What I Collect and Why: Gallery of Maps

 California Map Society  

Occasional Paper   No 11

This keepsake was presented with the generous support of Glen and Ellen McLaughlin in celebration of the acquisition of The Glen McLaughlin Collection of California as an Island and published by Stanford University Libraries. Designed and produced by Marianne deVere Hinckle, Año Nuevo Island Press, 2012. Julie Sweetkind Singer, general editor; maps scanned courtesy of the Stanford University Libraries technical team. Quote from Ina Coolbrith's poem "California" published by John Henry Nash, 1918, courtesy Marianne Hinckle Library.

Imagery from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection courtesy of the Stanford University Libraries.
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The maps from Occasional Paper No. 11 are displayed below as larger images and in higher resolution. You may see even larger images by clicking on any of the maps below. To see the full paper, click here.

Pieter Goos, Nova Granada and the island of California, Amsterdam, 1666

Heinrich Scherer, Geographia Artificiosa (title page), Munich, 1702.

Antonio de Herrera, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis (title page), Amsterdam, 1622.

Vicenzo Maria Coronelli, L’Amerique Septentrionale, Paris, 1689.

Vicenzo Maria Coronelli, Le Nouveau Mexique, Paris, 1688.

Andreas Cellarius, Scenographia Systematis Copernicani from the Celestial Atlas of
Universal Harmony, Amsterdam, 1660.

Nicolas Sanson, Audience de Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, & c., Paris, 1656.

Sokichi Hashimoto, (detail showing western hemisphere), The Complete map of the whole new World, newly translated from Dutch sources, Kyoto, 1796.

Pierre, Moullart-Sanson, Planisphere Urano-Geographique, Paris, 1695?.

Thomas Burnet, America, London, 1681.

Louis Renard, (title page) Planisphere Representant toute L’Etendue Du Monde,
Amsterdam, 1715.