Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673): DUCATUS EBORACENSIS - ANGLICE YORKSHIRE

Amsterdam. 1648

Measuring 39.5 x 50.5cms. Hand coloured to outline and to cartouche and incidental illustrations. Vignette illustrations to the title cartouche and distance scale at the lower corners. Decorated with three coats of arms. VERY GOOD condition with no tears or repairs, just light darkening to the margins. Dutch text to verso. Mounted, framed and glazed.

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Callander, John: TERRA AUSTRALIS COGNITA, OR, VOYAGES TO THE TERRA AUSTRALIS, OR SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE DURING THE SIXTEENTH, SEVENTEENTH, AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES.

Edinburgh, Printed by A. Donaldson, and sold at his shops in London and Edinburgh. 1766 - 1768

Containing an Account of the Manners of the People, and the Productions of the Countries, hitherto found in the Southern Latitudes; the Advantages that may result from further Discoveries on this Great Continent, and the Methods of establishing Colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. First edition, first printing. Three volumes. Modern full calf with raised bands and gilt titles to the spine. Two of the three folding engraved charts by Robert de Vaugondy are present. Lacks “Straits of...

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Wright, Thomas edits: THE ROYAL DICTIONARY CYCLOPEDIA, FOR UNIVERSAL REFERENCE; BEING A COMPLETE LITERARY, CLASSICAL, HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL EXPOSITOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited. [c.1860]

First edition. Fifteen Volumes as issued to subscribers. Bound in the publisher’s original cloth with gilt titles to the spines. Illustrated throughout with fine engraved plates including 27 literary and historical portraits, 12 topographical engravings and 32 fold out maps (one hand coloured). Engraved title page to volume one and extra title pages for rebinding into five volumes present to the rear of volume fifteen. The condition is generally VERY GOOD, the cloth showing some rubbing, bumping...

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