with the augmentation of the Indies”) to the “curious little round-face shaped map” in Wytfliet’s _Ptolemæum Augmentum_, 1597. The Molineaux-Wright map has gained reputation from Hallam’s reference to it in his _Literature of Europe_ as “the best map of the sixteenth century.” It is now accessible in the autotype reproduction which was made by Mr. Quaritch from the Grenville copy of Hakluyt’s _Principall Navigations_ in the British Museum, and which accompanies the Hakluyt Society’s edition of _Davis’s Voyages_. There are nine copies of the map known, as follows: 1. King’s Library. 2. Grenville Library. 3. Cracherode Copy. (These three are in the British Museum.) 4. Admiralty Office. 5. Lenox Library, New York. 6. University of Cambridge. 7. Christie Miller’s Collection. 8. Middle Temple. 9. A copy in Quaritch’s Catalogue, 1881, no. 340, title-number, 6235, which had previously appeared in the Stevens sale, _Hist. Collections_, i. 199. Quaritch held the Hakluyt (3 vols.) with this genuine map at £156, and it is said no other copy had been sold since the Bright sale. It may be noted that Blundeville, who in his _Exercises_, pp. 204-42, describes the Mercator and Molineaux globes, also, pp. 245-78, gives a long account of a mappamundi by Peter Plancius, dated 1592, of which Linschoten, in 1594, gives a reduction. =G.= MODERN COLLECTIONS OF EARLY MAPS.—The collections of reproductions of the older maps, showing portions of the American coast, and representing what may be termed the beginnings of modern cartography, are the following:— JOMARD, E. F. _Les Monuments de la Géographie._ Paris, 1866. The death of Jomard in 1862 (see Memoir by M. de la Roquette, in _Bulletin de la Soc. Géog._ February, 1863, or 5th ser. v. 81, with a portrait; Cortambert’s _Vie et Œuvres de Jomard_, Paris, 1868, 20 pages; and _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, iv. 232, vi. 334) prevented the completion by him of the text which he intended should accompany the plates. M. D’Avezac’s intention to supply it was likewise stayed by his death, in 1875. It proved, however, that Jomard had left behind what he had meant for an introduction to the text; and this was printed in a pamphlet at Paris in 1879, as _Introduction à l’Atlas des Monuments de la Géographie_, edited by E. Cortambert. It is a succinct account of the progress of cartography before the times of Mercator and Ortelius. The atlas contains five maps, of great interest in connection with American discovery:— The Frankfort Globe, _circa_ 1520. Juan de la Cosa’s map, 1500. The Cabot map of 1544. A French map, made for Henri II. Behaim’s Globe, 1492. These reproductions are of the size of the original. Good copies are worth £10 10_s._