Centre for Newfoundland Studies

Notable rare items

• William Cormack's 1822 of the interior of Newfoundland with his hand written notes and route.
• Ramusio of 1556, a navigation chart created in Venice for explorers sailing along the Newfoundland coast.
• A 27-page poem by George Cartwright written in 1792 entitled Labrador: A Political Epistle. One of the first pieces of poetry known to be written about Labrador.
• Robert Hayman's , a call for Englishmen and women to colonize Newfoundland. Composed at Bristol's Hope in the 1620s, it is considered the first work of literature written in the New World.
• Book by William Vaughan entitled written in 1626 in which he talks about his attempt to colonize the Southern Avalon from Calvert to Placentia Bay and Trepassey. The book also contains the 1617 by John Mason.
• Hoppin's diary kept while with the Peary Arctic expedition of 1896.
• Waldseemüller's Tabula Terra Nova, the first separate printed of the Americas and thus the first to use the term 'America'.
• Jukes' Excursions in and about Newfoundland during the years 1839 and 1840 ;