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Documenti facili con alcune Annotazioni necessarie a chi desidera introdursi nell'esercizio dilettevole della Geografia; con il Modo di fabbricare la Palla materiale rappresentante il Globo Terracqueo, Di dividerla ne suoi Circoli, Di segnarvi i Nomi delle Città, Luoghi e Provincie, con ogni giusta misura, ed intiera perfezione / F. P. Pompeia Civena, Ordin. Min. S. Francisci Provinciæ S...
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Civena, Pompeia
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Maps--Italy--17th century
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Drawings--Italy--17th century
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Geography--Handbooks, manuals, etc
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British Isles--Maps--Early works to 1800
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1600.
17. century
1600
1600
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Extent: 1 v. (182 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
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ill.
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Written in an unidentified hand, in Italy.
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Full-page title-page drawing in ink showing a cosmographer, explaining geographical problems to a lady (or a personification?) on a porch with a marine view; two winged putti display title on drapery.
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With two double-page maps in ink, representing the British Isles ("Anglia et Hibernia"; between pp. 88-89), the other of the two hemispheres ("Orbis descriptio tota"; between pp. 90-91); and of a globe of the earth (p. 68).
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Includes instructions for a mariner's compass (pp. 148-152).
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Bound in half russia.
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Gift of David P. Wheatland, 1986.
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Bookplate of E. Silvestri, Milan, by 1908.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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