Extent: 1 ms. atlas ([10] leaves) : 5 hand col. maps, vellum ; 37 cm.
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Authorship statement from chart of northwestern Africa. Vellum charts (pen-and-ink and paint: red, green, gold, blue, yellow) backed with paper and mounted with paper stubs. Verso of last chart includes annotation tracing previous ownership, including 1595 inscription signed "W.L. Burghly [?]" (i.e. William Cecil, Lord Burghley?) noting that he was given the atlas by Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham and chief English admiral during the Spanish Armada of 1588; inscription, apparently by Pierre Esprit Radisson, French explorer and fur trader in North America... Owned by George Wilbraham (bookplate, 19th cent.?) Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).
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