Nine ACMLA Historical Cartography Facsimile Maps -

Updated September 18, 2026

A substantial and highly decorative nine-piece collection from the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives Historical Facsimile Map Series, bringing together celebrated landmarks of Renaissance, Golden Age, Enlightenment and Victorian cartography spanning source maps from 1565 to 1851. Individually custom framed under glass in handsome traditional gilt frames with coordinated burgundy, rose and complementary matting, the collection has exceptional presence as a unified cartographic display while encompassing subjects of particular interest to collectors of antique map imagery, Canadian history, Arctic exploration, early America, Toronto history and world cartography.<br><br>The collection comprises ACMLA No. 51, Paolo Forlani and Ferrando Bertelli, Universale Descrittione di Tutta la Terra Conosciuta, after the important 1565 Venetian world map; No. 109, Gerard Mercator, Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio, after the landmark 1595 Arctic polar map; No. 106, Jodocus Hondius, America, after the richly engraved circa 1606 map of North and South America; No. 105, Pierre Mortier, Mappe-monde Geo-Hydrographique, after the circa 1700 double-hemisphere world map; No. 150, Pieter van der Aa, Planisphere Terrestre, after the 1713 polar projection; No. 55, William Keith, A New and Correct Map of America, 1738, distinguished by its dramatic colonial-era representation of the Americas, decorative cartouche, inset polar projection and period imagery; No. 133, George-Louis Le Rouge, Mappe Monde Nouvelle Dediee A Monseigneur le Comte de Maurepas, after the 1744 world map; No. 100, J. & F. Tallis, British America, after the celebrated 1851 Victorian map associated with John Rapkin and the Tallis Illustrated Atlas tradition; and No. 44, Sandford A. Fleming, Topographical Plan of the City of Toronto, 1851, an especially desirable subject for collectors of early Toronto, Ontario and Canadian urban history. These titles, cartographers and dates correspond with the Association's published facsimile-map catalogue.<br><br>Particularly compelling is the breadth of major cartographic names represented. Mercator and Hondius stand among the defining figures of early modern mapmaking; Forlani belongs to the celebrated Venetian school of the 16th century; Pieter van der Aa, Pierre Mortier and Le Rouge represent the sophisticated European map trade of the late 17th and 18th centuries; and the Tallis and Fleming maps extend the collection into important 19th-century British North American and Canadian material. The Fleming source is especially significant locally: Library and Archives Canada records the 1851 Topographical Plan of the City of Toronto as drawn and compiled by Sandford A. Fleming from the survey of J. Stoughton Dennis, incorporating the Toronto harbour and architectural views of prominent public buildings and churches.<br><br>The Tallis British America is likewise a particularly marketable inclusion for Canadian and Arctic collectors. The original 1851

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