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XVII Century Maps

Birth of modern maps.Created by: LOC's Public Domain ArchiveDated: 1700
Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula / - Public domain map
In the 17th century, maps took a huge leap forward. Mathematical and astronomical knowledge necessary to make accurate measurements had evolved. English mathematicians had perfected triangulation: navigation and surveying by right-angled triangles. Triangulation allowed navigators to set accurate courses and produced accurate land surveys. Seamen learned to correct their compasses for declination and had determined the existence of annual compass variation.

Latitude determination was greatly improved with the John Davis quadrant. The measurement of distance sailed at sea was improved by another English invention, the common log. Longitudinal distance between Europe and Québec was determined by solar and lunar eclipses by the Jesuit Bressani in the 1640s and by Jean Deshayes in 1686. With accurate surveys in Europe, the grid of the modern map began to take shape.
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[Terrestrial globe gores]. Historic map, Library of Congress

[Terrestrial globe gores]. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. Reissued by Giuseppe di Rossi in 1615. Dedication in upper hemisphere: Illmo. viro optimaraq. artium amatori et Fautori D. Paulo Mellino Romano ... In lowe... More

[Map of Virginia] / discovered and discribed [sic] by Captain John Smith 1606 [?] William Hole.

[Map of Virginia] / discovered and discribed [sic] by Captain John Smi...

1606 map of Virginia as described by John Smith showing the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River, other geographic features, and a vignette of the Native leader, Powhatan, in council. Illus. in: The generall historie ... More

A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye hills, and in it's latt. from 35 deg. & 1/2 neer Florida to 41 deg. bounds of New England /

A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye hills, and in it's latt. from 35 d...

Relief shown pictorially. Based on a manuscript map drawn by John Farrer. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, portrait of ... More

Virginia and Maryland as it is planted and inhabited this present year 1670 /

Virginia and Maryland as it is planted and inhabited this present year...

Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes cartouche, portait of Augustine Herrman, text, and ill. Vault

Plan of the Naval-yard at Halifax - Public domain map

Plan of the Naval-yard at Halifax - Public domain map

Scale 1:720; 60 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Indexed for points of interest. LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-17... More

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

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

Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus

Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus

Includes illustrations of the seasons and the elements, notes, and two celestial hemispheres. Illustrations of costumes: Hispani -- Galli -- Itali -- Germani -- Angli -- Belgae -- Groenlandi -- Chinenses -- Jav... More

Jean Boisseau - Africae nova tabula / Historic map, Library of Congress

Jean Boisseau - Africae nova tabula / Historic map, Library of Congres...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes watermark. Acquisitions control no. 6-85

Neue Land Tafel von Hungarn : und dessenincorporirten Königreichen und Provinzen

Neue Land Tafel von Hungarn : und dessenincorporirten Königreichen und...

Map of Hungary and adjacent parts of the Danube River Valley showing populated places occupied by the Turkish invaders and places remaining Christian (unoccupied). Covers the Danube River Valley from Vienna (up... More

Mappa mondo o vero carta generale del globo terestre : rapresentato in due planisferi è nouamente coretta e in piu parte aumentata secondo le relatione piu recente

Mappa mondo o vero carta generale del globo terestre : rapresentato in...

LC copy lightly hand colored, showing political boundaries only. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Europe. Historic map, Library of Congress

Europe. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son in Cornhil, & Robt. Sayer in Fleetstreet." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

A map of Asia : with its principal divisions /

A map of Asia : with its principal divisions /

Relief shown pictorially. "Longitude East from Ferro I." Includes table: Methodical divisions of Asia. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Yŏji yoram. Historic map, Library of Congress

Yŏji yoram. Historic map, Library of Congress

Romanized. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga37 2010-12--22 天下地圖 -- 中國地圖 -- 朝鮮八道圖 -- 京畿道 -- 忠清道 -- 全羅道 -- 慶尚道 -- 江原道 -- 咸鏡道 -- 平安道 -- 黄海道 -- 日本國圖 -- 琉球國圖.

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain dedication image

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain dedication image

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

Orbis terrae novissima descriptio, Jodocus Hondius

Orbis terrae novissima descriptio, Jodocus Hondius

Includes two wind charts, compass rose, lunar chart, climatic zones, armillary sphere, notes and illustrations In upper right corner: I. LC copy mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

[A portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent continents].

