RARE MAPS HELD IN RESEARCH COLLECTIONS
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GEOGRAPHIC INDEX
World
- Typvs Vniversalis Terrae... (Apian,
1524)
- Typvs Vniversalis (Munster, 1540)
- Descrittione Di Tvttol Mondo Secondo...
(Magini, 1596?)
- A Map of all the Earth And how after
the Flood it was Divided... (Moxon, 1671?)
- Geography. Or Description of the Earth...
(Dunn, 1778?)
- Cary's New Terrestrial Globe... (Cary,
1806)
- Eratosthenis Systema Geographicvm...
(Gosselin, [1813])
- Tableau des régions circumpolaires ou
carte sphéroïdale des deux pôles... (Garnier, 1860)
- The World in Hemispheres... [Blackie
& Son, 1883?]
- The World on Mercators Projection...
[Blackie & Son, 1883?]
- Scarborough's New Map of the World...
(Scarborough Co. of Canada, [1919])
Western Hemisphere
Eastern Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
North Pole
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Polynesia
Americas (North and South America)
- Americae Sive Novi Orbis... (Ortelius,
1579)
- America... (Hondius, 1631)
- America noviter delineata (Janssonius,
1647)
- Pas Caart van Brazil en Nieu-Nederland...
(Doncker, [1660?])
- Terra Nova, ac Maris Tractus... (Wit,
1675)
- Planisfero del Mondo Nuovo... (Coronelli,
1688)
- A New Map of America... [Senex, circa
1723?]
- America (Moll, 1732?)
- Nieuwe Kaart van America... [Tirion,
circa 1744?]
- Karte derer Englischen Unternehmungen zur
See... / Carte des Entrep. Angloises par Mer... (Heydin, 1759)
- Nieuwe Kaart Van het Westelykste Deel
der Weereld... (Tirion, 1769)
- L'Amerique divisee par Grands Etats
(Janvier, 1783)
- Western Hemisphere [Tallis, 1850?]
South America
South America
- Cape Providence with the Bay and Anchoring
Places...
- Cape Providence with the Bay and Anchoring
Places...
- Cape Providence with the Bay and Anchoring
Places...
- Cordes Bay and Harbour
- Cordes Bay and Harbour
- Cordes Bay and Harbour
- From York Bay to Three Island Bay and
Harbour
- From York Bay to Three Island Bay and
Harbour
- From York Bay to Three Island Bay and
Harbour
- Hec terracum adiacentib' insulis innenca
est... (Waldseemüller, [1522])
- Americae Sive Novi Orbis... (Ortelius,
1579)
- Porto Desire (Ortelius, 1584?)
- Brasillia et Pervvia... (Jode, 1593)
- Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis
partis Americae... (Linschoten, 1596)
- Descripcion de las Yndias... (Tordesillas,
1601)
- America Meridionalis (Hondius, 1619)
- Appendix XI. Partis Americae... (Bry,
1620)
- Carta prima Generale d'Affrica...
(Dudley, 1646)
- America noviter delineata (Janssonius,
1647)
- Americae pars Meridionalis (Janssonius,
1647)
- Pas Caart van Brazil en Nieu-Nederland...
(Doncker, [1660?])
- A New Mapp of Magellan Straights...
(Seller and Thornton, 1675)
- Terra Nova, ac Maris Tractus... (Wit,
1675)
- [America Meridionale] (Coronelli,
[1688])
- Religionis Catholicae Avstrali Americae...
(Scherer, [1703?])
- Nouvelle Carte de Geographie de la Partie
Meridionale... (Chatelain, [1719?])
- A Map of Chili... (Moll, 1732?)
- Carte de la Partie de l'Ocean...
(Buache, 1737)
- Amerique Méridionale, Dressée, sur les
Mémoirs... (Vaugondy, 1750)
- Carte du Chili... (Bonne, 1780?)
- South America (Northern Sheet) (Johnston,
1861?)
Bolivia
Brazil
- Brasil Nvova Tavola (Ruscelli, 1561)
- [Brasil] (Ramusio, 1565)
- Plata Americae Provincia (Wytfliet,
1596)
- Gviana fiue Amazonvm Regio (Blaeu,
1630)
- Accuratissima Brasiliae Tabula (Janssonius,
1636?)
