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geography, ancient11
nature in the bible6
zoology6
geography3
maps, early2
astronomy1
atlases1
atlases, russian1
calendar1
church and state1

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Braunschweig (Germany : State)1
Hesse Darmstadt (Germany)1
India1
Iran1
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Saxony (Germany)1
Switzerland1

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Bochart, Samuel (1559-1667)7
Villemandy, Pierre De7
Leusden, Johannes (1624-1699)6
Morin, Etienne (1624-1700)6
Ptolemy3
Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. Or 529 B.C2
Estienne, Henri (1531-1598)2
Hutchinson, Thomas (1698-1769)2
Leunclavius, Johannes (1533?-1593)2
Muret, Marc-Antoine (1526-1585)2

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Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicæ enarrationis, libri octo

Ptolemy; Pirckheimer, Willibald (1470-1530); Servetus, Michael (1511?-1553)

1541

A second edition of the Ptolemy of Servetus, the first being that of 1535. The maps are from the same blocks as in the editions of Laurentius Fries in 1522 and W. Pirckheimer in 1525, both of which we...

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Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicæ enarrationis, libri octo

Ptolemy; Pirckheimer, Willibald (1470-1530); Servetus, Michael (1511?-1553)

1541

A second edition of the Ptolemy of Servetus, the first being that of 1535. The maps are from the same blocks as in the editions of Laurentius Fries in 1522 and W. Pirckheimer in 1525, both of which we...

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Clave geographica para aprender geographía los que no tienen maestro

Flórez, Enrique (1702-1773)

1793

Originally published as 1st part of vol. 1 of Espana sagrada.

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Samuelis Bocharti Geographia sacra, seu, Phaleg et Canaan : cui accedunt variae dissertationes philologicae, geographicae, theologicae, &c. Antehac ineditae; ut et tabulae geographicae et indices, longè quam antea luculentiores & locupletiores

Bochart, Samuel (1559-1667); Villemandy, Pierre de

1692

Title vignette; initials; head and tail pieces. Title page printed in red and black. Errors in paging: col. 779-789, 877, 1056-1144 omitted, 1044-1045 repeated. In double columns. "Geographiæ...

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Geographiae universae tum veteris, tum novae absolutissimum opus, duobus voluminibus distinctum : in quorum priore habentur Cl. Ptolemaei Pelusiensis Geographicæ enarrationis libri octo

Ptolemy; Magini, Giovanni Antonio (1555-1617); Porro, Girolamo (1520-1604)

1597

Format: 8 leaves per gathering; horizontal chain-lines.

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Salutaris lux evangelii toti orbi per divinam gratiam exoriens, sive Notitia historico chronologica, literaria et geographica propagatorum per orbem totum christianorum sacrorum

Fabricius, Johann Albert (1668-1736); Julian Emperor of Rome (331-363); Gregorius Abessinus

1731

Printer's mark on t.-p. Final leaf: Addenda ad pag. 619.

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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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Rymbegla, sive Rudimentum computi ecclesiastici et annalis veterum Islandorum : in quo etiam continentur chronologica, geographica, astronomica, geometrica, theologica, nonnulla ex historia universali & naturali rariora

Bjarnarson, Stefán (1730-1798); Jón Árnason (1665-1743); Finnur Jónsson (1704-1789)

1780

Icelandic and Latin on opposite pages. Added title-page with engraved vignette. "The name Ríbegla... refers properly only to the first part, viz. p. 1-114 in this edition: this treatise preserved...

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Geographica antiqua, hoc est: Scylacis Periplus maris mediterranei. Anonymi Periplus Mæotidis paludis et Ponti Euxini. Agathemeri Hypotyposis geographiæ omnia Græco-Latina. Anonymi expositio totius mundi Latina

Vossius, Isaac (1618-1689); Gronovius, Jacobus (1645-1716); Dodwell, Henry (1641-1711)

1700

"Dissertationis de Scylacis ætate examen", by H. Dodwell.

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