Printed map. "Descritto dal p. cosmografo Coronelli, e dedicato all'illustrissimo Signore Alessandro de Verazzano nobile Fiorentino". Visual scale [32 mm=240 "miglia d'Italia"]. Acquired as part of the Banks Collection.
Printed map. Visual scale [49 mm=50 echelle de lieues communes de France]. Probably originally published in Jacques Bellin's Description Géographique de la Guiane..., published in Paris, 1763. In upper right margin, "Tome II. No. 27." Described in The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Maps, Charts and Plans, Vol. 11, p. 24. Acquired as part of the Banks Collection.
Printed map. "Arnoldus Florentius à Langren, author & scalptor." Probably originally published in Linschoten's Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien..., published 1596 and reprinted 1599 to 1644. Two cartouches (one in Latin, the other in Dutch). Two visual scales. According to Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, Langren has "five maps in J.H. van Linschoten's Itinerario..., Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz. 1596...." ([vol. 3], p. 86). Acquired as part of the Banks Collection.
Printed map. Visual scales [80 mm = 60 Milliaria Germanica communia; 80 mm = 80 Milliaria Gallica communia]. Published originally in Blaeu's Atlantis Appendix, sive pars altera, continens tab. geographicas diversarum Orbis regionum, published 1630. The first publication of this map is described in Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. II, entry Bl 1, p. 73-75. McMaster's copy has 2 pages of Latin text on verso with primary heading, "Gviana, five regio Amazonvm" and page numbered "16" near the upper right corner.
Acquired as part of the Banks Collection.