travellers companion, through England, Wales, and part of Scotland : containing all the direct and principal cross roads; with the addition of every new road, carefully collected from all the actual surveys hitherto published. Improved with many thousand names of places more than are in any similar publication

Jefferys, Thomas (1771)

1775

The engraved plates for the strip maps used by M. Desnos for his French edition (Nouvel atlas d'Angleterre... [etc.]) were acquired by Jefferys, who thoroughly revised them for this edition. Cf. Whita...

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Novus Atlas, das ist Weltbeschriebung : Mit schönen newen aussführlichen Land-Taffeln in Kupffer gestochen und an den Tag gegeben (v.4)

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638); Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673)

1647-1655

Six volumes of the extremely rare German edition of Blaeu's atlas. This seems to be all that were published with German text, according to Tiele's Nederlandsche Bibliographie, 1884. This edition was n...

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Novus Atlas, das ist Weltbeschriebung : Mit schönen newen aussführlichen Land-Taffeln in Kupffer gestochen und an den Tag gegeben (v.5)

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638); Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673)

1647-1655

Six volumes of the extremely rare German edition of Blaeu's atlas. This seems to be all that were published with German text, according to Tiele's Nederlandsche Bibliographie, 1884. This edition was n...

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Novus Atlas, das ist Weltbeschriebung : Mit schönen newen aussführlichen Land-Taffeln in Kupffer gestochen und an den Tag gegeben (v.1)

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638); Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673)

1647-1655

Six volumes of the extremely rare German edition of Blaeu's atlas. This seems to be all that were published with German text, according to Tiele's Nederlandsche Bibliographie, 1884. This edition was n...

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Novus Atlas, das ist Weltbeschriebung : Mit schönen newen aussführlichen Land-Taffeln in Kupffer gestochen und an den Tag gegeben (v.2)

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638); Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673)

1647-1655

Six volumes of the extremely rare German edition of Blaeu's atlas. This seems to be all that were published with German text, according to Tiele's Nederlandsche Bibliographie, 1884. This edition was n...

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Novus Atlas, das ist Weltbeschriebung : Mit schönen newen aussführlichen Land-Taffeln in Kupffer gestochen und an den Tag gegeben (v.3)

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638); Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673)

1647-1655

Six volumes of the extremely rare German edition of Blaeu's atlas. This seems to be all that were published with German text, according to Tiele's Nederlandsche Bibliographie, 1884. This edition was n...

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Novus Atlas, das ist Weltbeschriebung : Mit schönen newen aussführlichen Land-Taffeln in Kupffer gestochen und an den Tag gegeben (v.6)

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638); Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673)

1647-1655

Six volumes of the extremely rare German edition of Blaeu's atlas. This seems to be all that were published with German text, according to Tiele's Nederlandsche Bibliographie, 1884. This edition was n...

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