- Novus Brasiliae Typvs (Blaeu, 1640)
- Brasilia Generis nobilitate, armorúm
et litterarum... (Blaeu, 1642)
- Nova et Accurata Brasiliae... (Janssonius,
1657)
- Paskaert van Brasilia... (Doncker,
1660)
- Praefecturae Paranambucae Pars Meridionalis
(Blaeu, 1662)
- Paskaart van Brasil... (Goos, 1666)
- Littora Brasiliae (Wit, 1675)
- Corso del Fiume dell Amazoni... (Coronelli,
[1691])
- Brasil, Divided into its Captainships
(Moll, 1709)
- Praefecturae Paranambucae Pars Meridionalis
(Covens & Mortier, [1720?])
- Carte de la Partie de l'Ocean...
(Buache, 1737)
- Littora Brasiliae (Ottens, 1745)
- Plan de l'Isle et du Port de Ste. Catherine...
(Buache and Dezauche, 1777)
- Carte de la Partie Meridionale du Bresil...
(Bonne, 1783)
- Carte de la Partie Septentrionale du
Bresil (Bonne, 1783)
- Kaart van het Noordlyk gedeelte van Bresil...
(Bachiene, 1785)
- Kaart van het Zuidelyk gedeelte van Bresil...
(Bachiene, 1785)
- Brazil (Dower, 1831)
Chile
Peru
Tierra del Fuego (South America)
- Appendix XI. Partis Americae... (Bry,
1620)
- Exquisita & Magno Aliquot Mensium Periculo
Iustrata et Iam Retecta Freti Magellanici Facies... [Mercator, 1595,
1623?]
- Tabula Magellanica, qua Tierrae del Fuego...
(Janssonius, 1647?)
- Tabula Magellanica, qua Tierrae del Fuego...
(Janssonius, 1652?)
- A New Mapp of Magellan Straights...
(Seller and Thornton, 1675)
- A Plan of Success Bay... (Bowen and
Gibson, 1769)
- A Plan of Success Bay... (Bowen and
Gibson, 1769)
- Canal de Noel, sur la côte... (Bénar,
1774?)
- A Chart of the Straits of Magellan
(Bowen, [1777?])
- Kaart van de Good Success Baai...
(Klauber, 1794)
Venezuela
Caribbean and Central America
- Mexicvm In hac forma ii lucem... (Nicolosi,
1671)
- A Draft of the Golden & Adjacent Islands...
/ A New Map of ye Isthmus of Darien... (Hacke, [1710])
- A New Map of the English Empire in the Ocean
of America or West Indies (Senex, date unknown)
- A Map of the British Empire in America...
(Popple, 1733?)
- An Accurate Map of the West Indies...
(Bowen, [1763?])
- Jamaica from the Latest Surveys... (Jefferys,
1794)
- Guadaloupe / Mariecalante & / Antigua
[Thomson, 1814]
- Jamaica [Thomson, 1814]
- Martinico / Dominica [Thomson, 1814]
- St. Christophers / St. Lucia / Nevis
[Thomson, 1814]
- St. Vincent / Barbadoes [Thomson, 1814]
- Porto Rico and Virgin Islands / Haiti, Hispaniola
or St. Domingo (Thomson, 1815)
- Jamaica (Thomson, [1827?])
- Bay and Harbour of Port au Prince...
(Owen, 1831)
Europe
Most of the European maps in McMaster's collection have not yet been described.
Europe
Belgium
- Nobilis Hannoniae Comitatus Descrip.
(Ortelius, 1579)
- Plan de la Ville de Bruges (Perelle,
circa 1670)
- Plan de la Ville de Courtray (Perelle,
circa 1670)
- Plan de la Ville de Dixmude (Perelle,
circa 1670)
- Plan de la Ville de Menin (Perelle,
circa 1670)
- Plan de la Ville de Mons (Perelle, circa
1670)
- Plan de la Ville d'Oudenarde (Perelle,
circa 1670)
- Plan de la Ville d'Ypres (Perelle, circa
1670)
- Plan de la Ville et Chasteau de Limbourg
(Perelle, circa 1670)
- Plan de la Ville et Citadelle de Gand
(Perelle, circa 1670)
- [Atlas des Pays Bas] (Fricx, 1745)
- Plan de la Bataille de Belle Alliance...
