"The first part of the Historie of the vvorld .. The third booke" (caption title) begins new pagination on 4A1r., Anonymous. By Sir Walter Raleigh., Includes indexes and errata., Maps are hand colored. Autograph and inscription opposite p. 1 of the third book: John Bird, Galby, Leicestershire. 1768 and 1780., Maps are tab bound between noted pages., Printer's name and bookseller's address from colophon., Signatures: pi³ A-E⁴ a-c⁶ d² B-3I⁶ 3K⁴ 4A-6T⁶ 6V-6Y⁴ 7A-7C⁶., and The title page is engraved and signed: Ren: Elstrack sculpsit.
Publisher:
Printed [by William Stansby] for Walter Burre [, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane],
Subject (Geographic):
Arabian Peninsula--Maps--Early works to 1800, Middle east --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Palestine--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Bird, John, fl. 1768-1780 --Autograph
Subject (Topic):
History, Ancient and Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C.--Early works to 1800
All volumes bound to match 1973 Folio 72. Factitious collection of about 549 maps taken from the atlases of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th cent., put together with the title "Atlas" and bound in 6 volumes. These volumes originally bore the imprint: Amstelaedamii apvd Reiniervm & Josvam Ottens. Over these words on the title-pages of v. 1-2, 4-6 is the name of Henrik de Leth who painted them. Volume 3 has only the erased imprint of Ottens., For fuller description see Phillips 3448 and C. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1800, Amsterdam c1967-71, v. 2, p. 63-83., and Maps by P. Schenck and son, G. Valck, F. de Wit, N. Visscher and others.
Publisher:
chez J. Covens & C. Mortier,
Subject (Geographic):
Denmark --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Reiner et Josua Ottens (Firm), Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719., and Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 1652-1726.