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A new systeme of geography : designed in a most plain and easie method, for the better understanding of that science : accommodated with new maps, of all the empires, kingdoms, principalities, dukedoms, provinces and countries in the whole world : with geographical tables, explaining the divisions in each map

Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698 · 1694 · Wapping : J. Seller · 66 pictures

A 1694 geography textbook by John Seller, published in Wapping, meant to teach the subject plainly to readers through a set of new maps of the world's empires, kingdoms and provinces with explanatory tables. The pictures are hand-coloured copper-engraved maps with fine lettering, outlines in pink, yellow and green, and sea areas shown with wavy rule lines, offering a designer examples of early modern cartographic layout and decorative compass and border detailing.

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