(Jouvenel, circa 1815)
- Plan de Menin (cartographer unknown,
17__?)
Black Sea
Bulgaria
Canary Islands
Czechoslovakia
France
- Plan de la Ville et Citadelle de Tournay
(Perelle, circa 1670)
- Plan de la Ville des Sirck (Perelle,
circa 1670)
- To his Highnes William Duke of Glocester
& This New Map of France... (Morden, 1674?)
- Lotharingiæ et Utriusque Alsatiæ...
(Danckerts, 1696)
- Alsatia Superior et Inferior... (Michal,
1735)
- [Atlas des Pays Bas] (Fricx, 1745)
- Carte des Postes de France... (Jaillot,
1766)
- A New Map of France, in which the Post Stages
are Exactly Express'd... (Rocque, 1766)
- La France par Generalities... (Bonne,
[1780?])
- Carte des Postes de France pour l'Année
1784 (Desnos, 1783)
- The Kingdom of France... (Cartographer
unknown, 1796)
- Carte Générale de la France... (Picquet,
[1809])
- Carte Générale de la France... (Picquet,
[1809])
Cherburg (France)
Corsica (France)
Metz (France)
Paris (France)
St. Malo (France)
Rouen (France)
Germany
Italy
- Il Lazio Con le sue piu Cospicue Strade
Antiche, e Moderne... (Rossi & Ameti, 1693)
- L'Italia con le sue Poste e Strade Principali...
(Cantelli, 1695)
- Le Grand Teatre de la Guerre en Italie...
(Mortier, [1705?])
- Plan de Naples [1750?]
- Carta deglia Stati di S.M. il Re di Sardegna...
(Dury, 1765)
- Carte de pays ajoûtés aux Etats du Roi de
Sardaigne... (Dury, 1765?)
- Etat et Rivieres de Genes (Dury, 1765?)
- Carta Geografica della Sicilia Prima...
(Rizzi-Zannoni, 1769)
- Gran Ducato de Toscana... [1773?]
- Carta Militaire di Genova... (Pinchetti
& Caniani, 1780)
- Carte générale des états du roi de Sardaigne...
(Faden, 1783)
- Carte de la partie septentrionale de l'Italie...
(Chauchard, 1791)
- Carte Générale des Marches... de l'Armée
de Réserve, depuis le passage du Grand St. Bernard... (Dupont de
l'Etang, [1800])
- Carte générale des Royaumes de Naples, Sicile
& Sardaigne... (Bacler d'Albe, 1802)
- Carta Topografica della parte più interessante
della Campagna di Roma (Westphal, 1827)
Madeira (Island)
Netherlands
Portugal
Romania
Spain
-
Plan de St. Sebastien (no date)
-
Plan de la Ville de Girone (Perelle,
circa 1670)
-
Plan de la Ville et Citadelle de Palamos
(Perelle, circa 1670)
-
Plan de la Ville, et Mole de Taragone
(Perelle, circa 1670)
-
Plan de Roses en Catalogne (Perelle,
circa 1670)
-
Plan de Tortose (Perelle, circa 1670)
-
Plan du Siege de Lerida... (Perelle,
circa 1670)
- See=Treffen so Zwischen der Esquadre den
Englischen Admiral Osborne ... (Heydin, 1759)
-
A Map of the Pyrenees and the Adjacent
Provinces by Roussel and Blottiere... (Arrowsmith, 1809)
- Carte des royaumes d'Espagne et de Portugal...
(Vivien, 1824)
Malta
Mediterranean Sea
Moldavia
Sicily
Turkey
British Isles
Most of the British maps in McMaster's collection have not yet been described.
British Isles
- England and Wales (Dower)
- Primo Evrope Tabvla... (Reger, 1486?)
- Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae...
(Ortelius, 1573?)
- Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus...
(Blaeu, 1645)
- Carte de Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland...
(Aa, 1729)
- [Atlas des Pays Bas] (Fricx, 1745)
- Britannicae, Insulae in quibus...
