The English pilot: describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Subject (Geographic):
Atlantic Ocean --Maps --Early works to 1800, Maryland --Maps --Early works to 1800, New Jersey --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Virginia --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic):
Navigation --Early works to 1800, Pilot guides --Atlantic Coast (U.S.) --Early works to 1800, and Pilot guides --Caribbean Area --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
London : Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and son, on Tower-Hill, MDCCLIX [1759]
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.
Atlas fisico y politico de la Republica de Venezuela ... por ... Agustin Codazzi ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Alternative Title:
Carta del Canton de Caycara de la provincia de la Guayana
Description:
Double page width, tab mounted. and Lith. de Thierry Fres. Cite Bergere 1 a Paris, printers.
Subject (Geographic):
Apure (Venezuela)--Maps, Bolivar (Venezuela : State)--Maps, Guayana Region (Venezuela)--Maps, Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia), and Venezuela --Maps
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824
Published / Created:
1775?-1781?]
Call Number:
1983 Folio 25
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
A made-up collection of charts, plans and views, partly hand colored, from the Atlantic Neptune comprising [v. 1]: the charts of the South East Coast of Nova Scotia, with the title page of The charts of the coast and harbors of New England, 1781 bound in front (31 items, dated between 1777 and 1781). [v. 2]: Charts of the coast and harbours in the Gulph and river of St. Lawrence, 1780, including the charts of the coast of New England (36 items, dated between 1775 and 1781). [v. 3]: Charts of several harbours and divers parts of the coast of North America from New York south westwards to the Gulph of Mexico, 1780, including some 16 charts belonging to the New England part of the work (35 items, dated between 1776 and 1781). General title page wanting.
Description:
Includes indexes.
Publisher:
The Admiralty,
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps and North America--Pictorial works
The history of the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave-trade
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
Autographed presentation copy to Mrs. Elizabeth Cookson from S.T. Coleridge; on fly-leaf at front of v.1 is Mrs. Wordsworths manuscript copy of her husbands sonnet, "To Thos. Clarkson, on the final passing of the bill for the abol and Folded map facing p. 259