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This small volume provides the practical details needed to navigate the new road systems. Cary's maps, with the colour-coded distinctions among roads, beautifully conveys the intricate networks of communication that increasingly encouraged local…

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1 map in 6 sections ; 73 x 81 cm. sections each 36 x 26 cm. + explanatory book (115 p. ; 40 cm.)

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These two maps show how little was known about Antarctica as late as 1825. Weddell managed to sail just over 200 miles farther south than Cook before fleeing the impending winter, and his record was not bettered until 1911. His book was revised and…

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1 map in 12 sections ; 90 x 101 cm., sections each 28 x 36 cm. + explanatory book (70 p. ; 40 cm.)

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1 map in 12 sections ; 79 x 150 cm., sections each 25 x 37 cm. + explanatory book (31 p. ; 38 cm.)
Scale indeterminable.
In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1625

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1 map in 12 sections ; 148 x 145 cm., sections each 37 x 48 cm. + explanatory book (10 p. ; 43 cm.)
Scala di mille passi che fanno in miglio Italiano.
In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1676.
Facsimile reprint of 1676 edition.
Inset:…

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1 map in 12 sections ; 139 x 166 cm., sections each 35 x 56 cm. + explanatory book (35 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.
Scale indeterminable.
Reprint of 1748 map.
Title from explanatory book.

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1 map in 12 sections ; 105 x 243 cm., sections each 51 x 40 cm. + explanatory book (12 p. ; 44 cm.)
Facsimile reprint on 1606 ed.
On case title: La pianta di Roma del 1606 (1593).

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1 map in 24 sections + explanatory book (61 p.) ; in case.

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Remembered as a translator of Ovid and the Psalms, Sandys was initially a great traveller both to the east and then to the American colonies. This map of Jerusalem is carefully constructed to accompany Sandys's narrative; the reader proceeds in…

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William Dampier was the most successful English buccaneer, redeeming his reputation as a mercenary adventurer by aspiring to the role of scientific explorer. This world map, drawn by Herman Moll, the premier cartographer of his day, shows the known…
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