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- Creator:
- Bacstrom, Sigismund
- Published / Created:
- 1792-1800, bulk 1792-1794.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2405 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 130
- Abstract:
- Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates of anchorages, and occasionally events on board ship or shore. Ten watercolors are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, eight of them signed by Bacstrom and fully executed after his return. There are ten views of the Northwest Coast of America, including Nootka Sound and Queen Charlotte's Island, and Native American villages at Norfolk Sound and Fitzhugh Sound. There are two maps of Queen Charlotte's Island, six watercolors of canoes from the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands, and four drawings of Native American and Pacific island ethnographic objects and There are eighteen watercolor sketches and drawings of the coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Staaten Island near Cape Horn. Other drawings include ten watercolors of Chinese men and women, a pencil drawing of a Chinese junk, and a watercolor of an American tea plant. The drawings are accompanied by a highly finished watercolor of the Greenland Whale Fishery not made during the voyage, and a manuscript catalog of "some accurate and characteristic original drawings" made on the voyage with prices; not all of the drawings listed correspond to drawings present in the collection
- Description:
- Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon on several ships, visiting China, India, the Cape, and the Americas., Accompanied by a container list., Manuscript captions., and View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
- Subject (Geographic):
- Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drawings and sketches made during a voyage around the world, 1791-1795
- Creator:
- Hughes, J., active 1872, artist
- Published / Created:
- [30 March 1872]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H893 no. 1 Box D128
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A comic map of Great Britain: an old woman is shown in profile, facing to the left, and seated on the back of a dolphin-like monster. At the top her cap is Scotland; her neck is labeled R. Tees (River Tees) and along her back is "Humber" and "The Wash" The mouth of the creature is labeled "Thames". The other points on the map are: Isle of Wight and Bristol Channel, Cardogan Bay, and Anglesea (a bird perched on the woman's out-stretched hand).
- Alternative Title:
- Britannia
- Description:
- Title supplied by artist above design., Added title supplied by cataloger, based on the Gillray print of which this is a copy., Signed and dated by the artist in lower margin., and Drawn after James Gillray's print "Britannia", published 25 June 1791. Cf. No. 8045 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > England [art original]
- Creator:
- Sanborn Map Company, cartographer
- Published / Created:
- 1881-
- Call Number:
- 1997 Folio 77
- Image Count:
- 47
- Description:
- Bein 1997 Folio 77: v. 1 only. and Includes index.
- Publisher:
- Sanborn Map and Pub. Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, San Francisco, and San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Fire risk assessment
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Insurance maps of San Francisco, California
5.
- Creator:
- Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720
- Published / Created:
- 1718.
- Call Number:
- 71 1718
- Image Count:
- 2
- Alternative Title:
- Le cours du Missisipi ou de St. Louis ...
- Description:
- Relief shown pictorially., Title from lower right cartouche., Originally in 4 sheets., Includes text and ill., and Insets: Les costes de la Louisiane de puis la Baye de l'Ascension jusques Acelle de St. Joseph ... Scale [ca. 1:1,000,000] -- Les environs de Québec -- Veüe de Québec.
- Publisher:
- Chez L'Auteur
- Subject (Geographic):
- North America, Mississippi River Delta (La.), Gulf Coast (Miss.), Gulf Coast (Ala.), and Québec Region (Québec)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La France Occidentale dans l'Amérique Septentrionale : ou le cours de la Rivière de St. Laurens, aux environs de la quelle se trouvent Le Canada, L'Acadie, et la Gaspasie, Les Esquimaux, Les Hurons, Les Iroquois, Les Illinois & La Virginie, La Marie-Lande, La Pensilvanie, Le Nouveau-Jersay, La Nouvelle Yorck, La Nouvelle Angleterre et l'Isle de Terre-Neuve
- Creator:
- Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908, cartographer
- Published / Created:
- Decr. 1863.
- Call Number:
- Roll Map 78
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- cartographic image
- Alternative Title:
- Map of a portion of Westville and New Haven
- Description:
- Imperfect: mutilated. Mounted on linen. Manuscript note on verso (partially trimmed): Map of old P[?]; D.G. Mitchell., Date of production precedes statement of responsibility., Oriented with north towards right., Relief shown by hachures., "Scale: 140 ft. to inch.", Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., Includes names of ownership., and Includes inset map of surrounding area in lower right corner.
- Subject (Geographic):
- New Haven (Conn.)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Map of a portion of Westville & New Haven
- Creator:
- Herberstein, Sigmund, Freiherr von, 1486-1566
- Published / Created:
- 1557.
- Call Number:
- 2011 +124
- Image Count:
- 204
- Alternative Title:
- Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii. German and Moscovia der Hauptstat in Reissen
- Description:
- BEIN 2011 +124: Bookplate of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. Unidentified stamp. Manuscript waste used in binding., Translation by the author from his original Latin edition., Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ A-D⁴ E² F-Y⁴ Z²., and Map title: Moscovia Sigmunds Freyherns zu Herberstain, Neyperg und Guetenhag u. verteutscht.
- Publisher:
- Getruckht zu Wienn in Osterreich durch Michael Zimmerman ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia and Moscow (Russia)
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Moscouia der Hauptstat in Reissen
8.
