Browse Items (36 total)

  • Collection: McMaster University Library's Historical Maps of Canada

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Printed map. "Published under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." "Hudson Bay Comps. M.S.S. Parry, Franklin, Beechey, Graab &c." "Published Decr. 1st. 1834...." "Engraved by J. & C. Walker". Visual scale…

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2 visual scales; one has "British statute miles 69 1/2 to a degree". "Engd. by W. Dassauville Edinb." Described in Catalogue of the National Map Collection, Public Archives of Canada, V1/1100 - [1821], volume 10, p. 701: "The map was published by…

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Printed map. First state. "L. Thevenard fil. sculp." Three visual scales. Includes inset entitled: "Suplément pour les possessions françoises et angloises au sud de la Louisiane. Gravé par Chambon." Inverted in lower left margin, "Livre XIII." …

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Printed map. "Dressée sur plusieurs observations et sur un grand nombre de relations imprimées ou manuscrites par Guillaume Del'Isle, geographe de l'Academie royale des sciences, a
Amsterdam chez Jean Cóvens et Corneille Mortier geographes avec…

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Printed map. "Par le Sieur S". Cartographer uncertain, probably Nicolas Sanson. Visual scales. Title in upper right corner, "Partie orientale de l Amerique Angloise". Includes inset: [Boston Harbor area]. Donated by Dr. Karl Freeman, Hamilton,…

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Printed map. Third edition. Published originally in Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi, vol. 3, 1606. Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada 1540-1703, vol. 1, entry 15b, p. 18: "The final edition of the Viaggi appeared in 1606, and the…

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Printed map. Third edition. Published originally in Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi, vol. 3, 1606. Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada 1540-1703, vol. 1, entry 17b, p. 18: "In this final [third] edition the page numbers change to…

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Printed map. "Suiuant les memoires de P. Du Val, géographe du Roy". Visual scale. Second state. Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, Vol. 1, p. 74. Includes "Explication des lettres et chifres de la carte". Donated by Dr. John…

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Printed map. "Par N. Sanson d'Abbeville geographe ordinaire du Roy." "I. Somer, sculpsit". Donated by Dr. John Morse, Hamilton, September 1997.

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Printed map. "To the members of the United Services of the British Empire, whose daring achievements this plan is designed to commemorate & honor & to whom it is respectfully dedicated, by their obedient servant, Alfred Hawkins." In lower, right…
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