8vo. Vol. III only. The edition of 1646 was published in 2 parts in 3 volumes.
Not in Quérard.
Not in Brunet.
Not in Graesse.
François de Grenaille, Sieur de Chateaunières, 1616-1680, French man of letters, published the first edition of this work in 1643.
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Geographie de Robbe.
2. vols.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 117, no, 5, as above.
ROBBE,
Jacques.
Methode pour apprendre facilement la Geographie, dediée a Monseigneur le Duc du Mayne.
Cinquiéme edition. Reveuë & augmentée de plusieurs choses considerables, & d’une Table des Matieres. Par M. Robbe.
A
Paris: Chez
Antoine Dezallier,
m. dcciii.
Avec Privilege du Roi. [1703.]
G120 .R64
2 vol. 12mo. 318 and 294 leaves, the last a blank, engraved title by N. Guérard in Vol. I, half title in each volume, at the end of the second volume is the
Abregé de la Navigation with continuous signatures, separate pagination, and a half-title, engraved folded and full page maps and plates, a few woodcut
illustrations; the chapters relating to
l’Amérique are contained in Vol. II, Livre cinquiéme (page 282).
Quérard VIII, 67.
Not in Sabin.
Jacques Robbe, 1643-1721, French geographer and man of letters was “ingénieur et géographe du roi.” The early Library of Congress catalogues
credit Jefferson with a 1704 edition of this work, apparently in error. The fifth edition was published in 1703 as above,
and the sixth in 1714. The first edition appeared in 1678.
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Heylin’s Cosmography.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 117, no. 263, as above.
HEYLYN,
Peter.
Cosmography in four Books. Containing the Chorography and History of the whole World: and All the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces,
Seas, and the Isles thereof. By Peter Heylyn, D. D. Improv’d with an Historical Continuation to the present Times, by Edmund Bohun, Esq; with a large and more accurate Index, than was in any of the former editions, of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries,
Inhabitants, Peoples, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Islands, Forts, Bays, Capes, Forests, &c. of any Remarque in the whole
World: revised and cleared from a multitude of Mistakes, which had crept into former Impressions. And five new-engrav’d Maps,
according to the best and most exact Projection . . .
London: printed for
Edw. Brewster,
Ric. Chiswell,
Benj. Tooke,
Tho. Hodgkin, and
Tho. Bennet,
mdcciii.
[1703.]
G114 .H62 1703
Folio. 496 leaves, engraved frontispiece-title in compartments, printed title in red and black, separate titles for each book,
double-page engraved map of the world and of each of the four continents. The fourth book contains the Chorography and History
of America, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas and Islands of it.
Lowndes II, 1059.
Sabin 31655.
Peter Heylyn, 1600-1662, English theologian and historian, published the first edition of this work (with a different title) in Oxford,
1622.
Edmund Bohun was for a time a merchant in Carolina (where his father had been Chief Justice), and collected plants for Hans Sloane and
others. He later returned to England.
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