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            North America, Central. Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718 Partie Occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France ou sont les nations des Ilinois, de Tracy, les Iroquois, et plusieurs autres peuples; avec la Louisiane nouvellement decouverte et dresee sur mes memoires nouveaux par le P. Coronelli, cosmographe de la Serme. Repub. de Venise. Corrigee et augmentee par le Sr. Tillemon, et dedice a Monseiur l'Abbe Baudrand. A Paris, chez I.B. Nolin sur le Quay de L'Horloge du Palais vers le Pont Neuf a l'Enseigne de la Place des Victoires. Avec privilege du Roy, 1688
            87-001/HMC18 · Item · 1688
            Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
            North America, Eastern. Moll, Herman, d. 1732 A map of New France containing Canada, Louisiana &c. in North America according to the patent granted by the King of France to Monsieur Crozat dated the 14th of Sep. 1712 N.S. and registered in the Parliament of Paris the 24th of the same month by H. Moll, Geographer. [London? ca. 1740]. Phliips Atlases, 3526, Map no. 50. April 1997, note glass on picture frame broken
            87-001/HMC19 · Item · [1740?]
            Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
            North America. Rapkin, J. North America. The illustrations by J. Marchant & engraved by J. Rogers. The map drawn & engraved by J. Rapkin. London, J. Tallis. Coloured in outline. Coloured illustrations surround the map: Inuit dog-sledge, Mount Hekla, Beavers, Falls of Niagara, Convoy of diamonds, Ancient Monument, Mexico, North American Indians, Wapiti Deer, Cossacks. From: Tallis's Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World
            87-001/HMC22 · Item · 1851
            Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
            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. 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
            Quebec (Que.). 1760 Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771 An authentic plan of the River St. Laurence from Sillery, to the Fall of Montmorenci, with the operations of the Siege of Quebec under the Command of Vice-Adml. Saunders & Major Genl. Wolfe down to the 5. Sepr. 1759. Drawn by a Captain in His Majesties Navy. [London?] 1760. "This map is dedicated to the Right Honourable William Pitt Esqr...." Includes two inset maps: Part of the Upper River of St. Laurence, and A View of the action gained by the English Sepr. 13 1759 near Quebec brought from thence by an Officer of Distinction
            87-001/HMC34 · Item · 1760
            Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
            Maritimes. 1851 Rapkin, J. Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The illustrations by A. Russell & engraved by J. Rogers. The map drawn & engraved by J. Rapkin. London, J. Tallis, 1851. Coloured in outline. Coloured illustrations surrounding the map: Halifax, Nova Scotia and Cod fishing off Newfoundland. Has the seals of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, and Newfoundland printed on the map. From: Tallis's Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World
            87-001/HMC42 · Item · 1851
            Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
            North America, Eastern. Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724. La Louisiane. Amplissimae Regions Mississippi seu. Provinciae Ludocivianae a R.P. Ludovico Hennepin in America Septentrionali Anno 1687 detectae nunc Gallorum Coloniis et Actionum Megotilis toto Orbe celeberrimae, Nova Tabula edita a Io. Bapt. Homanno. [Nuremberg, 1705?] Coloured map with black and white illustrations of beavers at Niagara Falls and of Indigenous people standing beside a buffalo
            87-001/MC11(01) · Item · 1705
            Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
            North America, Eastern. Chatelain, Henri Abraham Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississippi Aujour d'ui. [Paris?] 1719. Includes inset map of the coast of Louisiana. A plan and view of Quebec are engraved in a cartouche in the lower right hand corner. From: t. 6 (1719) of Chatelain's Atlas Historique, 1705-1720, with text by Guedeville. Phillips, Maps, p. 567. [was originally in Slot 26]
            87-001/MC12(01) · Item · 1719
            Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection

            Chatelain's map of North America was published to promote the interests of the Compagnie Francoise Occident, a trading company established to encourage the development of the Louisiana territory and as a consequence of its development, the stabilization of a lagging French economy. The map illustrates the relationship among the French, English and Spanish claims on the continent.