north america

L'Amérique centr[ale] /

Shows North America south of Canada including the Caribbean. Traced from a ms. world map created for Henri II in 1542 as reproduced in Jomard's Les monuments de la geographie (plate XIX.1), 1842-1862 (Phillips ... more

Tierra nveva

Shows the Atlantic coast from Labrador to north Florida. Publication information from atlas. Text titled "Della terra nova del Bacalaos" on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ra... more

Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae,...

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

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

Shows coast of North America from western Nova Scotia to Cape Cod. Relief shown pictorially. Gift; Henry Harrisse; 1910. Pen-and-ink with green wash. Vellum chart collection, no. 15. LC Nautical charts on vellu... more

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

New England.

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

[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

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

Virginia et Florida

Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative cartouche. Publication information from atlas title page. Text titled "Florida" on verso. Prime meridian: Ferro. In left margin: 899. LC copy accompanied by card wi... more

Amérique septentrionale /

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

Amérique septentrionale

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

America Septentrionalis /

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in v. 3 of Nieuwen atlas, ofte vverelt-beschrijvinge, vertonende de voornaemste rijcken ende landen des gheheelen Aerdt-Bodems. Amstelodami : Apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1652-3. E... more

Amérique septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties, ou sont di...

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Has watermarks. Copy imperfect: Tears along edge Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Control no. 2001-29

North America divided into its principall parts where are distinguishe...

Relief shown pictorially. At upper right: Described by Sanson, corrected and amended by William Berry. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes ill. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Lib... more

Amérique septentrion.lle [i.e. septentrionale] : composée, corigée, et...

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 de l'Amerique Septentrionnale : depuis le 25, jusqu'au 65⁰ deg. ...

Copied between 1909 and 1910 from the original 1688 ms. in the Archives du dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. In margin: Bibliotheque du Depot des cartes et plans de la Marina, ... more

Carte generalle de la Nouvelle France ou est compris la Lovisiane, Gas...

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in some copies of: Premier etablissement de la foy dans la Nouvelle France / Chrestien Le Clercq. Paris A. Auroy, 1691. Also appears in some copies of Nouvelle relation de la G... more

Amerique septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties /

Based on a map published by Nicolas Sanson in 1650. Latin title in upper margin: "America septentrionalis in suas praecipuas parte divisa, ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae ducis." Relief shown pictorially. Availa... more

Avantures mal-heureuses du Sieur de la Salle / J. Van Vian en del. et ...

Print shows La Salle, priests and others on shore as supplies are unloaded from a ship. Title from item. Illus. in: Nouveau voyage d'un pais plus grand que l'Europe avec les reflections des entreprises du Sieur... more

[The Buffalo]

Print shows a buffalo, a pelican, and a possum, hanging from a tree, in a forest Title devised by library staff. Illus. in: A new discovery of a vast country in America / Louis Hennepin. London : Printed for M.... more

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

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

[Etats-Unie: Partie septentrionale].

Scale ca. 1:2,200,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Title from manuscript label on verso as originally mounted. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Shows northern U.S. and Great Lakes region o... more

America Septentrionalis novissima ; America Meridionalis accuratissima

Relief shown pictorially. Map contains 2 separate titles for North America and South America. Includes ill. of figures in title area. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Tabula Mexicae et Floridae : terrarum Anglicarum, et anteriorum Americ...

Shows the extent of New Spain and Florida, New France, the American colonies, and the West Indies, rivers, towns, and trade routes. Text in Latin. Title from caption. Relief shown pictorially. Measures east fro... more

A new map of the country of Louisiana and of ye river Missisipi in Nor...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations, including an Illustrated cartouche and a view of Niagara Falls, and an index. LC copy mounted on cloth. Phillips, A list of maps of America, p. 367 Available al... more

This map of North America, according to ye newest and most exact obser...

Scale ca. 1:15,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers, Baron of Evesham in ye county of Worcester, President of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council &... more

This map of North America, according to ye newest and most exact obser...

