COPIES OF RARE MAPS.

I.— Delineation of the hyperborean regions by Sigurd Stephanius in 1570 22

II.— A part of the map of the New World contained in the edition of Ptolemy’s geography printed in Strasburg in 1513 124

III.— A part of the Cabot-map of 1544, in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris 190

IV.— Map of the New World contained in Peter Martyr’s “Legatio Babylonica,” printed in 1511 220

V.— A tracing representing the limits of the discoveries of Juan Ponce de Leon and Francisco de Garay. 1521 278

VI.— A part of the map of the fourth part of the world contained in the Cosmographie Universelle by André Thevet, printed in Paris in 1575 304

VII.— Map of Terre de la Franciscane in the cosmography of Jean Alphonse and Raulin Secalart, 1545 354

VIII.— Map of a part of North America made by Giacomo de Gastaldi in 1553 356

IX.— A part of the map of the world made by Gerard Mercator in Duisburg in 1569 360

X.— A part of the map of the world made by Juan de la Cosa in 1500 cover-pocket

XI.— A part of the map of the world made by Johann Ruysch, contained in the edition of Ptolemy’s geography printed in Rome in 1508 cover-pocket

XII.— A part of the map of the world made by Visconte de Maiollo in 1527 cover-pocket