Venable Maps (Collection)

: Map of the World on a Globular Projection; Appeared in Olney’s School Geography: A practical system of modern geography comprising a view of the present state of the world (first published in 1829). Engraved by Sherman & Smith of New York, which included John Calvin Smith (1809-1890), George E. Sherman (born in 1810 or 1811), and Samuel Stiles (1796-1861). They were specialists in cartographic engraving and mainly did work for government publications., On verso: Blank

: Middlesex; Appeared in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure and later in Lauire & Whittle’s New and Improved English Atlas (1807)., On verso: Blank

: New Map of Indostan or East Indies; Appeared in Millar’s New and Universal System of Geography (1782-1785), On verso: Blank

: New Map of Persia; Appeared in Millar’s New and Universal System of Geography (1782-1785), On verso: Blank

: Nobilis Hannoniae Comitatus Descrip.; Based on an unpublished 1548 map by Jacques Surhon; included in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum., On verso: Text: Hannonia

: Northumberland; Appeared in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure and later in Lauire & Whittle’s New and Improved English Atlas (1807)., On verso: Handwritten note

: Nottinghamshire; Appeared in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure and later in Lauire & Whittle’s New and Improved English Atlas (1807)., On verso: Handwritten note

: Nova Asiae e tabula majori in minorem hanc formam reducta; Appeared in Johann David Köhler’s Bequemer Schul- und Reise-Atlas (1719), On verso: Blank

: Nova Europae Descriptio; Issued separately rather than as part of an atlas., On verso: Blank

: Nova Orbis Tabula; De Wit received his privilege in 1689 and the reference letters in the borders of the themispheres were added in 1690. The dotted borders in North America were added after 1697., On verso: Blank

: Nova Totius Americae Descriptio; Issued separately rather than as part of an atlas. The first state of the map includes the date 1660 underneath the title, so this is a later state of the map, possibly the second or third., On verso: Blank

: Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula; A scaled down version of a wall map also printed by Blaeu., On verso: Text: "Die ganze Welt"

: Novissima totius Europae in suos principaliores Status accurate divisae repraesentatio; Appeared in Weigel’s Atlas Scholastichodoeporicus (first published 1706). Color-coded by religious denomination., On verso: Blank

: Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium; Later editions of the map were also printed by Seutter's son-in-law and successor, Tobias Conrad Lotter., On verso: Handwritten note

: Orbis Terrarum Tabula; Appeared in Visscher's Bible, On verso: Text: "Kort en klaer vertoogh der Landtschappen des Werelts"

: Presbiteri Johannis, sive, Abissinorum imperi descriptio; Scan specification: Indus Color Book Scanner 5005 ; 600 dpi ; color ; TIFF ; lzw compression Scan date: February 2019. Original held in University Libraries Special Collections. Date estimated from New York Public Library record.

: South America; Appeared in Millar’s New and Universal System of Geography (1782-1785), On verso: Blank

: South America; Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon was made up of Jonah Nuttall (died 1837), Henry Fisher (1781-1837), and Dixon (died 1818). Fisher continued the business in Liverpool after Nuttall retired in 1818 as "Fisher, Son, & Co." until 1821, when a fire destroyed his Caxton shop. He then relocated to London, where the business was carried on until 1848 under the direction of one of his sons., On verso: Handwritten note

: Summa Europae Antiquae Descriptio; Appeared in Clüver’s Introductionis in Universam geographicam, first published in Leiden in 1624., On verso: Blank

: The Kingdome of England; A version of this map engraved by Jocodus Hondius appeared in John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611) but was re-engraved later by Goos., On verso: Text: The Type of the Flourishing kingdom of England, with the General Description of it, as it was from the time of the Normans