Cosmography in four books : containing the chorography and historie of the whole world, and all the...
Cosmography in four books : containing the chorography and historie of the whole world, and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas, and isles thereof / by Peter Heylyn ; with an accurate and an approved index of all the kingdoms, provinces, countries, inhabitants, people, cities, mountains, rivers, seas, islands, forts, bays, capes, forests, &c. of any remarque in the whole world, much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last impression, revised and corrected by the author himself immediately before his death.
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Publisher
London : Printed for P.C.T. Passenger..., B. Tooke..., and T. Sawbridge..., 1682.
Date
1682.
Call Numbers
MRB/F23
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical content
[14], 303, [3], 225, [3], 230, [2], 562 [i.e. 162], [40] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 36 cm.
Contents
Bk. 1. Of Italy, the Alpine provinces, France, Spain and Britain, with the isles thereof -- Bk 2. Of Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Swethland, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Sclavonia, Dacia and Greece, with the isles thereof -- Bk 3. Of the lesser and greater Asia, and all the principal kingdoms, provinces,...
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Publisher
London : Printed for P.C.T. Passenger..., B. Tooke..., and T. Sawbridge..., 1682.
Edition
[The 6th edition]
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1682.
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Cosmography in four books : containing the chorography and historie of the whole world, and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas, and isles thereof / by Peter Heylyn ; with an accurate and an approved index of all the kingdoms, provinces, countries, inhabitants, people, cities, mountains, rivers, seas, islands, forts, bays, capes, forests, &...
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Cosmographie in foure books.
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Added engraved t.p. : Cosmographie in foure books contayning the chorographie & historie of the whole world and the principall kingdomes provinces seas and isles thereof / by Peter Heylyn... - The 6th ed. corr. & enlarged by the author. - London : Printed for T. Passenger, B. Tooke & T. Sanbridge [sic], 1682.
"Sixth edition, complete with the important supplementary chapter, which discusses real and imaginary Australian voyages, did not appear in the earliest editions, and is not present in all copies of the later editions ... An eight page work, it is entitled 'An appendix of the former work, endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the world,...
Citation / References Note
Wing, H1696.
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MRB/F23
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74VKMr0qvBdl
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991021253219702626
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