Browse Items (8 total)

Diego Gutiérrez, Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio, 1562

- Covers North and South America with the adjacent seas.
- Relief shown pictorially.
- From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, no.…

Tags: 16th century, New World, North America, Phillip II, South America, Spain

Canada. Natural Resources Intelligence Branch. , and Canada. Department of the Interior., Map of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta: showing the number of quarter sections available for homestead entry in each township, 1920

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

Tags: Canada, empire, grid, railway, western interior

Petrus Bertius, Composite: Tabulae Peutingerianae segmentum I - VIII, 1619

Three parts bound together in a single volume. The first part (tomus prior) includes a decorative colored title page which is filled with geographers…

Tags: classical, Europe, Roman

Walter Crane, Imperial Federation, Map of the World Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886, 1866

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

American Bank Note Company Ltd., Ottawa, Canadian imperial stamp (1898), 1898

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…

Tags: Canada, communications, empire, global

John Stockdale & Jedidiah Morse
, A Map of the Northern and Middle States (1794), 1794

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."

Tags: eighteenth century, expansion, national borders

Vincenzo Coronelli, Partie orientale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France (1689), 1689

Map of New France, including part of northeastern Canada and New England, from Labrador south to present-day South Carolina. Cartographic elements…

Tags: Atlantic, New France, seventeenth century

Baptista Boazio, The Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and Barkes wherin weare gotten the Townes of St. Iago: Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines ... Newlie come forth by Baptista B., 1589

Map showing Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage of 1585, including the Atlantic Ocean, parts of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.…

Tags: Francis Drake, New World, sixteenth century