age of discovery maps

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 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...

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

[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 /

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

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

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

Public domain image of a vintage city plan, 18th-19th century map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Fen ye yu tu., Qingdao China - Public domain dedication image

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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

Le theatre du monde, ou, Novvel atlas /

Public domain scan of a page from geographical atlas, geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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

[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

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

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 /

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

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...

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

Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas i Tierr...

"En quatro decadas desde el año de 1492 hasta el de 1531. De cada primera al Rey Nu[est]ro Señor." Each volume (8 "decades" and Descripción de las Indias Ocidentales) has special engraved t.p. Engraved borders... More

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

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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[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

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...

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

Les Deserts D'Egypte, De Thabaide D'Arabie, De Sirie, &c. : ou Sont ex...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A new map of the most considerable plantations of the English in Ameri...

[Map of Straits of Magellan, showing Patagonian Indians greeting Dutch...

Public domain reproduction of art print, 17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

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

[Tian di tu] Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows celestial sphere, China as a whole, and 15 provinces fo the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Turkestan, and the "South Seas", including Japan, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Calicut, Bagdad, etc. Covers Beijing, Henan,... 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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Plantas das fortalezas, pagodes & ca. da ilha de Ceilão.

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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

[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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

[Tian di tu] Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows celestial sphere, China as a whole, and 15 provinces fo the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Turkestan, and the "South Seas", including Japan, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Calicut, Bagdad, etc. Covers Beijing, Henan,... 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

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

Plantas das fortalezas, pagodes & ca. da ilha de Ceilão.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crest, heraldry, coat of arms, symbol, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Fen ye yu tu., Qingdao China - Public domain dedication image

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Descripsion des costs, pts., rades, illes de la Nouuele France faict s...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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...

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 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, Conn...

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

[Tian di tu] Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows celestial sphere, China as a whole, and 15 provinces fo the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Turkestan, and the "South Seas", including Japan, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Calicut, Bagdad, etc. Covers Beijing, Henan,... More

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

Public domain image of a vintage historic city view, cityscape, plan, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[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

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

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

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. 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 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

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

[Tian di tu] Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows celestial sphere, China as a whole, and 15 provinces fo the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Turkestan, and the "South Seas", including Japan, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Calicut, Bagdad, etc. Covers Beijing, Henan,... 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

Public domain image of a vintage historic city view, cityscape, plan, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

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

Le theatre du monde, ou, Novvel atlas /

Public domain scan of a page from geographical atlas, geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Le theatre du monde, ou, Novvel atlas /

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New England. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas i Tierr...

"En quatro decadas desde el año de 1492 hasta el de 1531. De cada primera al Rey Nu[est]ro Señor." Each volume (8 "decades" and Descripción de las Indias Ocidentales) has special engraved t.p. Engraved borders... More

[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

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.

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

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

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 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...

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

[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

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

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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

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...

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

[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 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 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

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

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].

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 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.

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 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