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Map Collection (Exploration and Travel)
Map Collection (Exploration and Travel)
The map collection consists of about 6,000 maps and 500 atlases, dating from
1556 to 1940. The collection strengths are discovery and exploration of North
America, Montreal and Europe. Early atlases include Claudius Ptolemy's
Geografia (Padua, 1620-1621), Thomas Porcacchi's L'Isole piu famuso
del Mondo (Padua, 1620), and Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia
macrocosmica (Amsterdam: Jansson, 1661). Significant maps in the collection
include plates from the atlases of Willem Blaeu, Gerard Mercator and Abraham
Ortelius.
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DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION OF NORTH AMERICA
The strength of the collection is the discovery and exploration of North
America. Among the earliest accounts of voyages to North America is Ramusio's
Navagationi et Viaggi (Venice, 1556). Maps of discovery include Cornelius
Claesz's Nova Francia (Amsterdam, 1594), Willem Barents Deliniatio
Cartae trium navagationum (1598) and Hessel Gerritsz's Tabula
Nautica (Amsterdam, 1612). Manuscript plans of New France by Jehan Bourdon
dated 1635-1642, are also worthy of mention. Some of the notable maps of
New France are included in a
set of fifty maps (1556-1850) donated by McGill graduate and management
professor William H. Pugsley (1912-1993). As well, there is Admiral Henry
W. Bayfield's Charts of the River St. Lawrence (1828-1865).
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MONTREAL MAPS (AND THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC)
Montreal maps span the years 1556 to 1940. Examples of these are: Gastaldi's
La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia (1556) from Ramusio's
Navagationi, John Adams Map of the city and suburbs of Montreal
(1825) and James Cane's Topographical and pictorial map of the city
of Montreal (1846). Early maps of Quebec include the manuscript map of
Samuel Gale and John B. Duberger's Plan of part of the Province of Lower
Canada, 1794 & 1795, Jean Deshayes La grande rivière de
Canada (1715) and Gabriel Pelegrin's manuscript map Fleuve de Saint Laurent,
1755. The Division has four major collections of fire insurance atlases
for Montreal: Henry W. Hopkins Atlas of the city and island of Montreal
(1879), Chas. E. Goad's Atlas of the city of Montreal (1890),
Pinsoneault Atlas of the island and city of Montreal (1906) and Chas.
E. Goad's Atlas of the city of Montreal and vicinity 4 vols. (1911-14).
There are also a number of county atlases for the province, as well as fire
insurance maps for about 100 cities and towns in the province, dated 1896-ca
1940.
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EUROPEAN MAPS
There are some excellent maps of London and Paris, as well as some regional
plans of England and France. Louis Bretez's Plan de Paris (Paris,
1739) is a magnificent bird's-eye view. Joseph Nicolas de L'Isle's Atlas
Russicus (St. Petersburg, 1745) exemplifies the French contribution to
Russian cartography. Dmitriy Petin's [General map of the Russian Empire]
(Moscow, 1785) is an important example of Russian cartography.
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GUIDEBOOKS
The Division has some 2500 guidebooks. One of the earliest Canadian guidebooks
is Gideon Miner Davison, The Fashionable Tour: A Guide to Travellers Visiting
the Middle and Northern States, and the Provinces of Canada 4th edition
(Saratoga Springs: 1830). There are many nineteenth century guidebooks of
Europe, such as: Oxford University and City Guide (Oxford : Munday
and Slatter, 1818); Ludlow Guide, 4th edition. (Ludlow : H. Procter, 1831);
Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland, 8th ed. (Edinburgh: Adam
and Charles Black, 1850). In addition, there are many guidebooks by Baedeker,
who started publishing in 1839. Also included in the collection are a number
of eighteenth-century guidebooks, for example Forestiere illuminato...
della citta di Venezia (Venice: Giovanbatista Albrizzi q. Girol, 1740).
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