America.- Carpenter (Nathanael) Geography Delineated, 2
America.- Carpenter (Nathanael) Geography Delineated, 2 parts in 1, first edition, complete with all blank leaves, 4 folding letterpress tables, woodcut illustrations, front endpapers renewed, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rubbed and repaired, upper joint cracking, [STC 4676; Sabin 10999; Wellcome I, 1319; Madan 554], 4to, Oxford, Printed by John Lichfield and William Turner..., for Henry Cripps, 1625.
⁂ Superb copy of the first important treatise on theoretical geography written by an Englishman. Seldom found complete with all the folding tables and the leaf of verses "To my book" and the errata leaf. Pages 115-131 in the second part relate to America with discussion on the possibility of a north-west passage, the voyages and explorations of Columbus, Magellan, Drake, Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, Hudson etc and passages on Hudson's Bay and Newfoundland. Carpenter also mentions that, according to a Spanish chart taken by Hollanders, California has been discovered to be an island rather than part of the continent although the evidence "seems rather to cherish hope, than persuade consent."
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America.- Carpenter (Nathanael) Geography Delineated, 2 parts in 1, first edition, complete with all blank leaves, 4 folding letterpress tables, woodcut illustrations, front endpapers renewed, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rubbed and repaired, upper joint cracking, [STC 4676; Sabin 10999; Wellcome I, 1319; Madan 554], 4to, Oxford, Printed by John Lichfield and William Turner..., for Henry Cripps, 1625.
⁂ Superb copy of the first important treatise on theoretical geography written by an Englishman. Seldom found complete with all the folding tables and the leaf of verses "To my book" and the errata leaf. Pages 115-131 in the second part relate to America with discussion on the possibility of a north-west passage, the voyages and explorations of Columbus, Magellan, Drake, Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, Hudson etc and passages on Hudson's Bay and Newfoundland. Carpenter also mentions that, according to a Spanish chart taken by Hollanders, California has been discovered to be an island rather than part of the continent although the evidence "seems rather to cherish hope, than persuade consent."
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