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A geographical description of the world : on 32 cards ; embellished with the dresses of the various

Published / Created:
[1815?]
Call Number:
PLAYING CARDS GEN 397
Image Count:
35
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 133: Title label on case shaved with place of publication wanting. Formerly owned by Julia Parker Wightman. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from slipcase., and Date inferred from reference to the re-establishment of a "legitimate monarchy" in France.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America
Subject (Topic):
Playing Cards, Manners and customs, Clothing and dress, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A geographical description of the world : on 32 cards ; embellished with the dresses of the various nations

2.
Grand jeu de la géographie avec costumes coloriées.

Published / Created:
[1830?]
Call Number:
PLAYING CARDS GEN 132
Image Count:
28
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 132: Title card pasted to sleeve. Formerly owned by Julia Parker Wightman. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. and Title card and 25 numbered cards depicting inhabitants of various countries.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grand jeu de la géographie avec costumes coloriées.

3.
La historia general delas Indias, con todos los descubrimientos, y cosas notables que han acaescido

Creator:
López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564
Published / Created:
año. M.D.LIIII.
Call Number:
Pequot G59
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN Pequot G59: Signatures: A-B8 A-Nn8 (Nn8 [blank?] wanting)., Errors in numbering: leaves 5, 17, 19, 21, 23, 24, 41-48 numbered, respectively, 6, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 28-35., "Impresso en Aquers por Iuan Lacio M.D.L.IIII" (at end of 16th prelim. leaf)., Printer's mark on t.p., The "traca delas Indias" entitled "Brevis exactaq. totius Novi orbis eiusq. insula "un descriptio recens a Ioan. Bellero edita" is present in the present copy. According to Sabin "only found in the Bellero editions and also in his edition of Levinus Appollonius of 1565 and 1567"; it is, however, found also in copies with imprint of Iuan Steelsio--cf. Cat. of Huth lib., & Medina, Bibl. hisp.-amer., Reprint of the first part of the author's Historia general de las Indias, Saragossa, 1553., and Another issue has the imprint: En Anuers, Iuan Bellero, 1554.
Publisher:
En casa de Iuan Steelsio
Subject (Geographic):
America, Latin America, and Peru
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La historia general delas Indias, con todos los descubrimientos, y cosas notables que han acaescido enellas, dende que se ganaren hasta agora, escrita por Francisco Lopez de Gomara, clerigo : Anadiose de nueuo la descripcion y traca delas Indias, con vna tabla alphabetica delas prouincias, islas, puereos [!] ciudades, y nombres de onquistadores y varones principales que alla han passado..

4.
The comet 1757 [graphic].

Published / Created:
Mar.1 [1757]
Call Number:
757.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text etched at top of image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For the appearance of comet, see Gentlemen's magazine, Sept. 1757, p. 392., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below., and Imprint partially burnished from plate.
Publisher:
D.P. according to act [...]
Subject (Geographic):
Halley's comet., Minorca (Spain), Corsica (France), Flanders., and America.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The comet 1757 [graphic].

5.
[Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].

Published / Created:
[early 20th century]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1486 (Oversize)
Container / Volume:
Box (Oversize)
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507). and Evidence of the forgery includes the superimposition of the gores over glue already on the paper surface, which suggests use of a sheet removed from a period volume, as well as details that replicate gores from an authentic woodcut print formerly owned by Austrian cartographer Franz Hauslab and acquired by the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota in 1954
Description:
A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with little distortion., Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1519) was a German cartographer. His wall map Universalis Cosmographia (1507) and printed globes contemporarily derived from it were the first published globular maps of the Western Hemisphere and the first maps on which the name America appears in honor of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)., In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., and Publication place and date of creation supplied by the cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Name):
Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
Subject (Topic):
Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].