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1. An Action between English Ships and Barbary Corsairs

An Action between English Ships and Barbary Corsairs

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Date:: ca. 1695
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 5/8 x 19 3/8 inches (32.1 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Cleopatra

Creator:: Benedetto Gennari, 1633–1715, Italian, active in Britain (1674–89)
Date:: between 1674 and 1675
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 x 41 1/2 inches (124.5 x 105.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. 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

4. Africa [cartographic material].

Africa [cartographic material].

Creator:: Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651-1726
Date:: [ca. 1686?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand colored ; 57 x 94 cm, on sheet 62 x 102 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. [India Orientalis].

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Date:: 1597[-1628]
Physical Description:: 13 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Illustriorum Hispaniae urbium tabulae : cum appendice celebriorum alibi aut olim aut nunc parentium Hispanis, aut eorum civitatum commerciis florentium.

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Creator:: Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
Date:: [1657]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (252 pages in various pagings, [3] leaves of plates (2 folded)) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 51 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Mundus imperiorum, siue de mundi imperiis libri quatuor : das ist, Beschreibung aller Keyserthumb vnd Königreich, auch aller fürnembsten Fürstenthumb vnd Herzschafften der ganssen Welt, sampt volkomlicher Erzehlung ihrer Macht, Reichthumb, vnd Vermögens, in 4. Theil abgetheiler ... / Auss Italianischer Sprach ins Teutsch gebracht, durch Johann von Brüssel, die ander Edition sehr gemehret vnd gebessert.

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Creator:: Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617
Date:: im Iahr MDCII [1602]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([120] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta / Joannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.

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Creator:: Matal, Jean, 1520-1597
Date:: anno MDC [1600]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([36] pages) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts