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Arctic Regions. 1680? De Wit, Frederick Poli Arctici et circumiacentium terrarum descriptio novissima per Fredericum de Wit Amstelodami. [Amsterdam, 1680?] Coloured. "Gedruckt i Amsteldam by Frederick de Wit in de Valverstract aen den Dam in de Wit paseaert"
Arctic Regions. 1680? De Wit, Frederick Poli Arctici et circumiacentium terrarum descriptio novissima per Fredericum de Wit Amstelodami. [Amsterdam, 1680?] Coloured. "Gedruckt i Amsteldam by Frederick de Wit in de Valverstract aen den Dam in de Wit paseaert"
87-001/HMC28 · Item · 1680?
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection

A highly decorative piece consisting of a circular map 17 in. in diameter of the Arctic set within a rectangle 19 x 17 in. with its remaining portions filled with remarkable coloured vignettes of whaling scenes in the northern regions. The Arctic is shown in its standard form for this period ... with Northwest America absent due to lack of available knowledge.
Arctic Regions. 1680 Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654-1696 A map of the North Pole and the parts adjoining. Oxon, At the Theater, MDCLXXX. Has two coloured illustrations: one of a family in Eskimo dress and the other of fishermen harpooning a whale. Inset map at top right is of Nova Zembla [Zembia?] Has note: In the Philosophical Transactions of ao. 1674, no. 101, there is set down a description of Nova Zembla as it was sent to the Royal Society from a Russian merchant and discovered by order of the Grand Czaar, but there being not joyned to it either longitude latitude or other measure, we thought it better to follow the two newest maps. One printed at Amsterdam 1678 the other at Nuremberg 1679 and to place this by itself which shews it not an island but joyned with the continent at the letter K." Map dedicated to the Right Honble. Charles FitzCharles, Earle of Plymouth ... Taken from vol. 1 of Pitt's English Atlas published under Royal patronage in 1680. The Atlas bankrupted Pitt; only
87-001/HMC13 · Item · 1680
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Arctic Regions. 1748 Bowen, Emanuel, d.1767 Correct draught of the North Pole and of all the countries hitherto discovered, intercepted between the Pole and the parallel of 50 degrees. Exhibiting the most remarkable tracts of our English navigators &c. in their several attempts to find out the North East and North West Passages. Drawn from the most approved modern maps and charts and adjusted by Astron. observations by Eman Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty. [London] 1748. "Bowen-Harris""Vol. II page 377" Includes notes related to the search for the Northwest Passage
87-001/HMC30 · Item · 1748
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Arctic Regions. 1862 Johnson, J. Hugh Arctic Regions: [the lower map:] The Arctic regions, showing the North-West passage as determined by Capt. R. McClure and other Arctic voyagers, compiled by J. Hugh Johnson; [upper map:] Wellington Channel, Melville Island, &c., from Admiralty chart. London, A Fullarton & Co., 1856. Consisting of two maps on one sheet. Has coloured illustrations surrounding the maps: Terror thrown up by the ice in frozen strait, Prince Albert surrounded by icebergs in Melville Bay, Cape Hotham with H.M.S. Pioneer and Resolute, Esquimaux female, Seal hunting, Building snow hut, Sledge travelling, Walrus or horse, and Esquimaux man and boy. From: London, The Royal English Atlas, 1862. "Map no. 3"
87-001/HMC32 · Item · 1862
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of, . The Canadian North-West. Speech delivered at Winnipeg by His Excellency the Marquis of Lorne, Governor General of Canada, after his tour through Manitoba and the North-West, during the summer of 1881. Ottawa: s.n. [Department of Agriculture]
P903 · File · 1882
Part of Pamphlet collection

Octavo. Original Printed Wrappers. (22 cm x 14.4 cm), pp. 22, side-notes, folding map, tan printed paper wraps, pamphlet-stitched binding. At head of cover: "To be ignorant of the North-West is to be ignorant of the greater portion of our Country", and below title: "The Universal Verdict - Expectations More than Realized." Covers lightly soiled, stamp at lower end of front cover: "From Depository of Emigration Literature, 33 York St., Toronto, W.R. Callaway, General Manager", address stamp to rear cover, department of Emigration plate to rear cover partially covering address stamp, else very good copy. "During the tour the Vice-Regal partly drove nearly 1,500 miles after leaving the Canada Pacific line at Portage la Prairie; hence no more reliable accounts could be obtained from any traveller than His Excellency was in a position to give, and his statements proclaim trumpet-tongued that the Land of Promise surpasses in richness of soil, grandeur of scenery, and gradations of climatology, any other country upon the American Continent." - Introduction. [2291]