[Atlas factice of 96 maps by Blaeu, Visscher, Jansson, Hondius and others]
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
All four sides of map decorated with city views and costumed figures of different social classes. Includes coats of arms., Imperfect: torn along fold, with some loss of text; portions of decorative border cut or torn and repaired, with missing sections replicated in ms.; tears repaired., and No. 5 of 92 maps bound together.
[Atlas factice of 32 maps and 1 distance table, produced by the Homann Erben firm]
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Carte des XVII. provinces ou de l’Allemagne inferievre, dressee suivant la projection stereographique, et appueyee par les mesures faites de Mess. Cassini, Snellius et Mouschenbrok, par Mr. Tob. Majer de la Societe geographique, et publiee par les Heritiers de Homann, l’An 1748
Publisher:
Cura et Studio Homannianorum Heredum
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium --Maps --Early works to 1800, Benelux countries --Maps --Early works to 1800, Luxembourg --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Netherlands --Maps --Early works to 1800
[Atlas factice of 32 maps and 1 distance table, produced by the Homann Erben firm]
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Belgium Catholicum seu decem provinciae Germaniae inferioris and Carte des Pais Bas catholiques ou des X provinces de l’Allegmagne inferieure, etc. dessinee au juste selon les exactes observations astronomiques et operations geometriques des Messur. Cassini, Snellius, Muschenbrok, etc. dressee par Sr. Tobias Maier, mathematicien; aux depens des Heritiers de Homann
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Luxembourg --Maps --Early works to 1800
The English pilot: describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens
Image Count:
1
Description:
Most maps numbered in pencil on verso, some on recto.
Subject (Geographic):
Atlantic Ocean --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Newfoundland and Labrador --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 John Thornton, at the sign of the England, Scotland, and Ireland, in the Minories, and Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1698London : Printed for John Thornton, at the sign of the England, Scotland, and Ireland, in the Minories, and Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1698