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1. Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde or thymage of the same.

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Date:
1481]
Physical Description:
[100] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas : containing his cosmographicall descriptions of the fabricke and figure of the world / lately rectified in diuers places, as also beutified and enlarged with new mapps and tables by the studious industrie of Iodocus Hondy ; englished by W.S. generosus & regin. Oxoniae.

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Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:
1637
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([22], 56, 55-56, [2], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 5 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A briefe description of the whole worlde : Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same: newly augmented and enlarged; with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning.

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Creator:
Abbot, George, 1562–1633
Date:
1605
Physical Description:
[164] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Policronicon.

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Creator:
Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Date:
ended the thyrtenth daye of Apryll the tenth yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seuenth. And of the incarnacyon of our lord: MCCCC lxxxxv [13 April 1495]
Physical Description:
[50], CCCxxxvi, CCCxxxvi-CCCxlvi, [1] leaves : illustrations, music ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes and common-weales in the worlde : relating their scituations, manners, customes, ciuill gouernment, and other memorable matters / translated into English, and enlarged, with an addition of the relation of the states of Saxony, Geneua, Hungary, and Spaine; in no language euer before imprinted.

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Creator:
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Date:
1603
Physical Description:
[4], 268 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts