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  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • Title page of Finke's Versuch Einer Allgemeinen... Geographi
  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
  • Astronomy: a savant in his study, instructing a group of gentlemen. Engraving, 1748.
  • Theatrvm orbis terrarvm / Opus nunc denuò ab ipso auctore recognitum, multisquè locis castigatum, et quamplurimis nouis tabulis atquè commentarijs auctum.
  • Theatrvm orbis terrarvm / Opus nunc denuò ab ipso auctore recognitum, multisquè locis castigatum, et quamplurimis nouis tabulis atquè commentarijs auctum.
  • Three men in a library, one seated, two others using a large globe and charts. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Theatrvm orbis terrarvm / Opus nunc denuò ab ipso auctore recognitum, multisquè locis castigatum, et quamplurimis nouis tabulis atquè commentarijs auctum.
  • Theatrvm orbis terrarvm / Opus nunc denuò ab ipso auctore recognitum, multisquè locis castigatum, et quamplurimis nouis tabulis atquè commentarijs auctum.
  • Leonardo de Piero Dati, <i>La sfera</i>
  • The human habitat / Ellsworth Huntington.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Ethnography: the races and characteristic dress of the world. Mixed method engraving attributed to S. Himely after A.M. Perrot.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • A map of Paraguay and surrounding area, illustrating where cinchona (quinine) was allegedly first discovered in 1626(?). Etching by D.V. Rossi.
  • The imaginary castle of the Countess of Chinchon, where cinchona (quinine) was allegedly discovered. Watercolour.
  • Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende Warhafftige vnd vollkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften / Insulen / Königreichen vnd Provintzien / Seecusten / fliessenden vnd stehenden Wassern / Port vnd Anländungen / Gebürgen / Thälern / Stätt / Flecken vnd Wohnplätzen / zusampt der Natur vnd Eygenschafft dess Erdrichs / der Lufft / der Mineren vnd Metallen / der brennenden Vulcanen oder Schwefelbergen / der Siedenden vnd anderer heilsamen Quellen / wie auch der Thier / Vögel / Fisch vnd Gewürm in denselben / sampt andern wunderbaren Sreaturen vnd Miraculn der Natur / in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyes. Dess-gleichen gründlicher Bericht von der innwohner Beschaffenheit / Sitten / Qualitäten / Policey und Götzendienst / Leben vnd Wesen / barbarischer Unwissenheit vnd vnerhörter Grausankeit dess meisten Theils dieser wilden Leute / sampt Unterscheyd der Nationen / Sprachen vnd Gebräuchen. Item, historische vnd aussführliche Relation 38. fürnembster Schiffarten vnterschiedlicher Völcker in West-Indien / von der ersten Entdeckung durch Christophorum Columbum / in 150. Jahren / vollbracht / [Johann Ludwig Gottfried].
  • Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende Warhafftige vnd vollkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften / Insulen / Königreichen vnd Provintzien / Seecusten / fliessenden vnd stehenden Wassern / Port vnd Anländungen / Gebürgen / Thälern / Stätt / Flecken vnd Wohnplätzen / zusampt der Natur vnd Eygenschafft dess Erdrichs / der Lufft / der Mineren vnd Metallen / der brennenden Vulcanen oder Schwefelbergen / der Siedenden vnd anderer heilsamen Quellen / wie auch der Thier / Vögel / Fisch vnd Gewürm in denselben / sampt andern wunderbaren Sreaturen vnd Miraculn der Natur / in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyes. Dess-gleichen gründlicher Bericht von der innwohner Beschaffenheit / Sitten / Qualitäten / Policey und Götzendienst / Leben vnd Wesen / barbarischer Unwissenheit vnd vnerhörter Grausankeit dess meisten Theils dieser wilden Leute / sampt Unterscheyd der Nationen / Sprachen vnd Gebräuchen. Item, historische vnd aussführliche Relation 38. fürnembster Schiffarten vnterschiedlicher Völcker in West-Indien / von der ersten Entdeckung durch Christophorum Columbum / in 150. Jahren / vollbracht / [Johann Ludwig Gottfried].
  • Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende Warhafftige vnd vollkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften / Insulen / Königreichen vnd Provintzien / Seecusten / fliessenden vnd stehenden Wassern / Port vnd Anländungen / Gebürgen / Thälern / Stätt / Flecken vnd Wohnplätzen / zusampt der Natur vnd Eygenschafft dess Erdrichs / der Lufft / der Mineren vnd Metallen / der brennenden Vulcanen oder Schwefelbergen / der Siedenden vnd anderer heilsamen Quellen / wie auch der Thier / Vögel / Fisch vnd Gewürm in denselben / sampt andern wunderbaren Sreaturen vnd Miraculn der Natur / in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyes. Dess-gleichen gründlicher Bericht von der innwohner Beschaffenheit / Sitten / Qualitäten / Policey und Götzendienst / Leben vnd Wesen / barbarischer Unwissenheit vnd vnerhörter Grausankeit dess meisten Theils dieser wilden Leute / sampt Unterscheyd der Nationen / Sprachen vnd Gebräuchen. Item, historische vnd aussführliche Relation 38. fürnembster Schiffarten vnterschiedlicher Völcker in West-Indien / von der ersten Entdeckung durch Christophorum Columbum / in 150. Jahren / vollbracht / [Johann Ludwig Gottfried].
  • Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du roi en 1761. Contenant les mœurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance; la description géographique & le nivellement de la route de Paris à Tobolsk ... / par m. l'abbé Chappe d'Auteroche.
  • Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du roi en 1761. Contenant les mœurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance; la description géographique & le nivellement de la route de Paris à Tobolsk ... / par m. l'abbé Chappe d'Auteroche.
  • Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du roi en 1761. Contenant les mœurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance; la description géographique & le nivellement de la route de Paris à Tobolsk ... / par m. l'abbé Chappe d'Auteroche.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • [A voyage round the world, performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 / by Boussole and Astrolabe, under the command of J.F.G. de La Pérouse. Published by order of the National assembly under the superintendence of L.A. Milet-Mureau.] Charts and plates to La Pérouse's voyage. Tr. from the French.
  • A view from the universe : St. Peter's at Rome : in which the various empires, kingdoms, republics, states, principal islands, colonies, and discoveries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, alphabetically arranged, are shown at one glance, and included in a single line, with the situation, extent, chief cities, their population, distances in British miles from London ...