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Gary E. and Janet J. Venable Antiquarian Atlas & Map Collection

Creator

Venable, Gary E.
Venable, Janet J.

Title

Gary E. and Janet J. Venable Antiquarian Atlas & Map Collection

Description

The Venable Collection documents the history of cartography, geography, and exploration from the sixteenth through the early twentieth century. Materials in the collection include maps on loose sheets, bound atlases, textbooks, and works on geography. Over 150 single-sheet maps provide examples of the work of noted cartographers such as Abraham Ortelius, Willem Blaeu, Thomas Kitchin, and John Speed.

Holdings: 173 single-sheet maps; 79 bound atlases

Digital versions of the single-sheet maps are available through the MU Digital Library.

Access

The collection is available to all researchers. Request materials for use in the Special Collections reading room.

The collection is in the process of being fully catalogued and described. Provisional finding aids are available.

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Featured Items

A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne according to ye truest Descriptions lastest Discoveries & best observations yt have beene made by English or Strangers.

Africae tabula nova.

Africae, described, the manners of their habits, and buildings newly done into English by I. S.

Africa Antiqua et Nova.

Africae pars borealis

Africae pars australis

Africa Volgens de alder-eerste Scheeps-Togten der Portugysen Ter Ontdekking Uytgesonden Ao. 1419 enz.

Africa, agreeable to the most approved maps and charts

Map of Africa Engraved to Illustrate Mitchell’s New Intermediate Geography

Africa [with colonial borders and color-coding]

Map of Oceanica Engraved to Illustrate Mitchell’s New Intermediate Geography

Nieuwe Kaart van Asia na de alderlaatste ondekking int licht gebrachat

Fifth map, or, Map of 1733 : to accompany Willard's History of the United States.

A new & complete Mercator chart of the world.

Africae descriptio nova : Impensis Philippi Chetwind

A new and accurate map of the world : comprehending all the new discoveries, in both hemispheres, carefully brought down to the present time.

La Floride : suivant les nouvelles observations de Messrs. de l'Academie royale des sciences, etc.

Various Plans and Draughts of Cities, Towns, Harbours &c . . .

A new map of the British Empire in Nth. America

The United States of America confirmed by treaty 1783.

A Statistical Map of Missouri Showing Manufacturing and Mechanical Industries by Counties. With A Soil and Mineral Map of Missouri Showing the Principal Soil Areas and the Regions of Coal, Lead, and Zinc.

Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defences of the Western and North Western Frontier, as Proposed by Charles Gratiot in his report of Oct. 31, 1837.

Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defences of the Western and North Western Frontier, as Proposed by the Hon. J. R. Poinsett Sec. of War, in his report of Dec. 30, 1837.

Map of the Middle States engraved to illustrate Mitchell’s New Intermediate Geography.

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