Week Four

Map showing Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage of 1585, including the Atlantic Ocean, parts of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa. Cartographic elements include compass rose, scale, Ferro meridian, equator, sea banks or shoals, and…

Map of New France, including part of northeastern Canada and New England, from Labrador south to present-day South Carolina. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude, scales, sea banks or shoals, location of rivers (especially…

40x43 cm. Notable for the land grants in the Ohio district following the Revolution, and the incursions on British Canada by the "Province of Main."

Postage stamp that shows the extent of the British empire. Result of an imperial conference on postage at which Canada argued for an imperial system of postage; this was created to illustrate that. Using the phrase "We hold a vaster empire than has…

Imperial Federation, Map of the World Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886

Three parts bound together in a single volume. The first part (tomus prior) includes a decorative colored title page which is filled with geographers with mapping instruments and globes at the top and bottom within an architectural surrounding.…

7th edition "prepared in the Natural Resources Intelligence Branch under the direction of F.C.C. Lynch, Superintendent."

- Covers North and South America with the adjacent seas.
- Relief shown pictorially.
- From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, no. 1303.
- Originally printed on 6 sheets.
- Described in Quarterly Journal of the Library of…