Rare Books: The National Library of Canada has mounted a new web site with Early Images of Canada: Illustrations from Rare Books.
"This website hosts 550 searchable images (mostly engravings) from the National Library of Canada's Rare Book Collection. All of the images are taken from books, often exploration or missionary narratives, published before the year 1800. These particular images have been selected because they depict geography that is now part of Canada or events that are significant in Canadian history."
There are 65 books - browse the list and select. The Browse by Subject is merely by alphabet. A true subject display would have been much better.
Posted by Gwen at March 9, 2003 12:10 PM