(Vaugondy, 1750)
- Le Royaume d'Angleterre... (Vaugondy,
1753)
- A Modern Map of the Post Roads of England
and Wales... (Sayer, [1780])
- A Map of the Country Sixty Five Miles Round
London (Andrews & Dury, [1791])
- Cary's New Map of England and Wales...
(Cary, 1794)
- Cary's New Map of England and Wales...
(Cary, 1794)
- England and Wales (Neele, 1814)
- Tableau hydrographiques des canaux navigables
de l'Angleterre, 1819 (cartographer unknown, 1819)
- Cruchley's Improved Geographical Companion
Throughout England & Wales... (1822)
- Bradshaw's Map of the Railways in Great
Britain... (Bradshaw, 1846)
- England and Wales (Collins, 1850?)
- The Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland,
& c. [Rapkin, 1850?]
- To Sr. Richard Rooth Knr. Late Governer...
(Collins, 1693)
Angelsey (Island)
Buckingham County (England)
Chester County (England)
Cornwall County (England)
Cumberland County (England)
- The Lakes
- [Cvmberlande / Westmorlande] (Drayton,
1622)
- Cvmberland (Bill, 1626)
- Westmorland and Comberlad (Keere,
1627?)
- Westmorland and Comberlad (Keere,
1627?)
- North' Vmberia, Cvmberlandia... (Mercator
and Hondius, 1628)
- Cumberland (Simons, 1635)
- Cvmbria Sive Cvmberlandia... (Camden,
1637)
- Cvmbria; Vulgo Cumberland (Blaeu,
1646)
- Cumbria & Westmoria. Vulgo Cumberland...
(Janssonius, 1646)
- Cvmbria; Vulgo Cumberland (Blaeu,
1648)
- A Generall Mapp of the Countie of Cumberland...
(Blome, 1673)
- Cumberland (Morden, 1676?)
- Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile
Described... (Speed, 1676)
- Comberland and Westmorland... (Saxton,
circa 1693)
- Cumberland (Morden, 1695)
- Cumberland (Morden, 1695)
- Cumberland (Seller, 1695)
- Carlisle - is a City of great Antiquity...
(Owen and Bowen, 1720)
- Cumberland (Moll, 1724)
- Carte de Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland...
(Aa, 1729)
- A Map of Cumberland North from London
(Toms, 1742)
- Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile
Described... (Overton, 1743)
- An Improved Map of Cumberland...
(Cowley, 1744)
- Cumberland (Simpson, 1746)
- A Correct Map of Cumberland (Osborne,
1748)
- Cumberland (Rocque, 1753)
- A New Map of Cumberland... (Kitchen,
1764)
- A Modern Map of Cumberland... (Ellis,
1766)
- Cumberland (Gibson, 1770)
- Cumberland, Verdeeld in desxelfs Wards...
(Meijer, 1770?)
- The North-West Coast of England...
(Bowen, 1775)
- Eye Draught of the Solway Moss (Bowen,
1779)
- A New Map of Cumberland and Westmoreland...
(Walpoole, 1784)
- A View of the City of Carlisle in Cumberland
(Hogg, 1784)
- Bowles's Reduced Map of Cumberland
(Bowles, 1785)
- [Westmoreland] / [Cumberland] (Paterson,
1785)
- A Map of Cumberland from the Best Authorities
(Cary, 1789)
- Cumberland (Aikin, 1790)
- Cumberland (Baker, 1791)
- To the Nobility... of the County of Cumberland
(Faden, 1802)
- Cumberland (Luffman, 1803)
- Cumberland (Baker, 1807)
- Cumberland in which every Parish and
Place... (Capper, 1808)
- Cumberland (Cary, 1809)
- Cumberland (Wallis, 1810)
- Cumberland (Wallis, 1810)
- Cumberland (Wallis, 1812)
- Completion of the Roads to the Lakes...
(Laurie & Whittle, 1814)
- Cumberland (Perrot, 1823)
- Cumberland Westmoreland (Perrot,
circa 1823)
- Cumberland (Teesdale, 1829)
- Cumberland (Murray, 1830)
- Cumberland (Pigot & Co., 1831)
- Cumberland (Cobbett, 1832)
- Cumberland (Hall, 1836)
- Cumberland (Moule, 1837?)
- Cumberland (Moule, 1837?)
- Cumberland (Lewis, 1840)
- Cumberland (Fisher, 1842?)
- Cumberland (Fullarton, 1843)
- Cumberland (Ramble, 1845)
- Cumberland (Ramble, 1845)
- Cumberland (Dugdale, 1848)
- Cumberland (Walker, 1850)
- The Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland,
& c. (Rapkin, 1850?)
- Cumberland and Westmorland Revised Throughout...
(Bacon, [1883?])
- England-West Coast the Firth of Solway...
(British Admiralty, 1931)
Devonshire County (England)
Dorsetshire County (England)
Durham County (England)
Essex County (England)
Exeter (England)
Gloucester County (England)
Guernsey (Island)
Hampshire County (England)
Hereford County (England)
Isle of Wight (England)
Jersey (Island)
Kent County (England)
Lancashire County (England)
Lincoln County (England)
Liverpool (England)
London (England)
Manchester (England)
Middlesex County (England)
Northumberland County (England)
Norfolk County (England)
Northampton County (England)
Nottingham County (England)
Oxford County (England)
Plymouth (England)
Shropshire County (England)
Somerset County (England)
Staffordshire County (England)
Suffolk County (England)
Sussex County (England)
Westmoreland County (England)
- [Cvmberlande / Westmorlande] (Drayton,
1622)
- Westmorland... (Keere, 1627?)
- Westmorland and Comberlad (Keere,
1627?)
- Westmorland and Comberlad (Keere,
1627?)
- Westmorelandiae... (Camden, 1637)
- Cumbria & Westmoria. Vulgo Cumberland...
(Janssonius, 1646)
- Comberland and Westmorland... (Saxton,
circa 1693)
- Westmorland (Morden, 1695)
- Carte de Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland...
(Aa, 1729)
- The County of Westmoreland... (Jefferys,
1770)
- A New Map of Cumberland and Westmoreland...
(Walpoole, 1784)
- [Westmoreland] / [Cumberland] (Paterson,
1785)
- Completion of the Roads to the Lakes...
(Laurie & Whittle, 1814)
- Cumberland Westmoreland (Perrot,
circa 1823)
- The Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland,
& c. (Rapkin, 1850?)
- Cumberland and Westmorland Revised Throughout...
[Bacon, 1883-1891?]
- Cumb. S. & Westm. [Bacon, 1883-1891?]
Wiltshire County (England)
Worcester County (England)
Ireland
Scotland
Edinburghshire (Scotland)
Midlothian (Scotland)
Wales
Asia
Asia
Australia
China
India
Indonesia
Jerusalem
Malaysia
- Malaka (Schley, [circa 1763?])
Middle East
- [Untitled Ptolemaic Map of Persia] [Fries,
1525]
- Turcici Imperii Imago (Hondius, 1630)
- Tvrcicvm Imperivm (Wit, circa 1680?)
- A Map of Turky, Arabia and Persia...
(Senex, date unknown)
- Carte de la Partie Septentrionale de l'Empire
Otoman... (Rizzi-Zannoni, 1774)
- Carte des Environs de la Mer-Noire...
(de Vaugondy, 1783)
- A New Map of the Empire of Persia...
(Laurie & Whittle, 1794)
- A New Map of Turkey in Asia... (Laurie
& Whittle, 1794)
- Egypt with part of Arabia and Palestine...
(Laurie & Whittle, 1801)
- The Countries situated between Babylon
and the Carduchians... (Rennell, 1809)
- The Route in Detail of Cyrus the Younger...
(Rennell, 1816)
- A New Historical Map of Palestine...
(Creighton, 1831)
- Palestine (Johnston, [1859?])
- Persia and Cabool (Johnston, [1859?])
- Turkey in Asia (Johnston, [1859?])
- Betts's Family Atlas Central Asia (Betts,
[1863?])
- Bett's Family Atlas Syria and Lower Egypt
(Betts, [1863?])
- Palestine (Betts, [1863?])
- Map of the Holy Land... (Colton &
Colton, 1867)
- Tunison's New Map of Palestine and All
Bible Lands... (Tunison, 1904)
Pakistan
Philippines
Russia
Novaya Zemlya (Russia)
Ukraine
Africa
Egypt
Saint-Louis (French West Africa)
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