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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. Twelve remarkable views in North America and West Indies.

Twelve remarkable views in North America and West Indies.
Date:
[between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A description of the Spanish islands and settlements on the coast of the West Indies / compiled from authentic memoirs, revised by gentlemen who have resided many years in the Spanish settlements ; and illustrated with thirty-two maps and plans, chiefly from original drawings taken from the Spaniards in the last war, and engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[4], xxiv, 106, [2] pages, 32 folded leaves of plates : maps, plans ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682–1761
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. West-Indische paskaert : waer in de graden der breedde over weder zijden vande middellijn wassende so vergrooten dat die geproportioneert sijn tegen hunne nevenstaende graden der lengde. vertonende behalve Europaes zuydelijcste alle de seekusten van Africa en America, begrepen in 't Octroy bij de H.M.H. Staten Generael der vereenigde Nederl. verleent aende Generale West Indische Compagnie.

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Creator:
Goos, Pieter, approximately 1616–1675
Date:
[approximately 1660]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand colored, vellum ; 77 x 96 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën : mitsgaders andere gewesten, ter eerster ontdekking en soo vervolgens van verscheyde volkeren, meerendeels door vorsten, of maatschappyen derwaarts gesonden, gedaan; waar van eenige noyt gedrukt, andere nu eerst uyt haar oorspronkelijke taalen overgeset, en sommige merkelijk verbeterd zijn; beginnende met het jaar 1246. en eyndigende op dese tijd; zijnde een waaragtige en bondige beschrijving van veele vreemde koningrijken, landschappen en steeden, der selver benamingen, gelegentheden, sterktens, stroomen, zee-havens, goud-en-silver-mijnen, peerl-visseryen, en menigvuldige wonderen; benevens de oorlogs-daden en gedenk-waardige bedrijven der ontdekkers, in her op-doen deser landen voorgevallen; voorts hunne gevaarlijke en seldsame ontmoetingen, merk-waardige geschiedenissen, grouwsame verwoestingen, voorname volk-plantingen en vestiging der koopmanschappen aldaar. Alles doorgaans met nodige land-kaarten, menigte konst-printen, en bequame registers verrijkt.

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Date:
1707
Physical Description:
28 [i.e. 29] v. : ill., maps. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien : wt veelderhande schriften ende aen-teeckeninghen van verscheyden natien by een versamelt / door Ioannes de Laet, ende met noodighe kaerten ende tafels voorsien.

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Creator:
Laet, Joannes de, 1581–1649
Date:
1625
Physical Description:
[24], 510, [16] p., [18] leaves of plates : maps ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

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Creator:
Cowley, J. (John)
Physical Description:
23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

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Creator:
Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:
MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:
24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A new map of the English plantations in America [cartographic material] : both continent and ilands : shewing their true situation and distance from England or one with another / by Robert Morden ... and William Berry.

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Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:
[ca. 1677]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 42 x 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A description of the island of Jamaica : with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related, viz. Barbadoes, St. Christophers, Nievis or Mevis, Antego, St. Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Barbada, Bermudes, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New England, New-Found-Land : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places. Illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.

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Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
[8], 192 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. (maps) ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; his shipwrecks; his marrying an Indian wife; his narrow escape from the island of Dominico, &c. : intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; with his shipwreck in the Baltick, being the only man that escap'd; his being taken by the Indians of Virginia, &c. / written by himself, now alive.

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Creator:
Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766
Date:
1720
Physical Description:
[3], page viii, 72, 136, 179, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

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Creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:
1704
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. An account of the expedition to the West Indies against Martinico : with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the Leeward Islands : subject to the French king, 1759 / by Captain Gardiner of the King's Royal Musqueteers, late Captain of Marines on board his Majesty's Ship Rippon, employed on this expedition.

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Creator:
Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[6], 91, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates (2 folded) : i lllustrations, maps ; 31 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Nova typis transacta navigatio : Novi Orbis Indiæ Occidentalis admodum reverendissimorum PP. ... Dn. Buellii Cataloni abbatis montis Serrati, & in vniversam Americam, sive Novum Orbem sacræ sedis Apostolicæ Romanæ â latere legati, vicarij, ac patriarchæ : sociorumq[ue] monarchorum ex Ordine S.P.N. Benedicti ad suprà dicti Novi Mundi barbaras gentes Christi S. Evangelium prædicandi gratia delegatorum sacerdotum dimissi per S.D.D. Papam Alexandrum VI. Anno Christi 1492 : nunc primum e varijs scriptoribus in vnum collecta, & figuris ornata / authore venerando Fr. Don Honorio Philopono Ordinis S. Benedicti Monacho.

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Creator:
Philoponus, Honorius
Date:
1621.]
Physical Description:
[12], 101, [3] p., [1], 18 leaves of plates : ill., music ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts