The following maps are missing from the collection of Houghton Library, Harvard University.  Anyone with information that may lead to the recovery of any of the three maps is asked to contact William Stoneman, Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, at 617-495-2441 or e-mail.

[Map of New England and New France] in Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimes in Five Bookes, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1625. This map, by Sir William Alexander, is one of the earliest to show Cape Cod and marks the St. Lawrence River as the Great River of Canada.

Citation: Burden The Mapping of North America: a list of printed maps, 151-1670, No.208; Schwartz and Ehrenberg The Mapping of America, plate 54.

“Nova et integra Vniversi orbis description” [by Oronce Fine] in Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis libri tres Paris: Jean Roigny, 1540. This is State 4 of Fine’s double cordiform world map.

Citation: Shirley The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps, 1472-1700, No. 66.

“Carte Geographiqve de la Novvelle Franse faictte par le Sievr de Champlain” in Samuel de Champlain, Les voyages … Pars, 1613. This is the first map to indicate a chain of Great Lakes and the first to show Lake Champlain and Montreal.

Citation: Burden The Mapping of North America: a list of printed maps, 1511-1670, No. 160 and Schwartz and Ehrenberg The Mapping of America, plate 46.