Rare Books
[Collection of maps of American islands and ports]
Image not available
You might also be interested in
Carte d'une partie de l'Amerique pour la navigation des isles et du Golfe du Mexique avec l'interieur des Terres depuis la Bermuda jusqu'a Cayenne Partie Meridional
Rare Books
Patterned after Popple's map "with corrections and amendments." Discussion of miles, but no scale on the map itself. MS note: No.(5) 7. "Réduite de la Carte Angloise en 20 Suelles par Mr. Popple avec quelques Corrections et Augmentations par Phil. Buache ern 1740." Prime meridian: London, Paris. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 30 150094 dr/L2+2 10 pieces.
150094
Image not available
Considerations geographical and physical on the new discoveries north of the Great Sea, commonly called the South Sea; with maps relative thereto
Manuscripts
Manuscript English translation.
mssHM 210
Image not available
Kashnor collection of early American maps
Manuscripts
The 85 manuscripts, known as the Kashnor maps, are named after the proprietor of the Museum Book Store, from which they were purchased. They include original maps and copies of cartographic renderings dating from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries. The maps focus primarily on sites and land involved in the French and Indian War in New York and Canada (67 maps), but there are also maps related to the American Revolution (3 maps), and ones of Central America (4 maps), and other regions (10 maps). The collection also contains a drawing of a dart or fire-arrow retrieved near Fort William Henry after Montcalm's attack in 1757. Some of the maps in the collection are hand drawn copies of earlier maps. These include ones executed during the French and Indian War. There are also four maps charting the voyages of the H.M.S. Asia in 1848-1851 that were copies made in 1856. Consequently, the creation dates of the Kashnor maps are from 1754-1856.
mssHM 15399-15475
A new map of the island of Cuba with correct plans of all the principal ports and harbours it contains
Rare Books
Removed from Universal Museum, November 1762, p 603. (Described in Cuba In Old Maps by Emilio Cueto, 1999.) Submaps: Ten Ports and harbors. Prime meridian: Ferro, London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues, miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
295817