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| People and organisations | Count |
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| Cary, John (1754-1835) | 16 |
| Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784) | 9 |
| Kitchin, Thomas | 8 |
| Le Gear, Clara Egli | 8 |
| Library of Congress | 8 |
| Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division | 8 |
| Library of Congress. Map Division | 8 |
| Phillips, Philip Lee | 8 |
| Phillips, Philip Lee (1857-1924) | 8 |
| Hondius, Jodocus | 7 |
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Atlas moderne : ou, collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du clobe terrestre (v.1)
Nicolle de La Croix, Louis Antoine; Bonne, Rigobert
[1787?]
The "Avertissement" states that the abbé Nicolle de la Croix, before his death, wished to prepare an atlas to accompany his Geographie moderne, and that is was partly to carry out his views that this...
Atlas moderne : ou, collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du clobe terrestre (v.2)
Nicolle de La Croix, Louis Antoine; Bonne, Rigobert
[1787?]
The "Avertissement" states that the abbé Nicolle de la Croix, before his death, wished to prepare an atlas to accompany his Geographie moderne, and that is was partly to carry out his views that this...
Cary's new universal atlas : containing distinct maps of all the principal states and kingdoms throughout the world from the latest and best authorities extant
Cary, John (1754-1835)
1808
Greenwich meridian. Relief shown by hachures and shading.
Cary's new universal atlas : containing distinct maps of all the principal states and kingdoms throughout the world from the latest and best authorities extant
Cary, John (1754-1835)
1808
Title on 2 leaves. Greenwich meridian. Relief shown by hachures and shading. New universal atlas.
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, pp.69-70)
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...
La république française en LXXXIV départemens; dictionnaire géographique et méthodique, destiné aux administrateurs, négocians, gens d'affaires, et à ceux qui étudient la géographie de la France
Prudhomme, Louis Marie (1752-1830)
1793
"Avis de l'éditeur L. P.": p. [v]-vj. Maps engraved by P.F. Tardieu.
Laurie and Whittle's new and improved English atlas : divided into counties: shewing their respective situations, boundaries, and extent, produce, mines, minerals, trade, and manufactures; also the cities, market and principal towns, hills, rivers, navigable canals, etc., etc., with the turnpike and principal roads, accurately laid down from the most recent surveys and authorities; together with an alphabetical list of the most remarkable antiquities, monasteries, castles, seats, and parks; also an accurate description of the fairs in each county
Laurie, Robert; Whittle, James
1807
Maps previously appeared in The universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, from 1791-97. They were engraved by B. Baker of Islington, and closely copied the maps in Cary's new and correct English a...
English topography : or, A series of historical and statistical descriptions of the several counties of England and Wales. Accompanied by a map of each county
Cole, G D H (1889-1959); Nightingale, Joseph (1775-1824); Roper, John; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; Vernor, Hood & Sharp
1816
Preface signed J. Nightingale, and dated October, 1816. Map imprints: "Drawn and engraved under the direction of E.W. Brayley & J. Britton. Engraved by J. Roper, from a drawing by G. Cole to accompa...
A New county atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, containing sixty-eight coloured maps
Hughes, William (1817-1876)
[1873]
Atlas sive Cosmographicæ meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura
Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612); Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624)
1630
Text in French. A reduced version of Mercator's maps of 1595 but entirely different from those in the Atlas Minor. Most of the maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Wh...
Atlas minor : das ist, ein kurtze jedoch grundliche Beschreibung der gantzen Welt und aller ihrer Theyl
Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612)
1631
This has revised maps and text, both of which are more comprehensive than in the earlier Atlas minor. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collecion... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 27.