[A portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent continents].

Also shows the southeast Pacific Ocean, the southwest Indian Ocean, as well as the continents of South America, Africa, Europe, and portions of North America and Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied b... More

Insvlæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adjacentibus

Insvlæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adjacentibus

Sheet removed from German ed. of W.J. Blaeu's atlas: Atlas novus, Amsterdam, 1634. Map redesigned from a portion of Blaeu's larger map of North America printed ca. 1630. Has vertical fold line at center of shee... More

[Map of California shown as an island].

[Map of California shown as an island].

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

La Floride / Historic map, Library of Congress

La Floride / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coastline from Secotan in Virginia to Planuco in Mexico; the interior is shown to 40 degrees of latitude north and includes lakes and rivers in the region. Prime meridian: [F... More

Terra sancta sive promissionis, olim Palestina recens delineata, et in lucem edita per Nicolaum Visscher

Terra sancta sive promissionis, olim Palestina recens delineata, et in...

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Nicolaes Visscher's Atlas contractus orbis terrarum. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Includes inset showing the twelve... More

Nowel Amsterdam en Lameriqve : 1672 /

Nowel Amsterdam en Lameriqve : 1672 /

Bird's-eye view of Lisbon, Portugal (not New Amsterdam) showing individual buildings and place-names in French. Map based on: Braun, George, 1540 or 41-1622. Civitates orbis terrarum, [1612-1618] Vol. 5, Olissi... More

Mediterranean Sea divided into its Principall parts or seas.

Mediterranean Sea divided into its Principall parts or seas.

Based on La Mer Mediterraneʹe divisee enses Principales Parties, ou Mers by Nicolas Sanson. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Totius Africæ accuratissima tabula /

Totius Africæ accuratissima tabula /

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

To Capt. John Wood this map of the world, drawn according to Mercators projection, is humbly dedicated

To Capt. John Wood this map of the world, drawn according to Mercators...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island. Includes the name "Pensilvania", so is a second state issued after 1682. Includes illustrations, north polar hemisphere, two compass roses and rhumb line... More

Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis avstralis. qve est  : Brasilia, Caribana, Gviana regnũm noũũm, Castilia del Oro, Nicaragva, insũlae Antillas et Perv. Et sub Tropico Capricorni, Chile, Rio della Plata, Patagonṽ, & Fretṽ Magellanicv̄.

Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis avstralis. qve est : Brasil...

Title appears on upper sheet of the map; no indication of title or imprint on lower sheet. The map was engraved for the second edition of the fourth part of Hulsius' collection of voyages, which consists of 26 ... More

La Russie Noire ou Polonaise : qui comprend les provinces de la Russie Noire de Volhynie et de Podolie divisées en leurs palatinats : vulgairement connües sous le nom d'Vkraine ou Pays de Cosaques /

La Russie Noire ou Polonaise : qui comprend les provinces de la Russie...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes legend titled "Remarques" and 9 bar scales. LC copy annotated in ink, laminated, and mounted on clot... More

Wu bei zhi / Historic map, Library of Congress

Wu bei zhi / Historic map, Library of Congress

Wood block print. "Juan 240" shows Zheng He's voyager route from Nanjing, passing through South East Asia, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, all the way to Persian Gulf. Early Qing Dynasty ed., prefaced Tianqi 1 (1621). J... More

New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland

New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland

Relief shown pictorially. Title provided by cataloger. LC copy mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A mapp of the travels and voyages of the apostles in their mission and in partiular of Saint Paul.

A mapp of the travels and voyages of the apostles in their mission and...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes scenes of apostles at bottom of sheet. Attributed to Richard Blome. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Available also throu... More

Plano de Puerto Belo cituado en la costa del N. de Trra. Firme en la latd. N. de 9 gs. 18 ms. y en longd. de 294 gs. 45 ms. segun el merido. de Tenerife.

Plano de Puerto Belo cituado en la costa del N. de Trra. Firme en la l...

Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermark: D. & C. Blauw. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 665 Available also through the Library of Congress We... More

Plano de la Bahía del Guantánamo en la costa del S. de la ysla de Cuba cituado en la latd. N. de 20 gs. y en longd. de 301⁰27ʹ segn. Tene.

