Ancient Maps, Library of Congress

A new and correct map of the world : laid down according to the newest...

Relief shown pictorially. Insets: The northern hemisphere upon the plane of the Equinoctial -- The northern coelestial hemisphere -- A projection of ye world upon equidistant meridians and parallels -- The nort... More

Peruuiae avriferæ regionis typus /, Abraham Ortelius

Shows portion of Central America, northwestern South America, southern United States, and coast of Tamaulipas in Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Theatrum orbis terrarum. Includes ill. ... More

L'Asie : dresée sur les observations de l'Academie Royale des Sciences...

Relief shown pictorially. Note: Advertissement - Comme il y a plusieurs choses sur cette carte et sur les autres que j'ay mises au jour qui sont differentes de ce qui se trouve sur les cartes qui ont paru jus q... More

[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 15...

The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the citie... More

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

Gvinea propia, nec non Nigritiæ vel Terræ Nigrorvm maxima pars : geogr...

Covers West Africa from Gabon in the south to Niger, Mali, and Mauritania in the north. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image... More

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain old map

Covers land and territory in Quanzhou Prefecture. Shows cities, towns, and military posts in Quanzhou fu. Title supplied. Previous supplied title: Quanzhou fu tu shuo. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also... More

Sunshū fuchū oshiro no zu. - Public domain old map

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows the plan, and the layout of the Sunpujō castle in Shizuoka-shi, Japan. Ms. the copier and the date not known. Title from title piece mounted on cover. "Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku zō... More

Venezuela, cum parte Auftrali Novae Andalausiae.

Place names in Spanish. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 2 copies; 1 copy as of 07/27/98 Vault

A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into cou...

Shows rural landholders' names and lots in Philadelphia, Chester, and Bucks Counties. First issue. From the Rosenwald Collection, no. 1308. Includes indexes of landholders, inset of "The City of Philadelphia, t... More

A new map of South America, shewing it's general divisions, chief citi...

Reino do Algarve. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Laurent Sculp." Probably from Atlas accompanying LaHarpe, J.F.D. de: Abrege de histoire general des voyages, Nouvelle ed., Paris, E. Ledoux, 1820, G160, L19, cf. Philips, n. 591. Available also through the Lib... More

[Map of Mexico City and environs, showing some buildings] / Samuel Est...

Engraving by Samuel Estradanus. Illus. in: Diego Cisneros' Sitio, naturaleza y propriedades dela Ciudad de Mexico (1618). Reference copy may be in Geog. File (Graphics) Mexico Mexico City. This record contains ... More

Nova totivs Americæ descriptio. - Public domain old map

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault

A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hierony...

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Each double-page illumination (col. diagrs., col. maps) 21 x 29 cm. Compass rose on inside back cover. "Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America. No. 1 shows the Gulf of... More

[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas with the west coas...

Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title devised by cataloguer. Fragmentary signature on upper right portion leading into neck reads "Io Placid...". Oriented with north to the right (in... More

Europae. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with dedicaton and text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper a... More

America. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Described in: The mapping of North America / Philip D. Burden. 1996. p. 165. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

[Map of SE Asia, Dutch East Indies, & Philippines]

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Jean Boisseau - America noviter delineata / Historic map, Library of C...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes insets of north and south polar regions. Acquisitions control no. 3-85

Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala.

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Ogilby's America and Montanus' De nieuwe en onbekende weerld. 1671. Phillips, Maps of America, pp. 404 and 405. Ogilby, John, America, pp. 238-239. Available also through th... More

Descripción del Río Tigris desde Canton hasta la Ysla de Lankeet.

Relief shown pictorially and by shading and form lines. Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: J. Honig & Zoonen; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis over the characters JH & Z. Watermark dated from 1737-87. Pen-and-in... More

Typus generalis Ukrainæ : sive Palatinatuum Podoliæ, Kioviensis et Bra...

Covers palatinates that are now part of central and southern Ukraine (at the time a part of the Russian Empire previously acquired by military conquest from the Ottoman Empire). Relief shown pictorially. In Lat... More

Switzerland and the country of the Grisons : wherein is described the ...

A new and accurate map of New Jersey, Pensilvania, New York and New En...

Relief shown pictorially. From the author's A complete system of geography. 1747. Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "No. 100." Vault AACR2

Cartes et plans de l'Amerique. - Public domain old map

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de noua maris oceani Hyspania narratio...

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Le Bresil. Historic map, Library of Congress

From his 1658 (i.e. 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (Phillips 4260). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

America Settentrionale colle nuoue scoperte fin al'anno 1688, diuisa n...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island. Appears in the author's Atlante veneto, 1691-1697. Includes notes and illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ... More

Carte ancienne et moderne de l'Irlande, avec quelques remarques sur so...

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A new & exact map of the coast, countries and islands within ye limit...

A new and exact map of the dominions of the King of Great Britain on y...

Scale ca. 1:3,600,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Imprint date from Henry Stevens and Roland Tree's Comparative cartography, item 55c. Includes descriptive text. Insets: A v... More

Cartes et plans de l'Amerique. - Public domain old map

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Novvs atlas Sinensis. Historic map, Library of Congress

Covers 16 provinces of China, Korea, and Japan. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text. Philips 3186 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. On verso of shelflist card: At th... More

A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 15...

The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the citie... More

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

[Sichuan, Hubei shui dao tu]. - Public domain old map

Scale not given. Title supplied. Previous supplied title: Min Jiang tu shuo. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Hummel purchase 1934, no. 4. Shows the waterways and points of interest of Min and Yangtze R... More

Russischer Atlas, welcher in einer general-Charte und neunzehen specia...

Relief shown pictorially. Text in German. Maps titles in Latin and place names in Russian in the Latin alphabet. Engraved maps. Prepared under the direction of Ivan Kirilov and, from 1726, Joseph Nicolas Delisl... More

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain old map

Covers land and territory in Quanzhou Prefecture. Shows cities, towns, and military posts in Quanzhou fu. Title supplied. Previous supplied title: Quanzhou fu tu shuo. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also... More

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain old map

Covers land and territory in Quanzhou Prefecture. Shows cities, towns, and military posts in Quanzhou fu. Title supplied. Previous supplied title: Quanzhou fu tu shuo. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also... More

S. Augustini : pars est terra Florida, sub latitudine 30 grad, ora ver...

Scale not given. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Includes text in rectanglar cartouche. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 49 Available also through the Library of Congres... More

Partie meridionale de l'Inde en deux presqu'isles l'une de ç̧à et l'au...

Shows India south of the tropic of Cancer and Southeast Asia, including Indochina, Sumatra, and western Borneo. Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates given from an unidentified prime meridian. Appears in his Ca... More

Johann Baptist Homann - Ducatus Luxemburgi. Historic map, Library of C...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. 2 copies. Vault

Plano de la Ia. y Pto. de Sta. Cathalina en la costa del Brasil sitdo....

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermark: I. Honig & Zoonen. Watermark dated from 1737-87. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted o... More

Guillaume Sanson - Le royaume de France.

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L'Ancienne Thebaide, ou, la Carta generale des lieux habitez par les S...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes two illustrations and text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

L'expedition d'Alexandre : pour l'Histoire Ancienne de Mr. Rollin /

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Recentissima Asiae delineatio, qua imperia, ejus, regna, et status, un...

Includes text: Benevole Spectator (Kindly observer) / by Johann Baptist Homann. From: Schul-atlas. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Tōkaidō bunkenzu : 1-bu o motte 1-chō ni ateru.

Shows road between Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Title from title piece mounted on scroll. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Orientation varies. Worm holes in the map. Stamped on: Kan... More

Tōkaidō bunkenzu : 1-bu o motte 1-chō ni ateru.

Shows road between Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Title from title piece mounted on scroll. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Orientation varies. Worm holes in the map. Stamped on: Kan... More

Cartes et plans de l'Amerique. - Public domain old map

Cartes et plans de l'Amerique. - Public domain old map

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Cartes et plans de l'Amerique. - Public domain old map

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A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish set...

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A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, 1684-1709 : [Euro...

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