Scale ca. 1:15,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers, Baron of Evesham in ye county of Worcester, President of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council &... more

Novissima tabula regionis Lvdovicianae gallice dictae La Lovgsiane iam...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrated cartouche. LC copy mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

L'Amerique septentrionale. Dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'A...

Scale ca. 1:18,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Imprint date from R. V. Tooley's French mapping of the Americas, item 31. Cartouche engraved by N. Guérard. Available also ... more

A new map of the north parts of America claimed by France under ye nam...

Relief shown pictorially. Phillips. Maps of America. Includes notes and ill. of "The Indian Fort Sasquesahanok." Insets: The harbour of Annapolis Royal -- A map of ye mouth of Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi] and ... more

[Native Americans collecting sap and cooking maple syrup in pots, till...

Illus. in: Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps / Joseph Francois Lafitau. Paris : Saugrain l'aîne [etc.], 1724, vol. 2, pl. 7, opp. p. 154.

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

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

Relief shown pictorially. Gift; Mrs. Jefferson Patterson; December 1980. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569 Index map to Popple's larger, 20 sheet map of the same name. Includes 4 inset views, 18 inset maps, ill... more

Carte de l'Amerique septentrionale pour servir à l'histoire de la Nouv...

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

Le cours du fleuve Missisipi selon les relations les plus modernes.

Scale ca. 1:11,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Shows territory from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, and from headwaters of the Rio Grande to the mouth of the St. Lawrence. Available ... more

A map of the British empire in America with the French, Spanish and th...

Relief shown pictorially. English and French. In upper right corner: XC.I. Second state, ca 1741. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In... more

Carte réduite des découvertes des Russes, entre l'Asie et l'Amerique.

Prévost ed., 1747. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault

Carta geografica dell' America settentrionale.

Scale ca. 1:26,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Covers area including North America, Central America and the Caribbean Islands. Shows boundaries, cities and towns, forts, some trails, routes of exploration, a... more

North America.

North America.

Scale ca. 1:50,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Degs. west from London." Shows colonies, a few cities and towns, and Indian tribal territory. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 6 Available also through the... more

A map of the British and French settlements in North America.

Scale ca. 1:11,000,000. Covers the eastern half of North America from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, cities and towns, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory,... more

A new map of North America, with the British, French, Spanish, Dutch &...

Scale ca. 1:18,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Shows boundaries, cities and towns, roads, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory, and vegetation. Also shows anchorages, currents, and route... more

Mapa y tabla geografica de leguas comunes que hay de unos á otros luga...

Shows North America. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. "Dedicada al exm̃o señor D. Agustín de Ahumada y Villalón, marqués de las Amarillas, ... virrey governador y captain general de esta Nueva Espana."... more

An Accurate map of North America from the latest discoveries.

Scale ca. 1:50,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Degrees west from London." Also shows colonies, a few cities and towns, and Indian tribal territory. LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Ind... more

Mapa de una parte de la America Septentrional

A new & accurate map of Louisiana, with part of Florida and Canada, an...

Scale ca. 1:8,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. "West longitude from London." "No. 100." From the author's A complete system of geography. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 12 Available also through t... more

North America, performed under the patronage of Louis Duke of Orleans,...

Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows provinces, cities and towns, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory. Also shows shoals, banks, and other navigational hazards off the co... more

A new & accurate map of Louisiana, with part of Florida and Canada, an...

Scale ca. 1:8,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. "West longitude from London." "No. 59." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world ... 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 12 ... more

This plan of the British dominions of New England in North America.

Scale ca. 1:316,800. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows administrative divisions. "Published by the executors of Dr. William Douglas of Boston in New England, from his original draught." "Engraved by... more

The case of the German Protestant Churches settled in the Province of ...

Imprint 3.; Franklin coll. 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 141, Folder 15.

The case of the German Protestant Churches settled in the Province of ...

The case of the German Protestant Churches settled in the Province of ...

L'Amerique, divisée en tous ses pays et etats : dressée sur de nouveau...

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the left. Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 133 Includes inset of eastern and western hemispheres, text, and cartouche. Available also through the L... more

An accurate map of the English colonies in North America, bordering on...

Covers from Maine to South Carolina and west to Lake Michigan. Relief shown pictorially. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, Dec., 1754, v. 15, pg. 241 LC maps of North America, 1750-1789, 707 Av... more

A map of the British American plantations, extending from Boston in Ne...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows area east of the Mississippi from Niagara Falls to Port Royal, S.C. Includes illustrated cartouche. Prime meridian: Ferro. From the Gentlemen's Magazine, vol. 24, July 1754. LC c... more

Map of the country about the Mississippi.

Not drawn to scale. Title from verso. Manuscript, pen and ink. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Shows area from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Ohio River. Also mounted on sheet, in same handwriting as... more

Notice is hereby given to such persons as have received beating orders...

Not in Evans.; Not in Ford.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 14.

An accurate map of the British colonies in North America bordering on ...

Scale ca. 1:5,100,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Text differs from other copy. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 55 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Va... more

A map of the British and French dominions in North America with the ro...

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Spine title: Map of North America. Hand colored. LC copy sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. First impression of 1st ed. Relief shown pictorially. LC copy annotated in ink. LC copy im... more

A map of the British and French settlements in North America /

A new map of Nova Scotia, and Cape Britain. With the adjacent parts of...

Scale ca. 1:1,900,000. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Shows Maritime Provinces, New England, and St. Lawrence Valley region to Montreal. Includes table of sources of observations. Accompanied ... more

Carte de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1754.

Scale ca. 1:15,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. From the author's Atlas méthodique. 1755. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 16 Shows boundaries, some cities and towns, forts, and Indian trib... more

A map of the British plantations on the continent of North America, ac...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "West longitude from Ferro." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 87 Includes historic notes and text on "Fourteen British colonies including Newfo... more

Mapa de la America Septentrional dividido en dos partes. En la primera...

Scale ca. 1:6,250,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Described in United States. Library of Congress. The Lowery collection. 1912. No. 416. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 35 Includes illus. of "... more

Carte des possessions angloises & françoises du continent de l'Amériqu...

Scale ca. 1:7,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Longitude occidentale de l'Île de Fer" and "de Londres." LC copy annotated under cartouche with brown ink. LC Maps of North America, 1750-17... more

A new and accurate map of the English empire in North America; Represe...

Scale ca. 1:7,200,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Longitude west from Ferro." "Sold by Wm. Herbert ... & Robt. Sayer ... " LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 62 Includes notes. Maps in margin: A... more

A new and accurate map of the English empire in North America: Represe...

Scale ca. 1:7,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Designed to be colored. Not colored. "Sold by Wm. Herbert on London Bridge & Robt. Sayer over against Fetter Lane in Fleet Street." LC Maps of North America, 175... more

A new map of Nova Scotia, and Cape Britain. With the adjacent parts of...

Scale ca. 1:1,900,000; English marine leagues 20 to a degree; English miles 69 1/2 to a degree. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows Maritime Provinces, New England, and St. ... more

Carte de la Louisiane et des pays voisins, dédiée à M. Rouillé, sécret...

Scale ca. 1:5,800,000. "Longitude du méridien de l'île de Fer." Covers the area from Québec to the Gulf of Mexico and west of Santa Fé, N.M. Relief shown pictorially. Shows cities and towns, forts, some trails,... more

A map of the British and French settlements in North America.

Scale ca. 1:8,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Longitude w. from London." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 60 Includes list of French forts in Nova Scotia, New England, New York, "Pencilvania," "Ve... more

Canada et Louisiane,

Scale ca. 1:4,450,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Lowery, 415 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 34 Includes illus. of Niagara Falls and additional place-names. Available also through the Library... more

Theatrum belli in America Septentrionali.

An accurate map of North America. Describing and distinguishing the Br...

A map of the British and French settlements in North America /

Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, rivers, forests, principal settlements and notes. Prime meridian: London. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 574 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as... more

A map of the British and French dominions in North America, with the r...

Relief shown pictorially. Second impression of 1st ed. Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 38 Includes text and inset "A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late ... more

North America.

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Differs from other copy in that only boundaries are colored and some place names are highlighted. The boundary of Georgia is continuous. LC Maps of... more

Partie occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou Canada.

Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. Hand colored. "Longitude occidentale du meridien de Paris." Relief shown pictorially. Shows Great Lakes region. Appears in the Homann Erben Atlas compendiarivs. 1752 [i.e. 1755] LC Maps o... more

An accurate map of North America. Describing and distinguishing the Br...

Scale ca. 1:550,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Lowery 409 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 20 Includes historical notes, notes on territorial claims, and insets of "A particular map of Baffin ... more

Canada et Louisiane

Scale ca. 1:4,450,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Lowery, 415 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 33 Includes illus. of Niagara Falls and text at bottom of map. Available also through the Library ... more

An accurate map of the English colonies in North America bordering on ...

Scale ca. 1:5,100,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Text differs from other copy. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 54 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Va... more

A new and accurate map of North America : wherein the errors of all pr...

Relief shown by shading. "All the coloured part of this map ... delineates the rights and possessions of Great Britain ... " Mounted on cloth with transparent cloth overlay, losses along outer right margin. Inc... more

America Septentrionalis a Domini d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in An...

Scale ca. 1:6,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro and London. Place names and descriptive notes in English. Differs from other copies in coloration and boundaries. Colors agre... more

Amérique septentrionale avec les routes, distances en miles, villages ...

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. Third impression of 2d French ed. Relief shown pictorially. Title in French and German. Formerly in the collection of the French geographer Henri Vignaud. LC Maps of North A... more

America Septentrionalis a Domino d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in An...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro and London. Place names and descriptive notes in English. Differs from other copies in coloration and boundaries. Colors do n... more

Carte des possessions angloises & françoises du continent de l'Amériqu...

Carte du Canada et de la Louisiane qui forment la Nouvelle France et d...

Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 72 Appears in Homann Erben's Atlas Compendiarivs (1757 [i.e. 1757]) Includes text. Available a... more

Amérique septentrionale avec les routes, distances en miles, limites e...

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. First French ed. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 45 Includes text and inset "Nouvelle carte de la baye d'Hudson et de Labrador selon les derni... more

America Septentrionalis a Domino d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in An...

Scale ca. 1:6,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro and London. Place names and descriptive notes in English. Differs from other copies in coloration and boundaries. Georgia's b... more

America Septentrionalis a Domini d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in An...

Carte des colonies anglaises dans l'Amérique septentrionale, terminée ...

A map of that part of America which was the principal seat of war in 1...

Covers northern New England and upper Saint Lawrence Valley. Does not show military positions, movements, or fortifications. Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes. LC copy mounted on cloth. Margins trimmed. ... more

Suite du cours du fleuve de St. Laurent, depuis Québec jusqu'au Lac On...

Scale ca. 1:2,850,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Tom XIV, in 4⁰, no. 17. Tome 14, in 8⁰, page 254, no. 2." Appears in Jean François de La Harpe's Abrégé de l'historie générale des voyages. 1780. LC Maps of Nor... more

An accurate map of His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire in New Engl...

An exact chart of the river St. Laurence, from Fort Frontenac to the i...

Scale ca. 1:695,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. Includes text. Insets: The Seven Islands.--A continuation of the river from Quebec to Lake Ontario.--St. Nicholas or Engl... more

A map of the British and French dominions in North America, with the r...

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. Second ed. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 40 Includes text and inset "A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late surveys of those c... more

An exact chart of the river St. Lawrence, from Port Frontenac to the i...

Scale ca. 1:695,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. Includes text. Insets: The Seven Islands.--A continuation of the river from Quebec to Lake Ontario.--St. Nicholas or Engl... more

Carte du cours du fleuve de St. Laurent depuis son embouchure jusqu'au...

Scale ca. 1:2,850,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Tom XIV, in 4⁰, no. 15. Tome 14, in 8⁰, page 254, no. 1." Appears in Jean Francois de La Harpe's Abrégé de l'histoire generale des voyages. 1780. LC Maps of Nor... more

L'Amérique septentrionale,

Scale ca. 1:12,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows the Mississippi River to be the eastern boundary of Louisiana. Differs from other copies in Canada's provincial boundary coloration. From th... more