Plano de la Bahía del Guantánamo en la costa del S. de la ysla de Cuba...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the left. Watermark: J. Honig & Zoonen. Watermark dated from 1737-1787. Pen-and-ink and green and pink water... More

Plano de la Bahía del Guantánamo en la costa del sur de la ysla de Cuba situdao en la latd. de 20 gros. norte y en la longd. de 301 go. y 27 minutos segun el meridiano de Thenerife.

Plano de la Bahía del Guantánamo en la costa del sur de la ysla de Cub...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the right. Watermarks: Cross on top of the characters IHS; and, I. Villedary. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Mounte... More

Regni et insulæ Hiberniæ delineatio in qua sont Lagenia, Ultonia, Connachia et Momonia provenciæ.

Regni et insulæ Hiberniæ delineatio in qua sont Lagenia, Ultonia, Conn...

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

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

[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

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

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.

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

Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula - Public domain map

Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula - Public domain map

Relief shown pictorially. Includes two ancillary polar hemispheres and illustrations. LC copy foldlined, with three pin holes in lower margin. Hand coloring to delineate continental boundaries only. Shirley, Ro... More

Fac-simile of Holmes-map of the province of Pennsylvania : with the names of the original purchasers from William Penn, begun in 1681.

Fac-simile of Holmes-map of the province of Pennsylvania : with the na...

Shows rural landholders' names and lots in the Philadelphia region. Alternate title at top: A map of the improved part of the province of Pennsylvania in America : begun by William Penn, proprietor and governor... More

Plano de la Bahía de la Compcessión de Chile situado en los 36 gros. 40 ms. latd. S. y en la longd. de 297 gros. 40 ms. mro. de Thenerife.

Plano de la Bahía de la Compcessión de Chile situado en los 36 gros. 4...

Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 215 Available also through the Library of Cong... More

Plano de la Bahía de Ocoa - Public domain vintage map

Plano de la Bahía de Ocoa - Public domain vintage map

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. Indexed. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 390 Available also through the Library of Congress W... More

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

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

Plano del Puerto de Plata situado en la costa del norte de la Ysla de Sto. Domingo en la latd. de 19 gs. 43 ms. N. y en la longd. de 306 gs. 18 ms. segun el merido. de Tenerife.

Plano del Puerto de Plata situado en la costa del norte de la Ysla de ...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermark: D. & C. Blauw. Pen-and-ink and green, red, and yellow watercolors. Mounted on cloth b... More

Plano del Puerto de Nipe situado en la costa del N. de la de la [sic] ya. de la Havana en la latd. de 21 gs. 10 ms. sepc. y en la longd. de 301 gs. 33 ms. segn. el meridio. de Thenerife.

Plano del Puerto de Nipe situado en la costa del N. de la de la [sic] ...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the right. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 333 Available also through the Lib... More

John Smith - Virginia / Historic map, Library of Congress

John Smith - Virginia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Sixth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Accompanied by 2 exhibit notes and LC jacket note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Amérique septentrionale Historic map, Library of Congress

Amérique septentrionale Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Prime meridian: [Paris]. From his 1658 (i.e. 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (Phillips 4260). Second state: Lake Ontario contains shading along bor... More

Provincia d[e] S. Diego de Mexico en la nueba España tiene 14 co[n]ventos y desde el d[e] Oaxaca que esta en 17 gra[do]s ael le sueste hasta el de Aguas Calie[n]tes que esta en 22 al norueste ay de distancia 160 leguas : por el oriente co[n]fina con el obispado de la Puebla y Oaxaca, por el poniente co[n] el Obispado de Michoacan y Guadalaxara, por norte y sur con el Arzobispado de Mexico /

Provincia d[e] S. Diego de Mexico en la nueba España tiene 14 co[n]ven...

Bird's-eye view. Relief shown pictorially. In upper border: Nova delineatio s[t]rictissimæ, S. Didaci Provinciæ in Nova Hispania. Accompanied by paper pulls of recto and verso of the cooperplate. ([2] leaves : ... More

Plano del Puerto e Ysla de Sancta Catalina en la costa del Brasil cituada su mediania en la latitud de 27 gs. 42 minutos S. y longitu de 327 gs. 40 minute. del meridiano de Tenerife.

Plano del Puerto e Ysla de Sancta Catalina en la costa del Brasil citu...

Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Pen-and-ink and red ink. Mounted on cloth backing. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 76. Includes ind... More

Mappe-monde, dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academie royale des sciences et quelques autres et sur les memoires les plus recens

Mappe-monde, dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academie royale ...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows nautical exploration routes. Includes illustrated cartouche. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Map of Lesser Antilles]. - Public domain vintage map

[Map of Lesser Antilles]. - Public domain vintage map

Depths shown by soundings. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other maps in Henry Harrisse collection. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web sit... More

Carta esférica que compde. una pte. del Archipielago de los Galapagos desde 1⁰ 35 ms. de latd. sept. hasta 1⁰ de la meridional reconocidos por la Fragta. Sta. Gertrudiz del man[?] del Capitan de Navio. Dn. Alonso de Torres y Guerra desde el dia 18 de marzo hasta el 21 del mismo levantada segn. los puntos de latd. qe. le observn. en a quellos obras ...

Carta esférica que compde. una pte. del Archipielago de los Galapagos ...

Also shows routes of expeditions. Pen-and-ink and red ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 413 Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 135. Available also through the Library o... More

Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / nautical chart

Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / nautical chart

Relief shown pictorially. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 8 Orientation varies. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Preface (4 p.) and last map created and added in 1692 by Don Francisco de Seixas y Lovera. Some staining and ... More

Typvs orbis terrarvm Historic map, Library of Congress

Typvs orbis terrarvm Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 19-85 Vault

Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ nec non partis Virginiæ tabula : multis in locis emendata

Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ nec non partis Virginiæ tabula : multis in ...

Covers New England and Middle Atlantic region southward to Hampton Roads. Shows colony names, colonial town names, and names of Amerindian tribes. Relief shown pictorially. Meridians numbered 297 to 312 from we... More

Johann Baptist Homann - Imperium Romano-Germanicum. Historic map, Library of Congress

Johann Baptist Homann - Imperium Romano-Germanicum. Historic map, Libr...

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

A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact: Yet doth it sufficiently show the situation of the country & conveniently well the distances of places

A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done...

Scale ca. 1:900,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. "This is a copy of the first map engraved in New England. Taken from one in Hubbard's Narrative of the t... More

[Map showing Trinidad Island and adjacent coast of Venezuela].

[Map showing Trinidad Island and adjacent coast of Venezuela].

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Watermark: PVL [Pieter van Ley] in 1 character. Black, red, and yellow inks. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 808 Available also through the... More

An exact draught of the island of New Providence one of the Bahama Islands in the West Indies.

An exact draught of the island of New Providence one of the Bahama Isl...

Scale ca. 1:50,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1... More

Plano de las Yslas Malvinas, situado en la latitud sur de 51 grados 28 minutos y en 319 grados 30 minutos lamas leste segun el mro. de Thenerife, arreglado a los ultimos reconosimientos echos en ellas por mar y tierra, de orden de su Gobernador Dn. Felipe Ruis Puente.

Plano de las Yslas Malvinas, situado en la latitud sur de 51 grados 28...

Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermark: French imitation of Genoese watermark [?]; CA in the middle circle and I in the lower circle. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 4... More

Canaan, or The Land of promise. - Public domain old map

Canaan, or The Land of promise. - Public domain old map

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

A map of Rariton River, Milstone River, South River ... (1685)

A map of Rariton River, Milstone River, South River ... (1685)

Bibliographic information on back reprinted. Stokes called this "the first known copperplate made in America." (v. 6 plate 84, opp. p. 60). This was disproved by Wroth. Map was engraved in England. Available al... More

[Yŏjido]. Historic map, Library of Congress

[Yŏjido]. Historic map, Library of Congress

Romanized. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga37 2007-12-03

The figure of the World. - Public domain vintage map

The figure of the World. - Public domain vintage map

In upper right corner: p. 2. includes text and 4 diagrams. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy has red-bordered label affixed to verso, with 516/1 written in ink. ... More

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nouvlle. Gallice, Iucatan &c. : et autres provinces jusques a l'Isthme de Panama, ou sont les Audiences de Mexico, de Guadalaiara, et de Guatimala /

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nouvlle. Gallice, Iucatan &c. : et autr...

Appeared in Sanson's Cartes générales de la géographie ... 1676. Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 486 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Partie septentr, le du royaume d'Irlande, ou sont la province d'Ulster, et partie des prov.ces [sic] de Leinster, et Connaugh.

Partie septentr, le du royaume d'Irlande, ou sont la province d'Ulster...