- Creator:
- Herberstein, Sigmund, Freiherr von, 1486-1566, author
- Published / Created:
- 1549]
- Call Number:
- 2014 +259
- Container / Volume:
- 2
- Image Count:
- 34
- Alternative Title:
- Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii and Rervm Moscoviticarvm comentarii
- Description:
- BEIN 2001 +95: Imperfect: some loss of marginal ms. notes and illustrations due to bleeding. Hand colored illustrations. Contemporary ms. annotations and corrections, possibly in hand of the author (according to dealer slip in CtY-BR copy). Bookplate: From the collection of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. Dealer description pasted in., BEIN 2014 +259: Imperfect: leaves IIII and X (first count) wanting; leaf ²E6 (blank) wanting; leaves II-III and leaf VIII (first count) mutilated, with some loss of text; wormed in gutter, with no loss of text; binding broken, with loose pages; edges of leaves reinforced with paper. Variant setting of type for dedication on leaf II (first count); 33 lines on recto, 27 lines on verso. Manuscript note, corrections in text, and inscription of Sigmund Herberstein on title page. Bookplate: From the collection of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski., Imprint from BM STC German., Dedication dated and signed: Viennae Austriae prima Matrij M.D.XLIX. ... Sigimundus liber Baro in Herberstain, Neyperg & Guttenhag., Includes a map and a portrait of the author engraved by Augustin Hirschvogel; portrait includes Hirschvogel's monogram and the date 1547., and Signatures: A-C⁴, ²A-E⁶, ³A-F⁶ ³G²(-³G2).
- Publisher:
- Johann Singriener
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rerum Moscouiticarum comentarii : in hijs comentarijs sparsim contenta habebis candide lector ...
9.
- Creator:
- Herberstein, Sigmund, Freiherr von, 1486-1566, author
- Published / Created:
- 1549]
- Call Number:
- 2001 +95
- Image Count:
- 177
- Alternative Title:
- Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii and Rervm Moscoviticarvm comentarii
- Description:
- BEIN 2001 +95: Imperfect: some loss of marginal ms. notes and illustrations due to bleeding. Hand colored illustrations. Contemporary ms. annotations and corrections, possibly in hand of the author (according to dealer slip in CtY-BR copy). Bookplate: From the collection of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. Dealer description pasted in., BEIN 2014 +259: Imperfect: leaves IIII and X (first count) wanting; leaf ²E6 (blank) wanting; leaves II-III and leaf VIII (first count) mutilated, with some loss of text; wormed in gutter, with no loss of text; binding broken, with loose pages; edges of leaves reinforced with paper. Variant setting of type for dedication on leaf II (first count); 33 lines on recto, 27 lines on verso. Manuscript note, corrections in text, and inscription of Sigmund Herberstein on title page. Bookplate: From the collection of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski., Imprint from BM STC German., Dedication dated and signed: Viennae Austriae prima Matrij M.D.XLIX. ... Sigimundus liber Baro in Herberstain, Neyperg & Guttenhag., Includes a map and a portrait of the author engraved by Augustin Hirschvogel; portrait includes Hirschvogel's monogram and the date 1547., and Signatures: A-C⁴, ²A-E⁶, ³A-F⁶ ³G²(-³G2).
- Publisher:
- Johann Singriener
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rerum Moscouiticarum comentarii : in hijs comentarijs sparsim contenta habebis candide lector ...
10.
- Creator:
- Herberstein, Sigmund, Freiherr von, 1486-1566
- Published / Created:
- anno salutis 1556 mense Augusto.
- Call Number:
- 2014 +260
- Image Count:
- 269
- Alternative Title:
- Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii
- Description:
- BEIN 2014 +260: Imperfect: title page slightly mutilated, and repaired, with no loss of text. Unidentified stamp on title page. Printed label pasted at foot of title page: Musaei, Joannis Baptistae Visi Mantuani. Some manuscript annotations in text. Bookplate: From the collection of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. Bookseller's label: C.E. Rappaport ... Roma., In Latin., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: a-s⁶ t⁴ u⁶., Title vignette (printer's device); numerous large and small historiated woodcut initials., Illustrated with 8 woodcuts attributed to Jost Amman; 3 woodcut maps, including the originally published map of Russia from Finland to the Caspian, a pictorial version of the same area, and a plan of the walled citadel of Moscow; and a genealogical tree, compiled by Herberstein, and dated 1553, showing descendants of the royal houses of Spain and Austria., and Includes index.
- Publisher:
- Ex officina Ioannis Oporini
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia and Moscow (Russia)
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel, Maps, and Geography
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarij Sigismundi liberi baronis in Herberstain, Neyperg, & Guettenhag : Russiae, & quae nunc eius metropolis est, Moscouiae, breuissima descriptio : chorographia deniq[ue] totius imperij Moscici & uicinorum quorundam mentio : de religione quoq[ue] uaria inserta sunt & quae nostra cum religione non conueniunt : quis deniq[ue] modus excipiendi & tractandi oratores differitur : itineraria quoq[ue] duo in Moscouiam sunt aduncta : ad haec, non solum nouae aliquot tabulae, sed multa etiam alia nunc demum ab ipso autore adiecta sunt : quae, si cui cum prima editione conferre libeat, facile deprehendet