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Total number of records: 141

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Brotherton Collection9
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Ripon Cathedral1

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atlases, british79
atlases59
geography12
geography, ancient8
chronology, historical6
historical geography6
world history6
architecture, domestic4
architecture, renaissance4
atlases, russian4

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England70
Wales38
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British Isles8
America3
Ireland2
London (England)2
France1
Russia1
Scotland1

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Cary, John (1754-1835)16
Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784)9
Kitchin, Thomas8
Le Gear, Clara Egli8
Library of Congress8
Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division8
Library of Congress. Map Division8
Phillips, Philip Lee8
Phillips, Philip Lee (1857-1924)8
Hondius, Jodocus7

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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, 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...

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Handy reference atlas of the world

Bartholomew, J G (1860-1920)

1896

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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...

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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...

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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.

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