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

Novissima totius terrarum orbis tabula

Novissima totius terrarum orbis tabula

Shows California as an island. Includes illustrations, including scenes of the four seasons. Ancillary maps and charts: Incrementum et decrementum dierū -- Phasis lunae naturalis -- Hypothesis Tychonican -- Hyp... More

[Chart of the Mediterranean, the coast of Portugal, and the northwest coast of Africa] /

[Chart of the Mediterranean, the coast of Portugal, and the northwest ...

Title devised by cataloguer. Oriented with north to the right. Contains 16 wind roses. Creator could be Giovanni Battista Cavallini, his son Pietro, or the Cavallini workshop. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 20. ... More

Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula /

Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula /

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Atlas minor. Amsterdam, 1690? Includes ancillary maps of north polar region and south polar region and col. ill. Mounted on cloth. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined... More

Mappe-monde, dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academie royale des sciences et quelques autres et sur les memoires les plus recens

Mappe-monde, dressé sur les observations de mrs. de l'Academie royale ...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations and 4 small hemispherical polar projections. Appears in Sanson's Atlas nouveau. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. French... More

Planisphaerii coelestis hemisphaerium meridionale : calculatum ad finem anni MDCC, pro aevo XVIII praesente /

Planisphaerii coelestis hemisphaerium meridionale : calculatum ad fine...

Shows hemispheric view with signs of the Zodiac and the constellations shown picorially. "Cum Privilegio Pontissimorum D D Ordinum Hollandiae et Westfrisiae". Appears in: Atlas nouveau contenant toutes les part... More

New England. Historic map, Library of Congress

New England. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Carte vniverselle du commerce, c'est à dire carte hidrographique, où sont exactement decrites les costes des 4 parties du monde, avecque les routes pour la navigation des Indes occidentales et orientales

Carte vniverselle du commerce, c'est à dire carte hidrographique, où s...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations of ships on trade routes. Shows California as an island. LC copy foldlined. Stamped on verso: 6849. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 364 Available also throug... More

Guillaume Sanson - Carte nouvelle de la mer mediterranee.

Guillaume Sanson - Carte nouvelle de la mer mediterranee.

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

[Map of northeastern coast of Venezuela including Trinidad and Tobago Islands].

[Map of northeastern coast of Venezuela including Trinidad and Tobago ...

Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: IV, J. Kool, and Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and yellow ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 988 Available also through the Library of Congress W... More

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

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.

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

Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / nautical chart

Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / nautical chart

Relief shown pictorially. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 8 Orientation varies. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Preface (4 p.) and last map created and added in 1692 by Don Francisco de Seixas y Lovera. Some staining and ... More

[Aihun, Luosha, Taiwan, Nei Menggu tu]

[Aihun, Luosha, Taiwan, Nei Menggu tu]

Scales differ. Manuscript on silk. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Bird's-eye view. Covers four frontier regions of the Manchu Dynasty, Aihun area, a military colony since the middle of the 17th centur... More

Sunshū fuchū oshiro no zu. - Public domain old map

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.

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

Description du pais des Hurons. - Public domain old map

Description du pais des Hurons. - Public domain old map

Shows part of Ontario extending from Georgian Bay on the north (Partie du Grand Lac des Hurons) to Lake Ontario on the south and from Lake Huron on the west to Lake Simcoe on the east (Lac Oventarenk). Relief s... More

Le Canada faict par le Sr. de Champlain, ou, sont, La Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Nouvelle Holande, la Nouvelle Svede, la Virginie &c. avec les nations voisines et autres terres nouvellement decouvertes suivant les memoires de P. du Val, géographe du Roy

Le Canada faict par le Sr. de Champlain, ou, sont, La Nouvelle France,...

Relief shown pictorially. Indexed. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 34-86 Vault

Mappe-monde, ou carte generale du globe terrestre : representée en deux plan-hemispheres : reveiie et changée en plusieurs endroits suivant les relations les plus recentes

Mappe-monde, ou carte generale du globe terrestre : representée en deu...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island. LC copy: left half mounted on paper, fold lined. Lightly hand colored to mark continental boundaries and some place names. Shirley, Rodney W. Mapping of ... More

The Mississippi / Historic map, Library of Congress

The Mississippi / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Shows trees, animals, and names of the Indian nations. Pen-and-ink and watercolor; detached from paper and mounted on cloth backing. "This is the copy of a sketch of the Mississippi Ri... More

A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into countyes, townships, and lotts /

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

Plano de la enzenada y pto. de Valparayzo en las costas del mar del sur situado en la latd. austral de 33 gs. 2 ms. y en la longd. de 304 gs. 11 ms. segun el meridiano de Tenerife.

Plano de la enzenada y pto. de Valparayzo en las costas del mar del su...

Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis over the characters VDL. Pen-and-ink and yellow watercolor. Mounted on cloth bac... More

Nova totivs Americæ descriptio. - Public domain old map

Nova totivs Americæ descriptio. - Public domain old map

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

Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique Angloise, contenant la Virginie, Mary-Land, Caroline, Pensylvania, Nouvelle Iorck, N:Iarsey, N. France, et les terres nouvellement découerte dressé sur les relations les plus nouvelles.

Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique Angloise, contenant la Virginie, Mary-Lan...

Relief shown pictorially. Title in upper right corner: Partie orientale de l'Amérique angloise. Hand colored. Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In... More

Amérique septentrionale / Historic map, Library of Congress

Amérique septentrionale / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Prime meridian: [Paris]. Mounted on cloth backing. From his 1658 (i.e. 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (Phillips 4260). First state: Lacks shading ... More

Assyria vetvs diuifa in Syriam, Messopotamiam, Babyloniam, et Assyriam /

Assyria vetvs diuifa in Syriam, Messopotamiam, Babyloniam, et Assyriam...

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

Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula

Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula

Relief shown pictorially. Includes text, 2 ancillary celestial hemispheres, and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 2001-24

[Three maps of the cosmological systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Brahe].

[Three maps of the cosmological systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Br...

Title supplied by cataloger. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy assembled from three separate maps, trimmed and mounted on sheet. LC copy imperfect... More

L'Asie, : Selon les nouvelles observations de Mess.rs de l'Academie des Sciences, etc. /

L'Asie, : Selon les nouvelles observations de Mess.rs de l'Academie de...

Relief shown pictorially. Insets maps: Kamchadka to Korea to Indo-China; Beijing, China to Yellow Sea. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A new & exact mapp of the island of Jamaica : with ye true and iust scituation of ye severall townes & churches ..

A new & exact mapp of the island of Jamaica : with ye true and iust sc...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 99-56

A map of the improved part of the Province of Pennsilvania in America : begun by Wil. Penn, Proprietary & Governour thereof anno 1681 /

A map of the improved part of the Province of Pennsilvania in America ...

Shows rural landholders' names, lot lines, and proprietary manors. Map content (as of 1687) does not differ from earlier eds. Title from upper border. Statement of dedication at upper left:To the worthey Willia... More

Mare mediterraneum, exhibens oras hispaniæ, galliæ, italiæ, mare hadriaticum, archipelagus, natoliam, ægyptum, levantam, barcam, tripolin, tunetanum, algeriam, fezzam, maurocum.

Mare mediterraneum, exhibens oras hispaniæ, galliæ, italiæ, mare hadri...

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

[Map showing coast of northern Yucatán Peninsula].

[Map showing coast of northern Yucatán Peninsula].

Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink and green watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 547 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotat... More

A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey.

A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvani...

Relief shown pictorially. Date and attribution from On the map, 1983. Second state of map published originally in 1685 by Christopher Browne. This state differs from the earlier one in lacking the publisher's i... More

Plano de la ciudad de Sto. Domingo y su río.

Plano de la ciudad de Sto. Domingo y su río.

Shows Hispaniola, eastern portions of Cuba and Jamaica, and other adjacent islands. Also shows roads and villages in Hispaniola. Watermarks: J. Kool; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and green watercolo... More

A Portion of New York from the Hudson River west to the Unadilla Branch of the Susquehanna River; from the Delaware River north to Fort Stanwix.

A Portion of New York from the Hudson River west to the Unadilla Branc...

Scale ca. 1:65,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor on parchment. Area is divided into the various tracts of land with the owners identified. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1079 Available also thr... More

Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula / - Public domain map

Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula / - Public domain map

Relief shown pictorially. Includes col. ill. Insets: Polus arcticus -- Polus antarcticus -- Polus septentrionalis -- Systema mundi juxtamentem Claudii Ptolemaei Alexand -- Genuinum mundi systema secundum N. Cop... More

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