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Excerpt from Catalogue of Printed Books and of Manuscripts Belonging to Henry Ward Poole, Now Residing in the City of Mexico: Comprising Many Rare and Curious Books, in Various Departments of Literature, and in About Seventy Languages, Early Printed Books, From 1469 to 1473, Ancient Manuscripts, the Original Ms. Maps of Captain Cook and His Officers America. Curious. Large folio, London, 1719 DE lisle, G. Atlas Nouveau. Contenant les Cartes et des Empire du Monde. Fine copy of this elaborate work, 8 vols, large folio, half calf. J. Covens, Amsterdam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.