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1. A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.
Creator:
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753
Date:
1707-1725
Physical Description:
2 v., XI, 274 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. (frontispiece), map (engravings) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Scotiae Regni Antiqvissimi Accvrata Descriptio / Io Leslavs, Epus Rossen.

Scotiae Regni Antiqvissimi Accvrata Descriptio / Io Leslavs, Epus Rossen.
Creator:
Leslie, John, 1527–1596
Date:
MDLXXVIII [1578]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 40.5 x 53.5 cm, on sheet, 41.5 x 54.5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings / discribed and inlarged by I.S., ano. 1626 ; Abraham Goos Amstelodaminsis sculpsit.

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Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
[1662?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 36 x 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The true description or draffte of that famous Ile of Wighte : with some parte of the Englishe or Britaine coast and inwarde countreye of Hampshire and Sussex : wherein gentle reader you maye see the true distances sett downe by measure or scale of any parte thereof, also the particuler descriptions of hills, woodes, beacons, castells, rockes, and townes, whiche vnto this platt are adioyninge / made by Baptista Boazio.

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Creator:
Boazio, Baptista
Date:
1591
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 24 x 33 cm, on sheet 29 x 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Cambridge Shire / Sutton Nicholls sculp.

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Date:
[1695?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 41 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

6. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

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Creator:
Clúny, Alexander
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

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Creator:
Burdon, William
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
[2], 62 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi : à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville / inventé, dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis, graveur de la ville de Strasbourg.

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Creator:
Weis, Johann Martin, 1711–1751
Date:
[1748]
Physical Description:
[2], 20 pages, [1] leaf of plates, 11 folded leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 64 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware counties [cartographic material] / by Lewis Evans, MDCCXLIX ; L. Hebert, sculpt.

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Creator:
Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 map ; 63 x 47 cm, on sheet 66 x 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Britania, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : Illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones : the like never before published.

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Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:
[14], 464 pages, [63] leaves of plates (50 folded) : coats of arms, maps ; 36 cm (fol. in 4s)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Southamtoniae comitatus (preter insulas Vectis, Jersey et Garnsey quae sunt partes eius dem comitatus) cum suis undiq[ue] confinibus, oppidis, pagis, villis, et fluminibus vera descriptio / Christophorus Saxton descripsit ; Leonardus Terwoort Antverpianus sculpsit.

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Creator:
Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:
[1575]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 38 x 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Maris Pacifici (quod vulg ̣Mar del Zur) [cartographic material] : cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio.

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Creator:
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598
Date:
1589
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 33 x 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Les isles Britanniques, qui contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse, et Irlande : distinguiés en leurs principales provinces, subdiviseés en leurs shireries, et comtés / tiré de G. Cambdene, Chr. Saxton, I. Speed, I. Pont. R. Gordon, et de I.B. Boozius par G. Valck.

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Creator:
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
Date:
[approximately 1695]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand colored ; 46 x 56 cm, on sheet 51 x 61 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

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Creator:
Browne, Christopher, active 1684–1712
Date:
[1685?]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 48 x 55 cm, on sheet 53 x 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A map of the British and French dominions in North America [cartographic material] : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations / by their Lordships most obliged and very humble servant, Jno. Mitchell ; Tho. Kitchin, sculp.

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Creator:
Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:
Febry 13th, 1755
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 136 x 195 cm, on sheets 77 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Westmorland [cartographic material] / Robt. Morden.

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Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:
[1695]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 34 x 41 cm, on sheet 40 x 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts