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        "Text on verso titled The generall description of the world; p. 1-2; printer's signature A.",
        "Includes vignettes of the 4 elements as allegorical figures, portraits of 4 circumnavigators, charts of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres, a geocentric diagram of The heavens and elements, and illustrations of A figure of the sphere, The eclipse of the sunne, and The eclipse of the moon.",
        "Shows California as an island.",
        "In the author's A prospect of the most famous parts of the world (London, 1662).",
        "Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor."
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