(Text Page to) (2) Mapping the coasts, 1492-1874 : Stephanius 1590 -- Behaim 1492 -- Ruysch 1508 -- Waldseemiller 1507 -- Agnese 1540 -- Ptolemy 1548 edition -- Zaltieri 1566 -- La Cosa 1500 -- Canerio 1502-04 -- Desceliers 1550 -- Ribero 1529 -- Velasco 1610 -- Mercator 1595 -- Foxe 1635 -- Franklin 1823 -- British Admirality 1835 -- British Admirality 1874 -- De Laet 1630 -- Anonymous 1758 -- Cook 1784 -- Arrowsmith 1822. (Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys.)

• Main Authors: Canada. Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Nicholson, N. L. (Norman Leon), Comtois, Paul
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geographical Branch 1958
• Subjects: Geography; Exploration; Historical; Agnese; Arrowsmith; Canada; Nicholson; Newfoundland
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Descriptive text on verso of (2) Mapping the coasts, 1492-1874: This plate is designed to show, by means of a series of historical maps, how the knowledge of the extent and shape of Canada grew from earliest times to the period around Confederation . First edition was in 1906 (see our 1645.000); sec...