Bookplate of Peter E. Keyser. Bookplate signed by P.D. Keyser ... Philadelphia, Pa., Manuscript label on cover: A-24., and Includes ninety-three blanks pages at end.
Subject (Geographic):
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.), Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia.
Freducci, Conte di Ottomano, active 1497-1539, cartographer
Published / Created:
[1536?]
Call Number:
Covers 49 +1536
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Pen-and-ink in black, red, blue, green, and gold., Four charts, each measuring 33 x 43 cm, mounted on composite boards and edged with vellum, bound in boards covered by blue cloth with label pasted on front cover (No. [1906/242 in manuscript])., and Inscription on third chart (Mediterranean region from the Strait of Gibraltar to the coast of Greece), "Yhs ma [ver]go Conte freducci de ancona la facta nela[n]no MCCCCCXXXVJ."
Publisher:
Conte di Ottomano Freducci
Subject (Geographic):
Mediterranean Region, North Atlantic Ocean, and Baltic Sea
BEIN Folio G1244 N48 S26 1973: Imperfect: sheets 351-352 wanting. Disbound., Title from accompanying letter., Unpublished. Available upon request at the Sanborn Map Company, Inc., Also referred to by Publisher as Atlas of New Haven, Connecticut., and Contains information on population, prevailing winds, water facilities and fire department.
Title supplied by cataloger. and "This book of charts was taken out of a Chinese trading junk of between 400 & 500 tons burden, trading from the gulf of Pechili in China to the straits of Singapore, by Philip Bean, of H.M.S. Herald, in the year of 1841; the junk being taken as a seige by the 'Herald'"--inscription from front free endpaper in 19th century hand.