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1. Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: anno Christi Opt. Max. MDXIII. Marcii XII [1513]
Physical Description:: [2], 5-60, [32] leaves (last leaf blank), [92] leaves of plates : ill., 47 maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. To Captain John Wood this map of the world drawn according to Mercators projection humbly dedicated by Robt. Morden & Willm. Berry.

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Creator:: Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:: [approximately 1682?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand colored ; 48 x 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The first delineation of the New world and the first use of the name America on a printed map; an analytical comparison of three maps for each of which priority of representation has been claimed (two with name America and one without) with an argument tending to demonstrate that the earliest in each case is the one discovered in 1893 and now preserved in the John Carter Brown library at Providence, R.I.; by Henry N. Stevens ...

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Creator:: Stevens, Henry Newton, 1855–1930
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: xvi, 127, [1] p., ll. illus. (incl. facsims) 2 fold. maps (in pocket) 33 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

4. A la carte; selected papers on maps and atlases. Compiled by Walter W. Ristow.

A la carte; selected papers on maps and atlases. Compiled by Walter W. Ristow.

Creator:: Ristow, Walter W. (Walter William), 1908–2006
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: x, 232 p. illus. 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library