17 results filtered with: Geography - Early works to 1800
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The universal traveller; or, a compleat description of the several nations of the world ... Brought down to the present time / And illustrated with a great variety of maps and cuts. By Mr. Salmon.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: 1752-1753
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Modern history or, the present state of all nations. Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, and buildings, manners, laws and customs ... plants, animals, and minerals / by Mr. Salmon ; illustrated with cuts and maps ... by Herman Moll.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: 1744-1746
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Mikrókosmos. A little description of the great world / By Peter Heylyn.
Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.Date: [1629]- Books
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A description of the whole world : with some general rules touching the use of the globe, wherein is contained the situation of several countries. Their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used among them. Very delightful to be read in so small a volume. / By Robert Fage, Esq.
Fage, RobertDate: 1658- Books
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Cosmography or, a description of the whole world : represented (by a more exact and certain discovery) in the excellencies of its scituation, commodities, inhabitants, and history: of their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used amongst them. Enlarged with very many and rare additions. Very delightful to be read in so small a volum. By Robert Fage Esquire.
Fage, RobertDate: 1667
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L'usage des globes céleste et terrestre, et des spheres suivant les differens systemes du monde / Précédé d'un traité de cosmographie. ... Accompagné des figures nécessaires. ... Par le Sieur Bion.
Bion, N. (Nicolas), 1652-1733.Date: 1728- Books
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A tutor to astronomy and geography, or, An easie and speedy way to understand the use of both the globes, celestial and terrestrial : laid down in so plain a manner that a mean capacity may at the first reading understand it and with a little practise, grow expert in those divine sciences / translated from the first part of Guliulmus Blaeu, Institutio Astronomica ; published by J. Moxom.
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638Date: 1654- Books
Letters of a traveller, on the various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, containing sketches of their present state, government, religion, manners, and customs with some original pieces of poetry / [Alexander Thomson].
Thomson, Alexander, active 1767-1801?Date: 1798- Books
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The artist's vade mecum: or The most useful arts and sciences improv'd and made easie : Containing 1. The curious art of dialing, in drawing and placing all sorts of sun-dials by a true or more exact rule than hitherto found out. 2. Geometry applied to the most profitable arts of surveying, measuring timber, or any solid bodies; gauging casks, brewers tuns, wine-vessels, &c. 3. Finding the length and circumference answering any arch, in degrees and decimal parts. 4. The area or segments of a circle, whose whole area is unity, to the ten thousandth of the diameter; with many other useful tables, ready stated. 5. A compleat body of astronomy, or a view of the caelestial globe; places of the sun, moon, and fixed stars, the names of the most noted stars, in what signs they are posited; their longitude and latitude, &c. The doctrine of the primum mobile, and the account of time rectified and freed from error; compared with the Julian and Gregorian calenders. : To which is added, A compleat body of geography; describing all the empires, kingdoms, and states in the known parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The like never before made publick; illustrated with 14 copper-plates. / By Dr. Colton.
Colton, H., Dr.Date: 1698- Books
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Cosmography: or, A description of the whole world : represented (by a more exact and certain discovery) in the excellencies of its scituation, commodities, inhabitants, and history: of their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used amongst them. Enlarged with very many and rare additions. Very delightful to be read in so small a volum. By Robert Fage Esquire.
Fage, RobertDate: 1666- Books
Geography delineated forth in two bookes. Containing the sphaericall and topicall parts thereof / By Nathanael Carpenter.
Carpenter, Nathanael.Date: 1625
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Introductio in universam geographiam tam veterem quam novam / tabulis geographicis XLVI ac notis olim ornata a Johanne Bunone, jam vero locupletata additamentis & annotationibus Joh. Frid. Hekelii & Joh. Reiskii. Cum privilegio ordinum Holl. & Westfrisiae. 1697. Quibus in hac editione Londinensi accedunt additamenta plurima ad historiam & geographiam, cum antiquam, tum hodiernam spectantia, ex scriptoribus optimae notae, Cellario praesertim & Luytsio, excerpta & in marginem relata.
Clüver, Philipp, 1580-1622.Date: 1711- Books
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Guilielmi Blaeu Institutio astronomica de usu globorum & sphærarum cælestium ac terrestrium : duabus partibus adornata. Una, secundum hypothesin Ptolemæi, per terram quiescentem. Altera, juxta mentem N. Copernici per terram mobilem. Latinè reddita à M. Hortensio, in ill. Amsterdamensium schola, matheseos profe[ss]ore.
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638Date: Anno Dom. 1663- Books
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Tyrocinia mathematica, sive, Juniorum ad matheses addicendas introductio in quatuor tractatus : videlicet arithmeticum, sphæricum, geographicum & echometricum divisa.
Sinclair, George, -1696Date: 1661
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Lettres physiques et morales sur l'histoire de la terre et de l'homme : adressées à la Reine de la Grande Bretagne / par J.A. de Luc.
Luc, J. A. de (Jean André), 1727-1817.Date: 1779-1780- Books
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The schoole of skil : containing two bookes: the first, of the sphere, of heauen, of the starres, of their orbes, and of the earth, &c. The second, of the sphericall elements, of the celestiall circles, and of their vses, &c. Orderly set forth according to art, with apt figures and proportions in their proper places, by Tho. Hill.
Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528-Date: 1599- Books
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Cosmographia, or, A view of the terrestrial and cœlestial globes : in a brief explanation of the principles of plain and solid geometry applied to surveying and gauging of cask : the doctrine of primum mobile : with an account of the Juilan & Gregorian calendars, and the computation of the places of the sun, moon, and fixed stars ... : to which is added an introduction unto geography / by John Newton.
Newton, John, 1622-1678Date: 1679