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Printed map. "Dressée par Lapie, Ing. Géographe". 3 visual scales [650 mm = 25 Spanish leagues]
Insets: CARTE PARTICULIERE / des Routes de Postes de Madrid aux Châteaux Royaux. Shows postal routes (by stage-coach [voitures], by horse, by foot [non…

Plate 284 - Ever Blowing Rose. Pub. by W. Curtis, St. Geo. Crescent. Dec. 1, 1794.

Plate XXV

The last voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, Knt. R. N. to the Arctic regions, for the discovery of a North West Passage, performed in the years 1829-30-31- 32 and 33 : to which is prefixed an abridgement of the former voyages of Captns. Ross, Parry, &…

The last voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, Knt. R. N. to the Arctic regions, for the discovery of a North West Passage, performed in the years 1829-30-31- 32 and 33 : to which is prefixed an abridgement of the former voyages of Captns. Ross, Parry, &…

Printed map. "Published according to act of Parliament Janry. 15 1760 by Thos. Jefferys at Charing Cross." The north arrow is oriented to the upper right. Visual scale in British yards. Shows the "St. Laurence or the Great River called by the…

Printed map. Probably originally published in Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. "Americae" sheet was number 5 in the 1579 edition and later according to Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, entry Ort 15A, p. 44-45, but exact edition is uncertain. …

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…

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…

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