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1. Africa : being accurate description of the regions of AEgypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billendulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, AEthiopia, and the Abyssines : with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages : their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure, with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents / collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations ; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq. master of His Majesties revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.

Africa : being accurate description of the regions of AEgypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billendulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, AEthiopia, and the Abyssines : with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages : their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure, with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents / collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations ; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq. master of His Majesties revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Date:: MDC LXX [1670]
Physical Description:: [18], 38, [2], 39-146, [2], 147-281, [3], 283-304, [2], 305-314, [2], 315-488, [2], 489-632, [2], 633-658, [2], 659-767, [1] pages, [98] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; his shipwrecks; his marrying an Indian wife; his narrow escape from the island of Dominico, &c. : intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; with his shipwreck in the Baltick, being the only man that escap'd; his being taken by the Indians of Virginia, &c. / written by himself, now alive.

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Creator:: Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766
Date:: 1720
Physical Description:: [3], page viii, 72, 136, 179, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Opera diletteuole da intendere, nella qual si contiene doi itinerarij in Tartaria : per alcuni frati dell'Ordine Minore, è di S. Dominico, mandati da Papa Innocentio IIII, nella detta prouincia de Scithia per ambasciatori, non più uulgarizata.

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Creator:: Giovanni, da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari, -1252
Date:: Ne l'anno del Signore, MDXXXVII Adi 17 Ottobrio [1537]
Physical Description:: [112] pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts