A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvani...
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Date and attribution from On the Map, 1983 (Figure 24). First state of map published originally in 1685 by Christopher Browne with the imprint in the cartouc... More
Plan de l'Ile a Vache & coste de St. Domingue de puis la pointe de l'A...
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes col. ill. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 459 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi]: dr...
Covers United States from Rio Grande River to Hudson River. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Item 46 in LC Kohl exhibition, Mar. to June 1993. Phillips. Maps of America. Includes notes. Inset: C... More
Eclipsis solis ad 25. Julii ao. 1748 in Europa a spectandae nova delin...
Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress
Public domain image of a historic vintage city view, cityscape, plan, 17th-18th 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
[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
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.
Africa : corrected from the observations of the Royal Society at Londo...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, rivers, forests and principal settlements, with tents symbolising areas inhabited by nomads, and notes. London meridian. "Drawn & Engrav'd by I. Senex." Available als... 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
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
[San Juan de Ulúa / - Public domain vintage map
Ground plan of a projected fortress. In black ink, with a part in yellow watercolor, on vellum. Mounted on cloth. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 47 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a r... More
Asia. Historic map, Library of Congress
Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper and lower left ... 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
[Map of the island of Hispaniola (Haiti & Dominican Republic)]
Illus. in: Jean Labat, Nouveau Voyage ... La Haye, 1724, v. 2, oppos. p. 199. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - MAPS HISPANOLIA 1724. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card ... More
Carte du Lac Champlain depuis le Fort Chambly jusqu'a celuyde St. Fréd...
Shows landowners along the shore of Lake Champlain. Pen and ink and colored ink. Similar to map created by Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry in 1732. Oriented with north to the right. At top of title cartouche... More
A plan of English Harbour; with the King's yard and carreening wharfe,...
Scale ca. 1:3,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially and by shading and hachures. Soundings shown in fathoms and feet. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 127 Includes index and "A scale of f... More
Carte de la provice de Quantong ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-li o...
Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Peking and Ferro Islands. "Tem XX Pag 392." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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.
Ierusalem, cum suburbiis, prout tempore Christi floruit, accurate nota...
Relief shown pictorially. German. Titles in Latin and German. Shows Jerusalem during the time of Christ. Includes descriptive text in German. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Pingjiang tu. Historic map, Library of Congress
Stone rubbing dated between 1858 and 1869. One of the earliest and biggest stone rubbing maps in China. Original stone was engraved in 1229 under Li Shoupeng. The map is now in the Museum of Engraved Stone Tabl... More
Africa. Historic map, Library of Congress
Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Fold-lined. LC copy imperfect: Margin in upper and lower left ... More
Havana op 't Eyland Cvba. - Public domain vintage map
Relief shown pictorially and by gradient tints. Shows aerial view of the port of Havana on the island of Cuba including buildings, ships, and fortifications. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinck... More
Johann Baptist Homann - Imperium Romano-Germanicum. Historic map, Libr...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
[Map of the several nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carol...
"This map describing the scituation [sic] of the several nations of Indians to the NW of South Carolina was coppyed [sic] from a draught drawn & painted on a deer skin by an Indian Cacique and presented to Fran... More
Luxembourg, une fortresse tres-celebre de la duché de cette nom dans P...
Relief shown by hachures. Title and index in French and German; text in German. Appears in Seutter's Grosser Atlas worinnen enthalten alle die jenige geographisches Universal-Special- und Particular-Mappen, mit... More
Canaan, or The Land of promise. - Public domain old map
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas]. nautical ch...
Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Does not cover Black Sea. Title devised by cataloguer. Oriented with north to the right (indicated by fleurs-de-lys). Contains 11 compass roses in a c... More
[Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Mexico to northern Chile].
Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India...
Relief shown pictorially. South America labeled in German, geographic features otherwise in Latin. Appears in the author's Cosmographei. Basel, Switzerland. 1550. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More
A compleat description of the province of Carolina in 3 parts : 1st, t...
Shows coastal area from North Carolina to Florida. Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Charles Town. Mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as ... More
This map of South America, according to the newest and most exact obse...
Scale ca. 1:17,500,000. Hand colored. "To the Right Honourable, Charles, Earl of Sunderland, and Baron Spencer of Wormleighton; one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State; &c." Available also through t... More
A new and accurate chart of the West Indies with the adjacent coasts o...
Relief shown pictorially. Gift of the estate of Jessica Lee. In lower right margin: Vol. II. Page 39. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes. Acquisitions cont... More
Palaestina seu Terra olim Sancta tum duodecim tribubus distributa tum ...
Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy: Hand colored.
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
Irlandiae regnum. Historic map, Library of Congress
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
[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
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
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
Plan de la ville et du port de Nangasaki = Grond tékening van de stad ...
Relief shown pictorially. Gift; 2003; Summit Enterprises, Inc.; Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no.: 2003-080
Nova totivs Americæ descriptio. - Public domain old map
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault
[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
Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae,...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault
[Saint Brendan, 484-577, figurative map of St. Brendan's legendary voy...
Repr. of engraving. Illus. in: Plautius, Caspar. Nova Typis ...1621, p. 13. Reference copy may be in LOT 4409A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Legends; Brend... 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.
Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie, et de la Guinée /
Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege, Aout 1707." "The words 'premier geographe du Roi' added in the title ... [indicate] that [a map] could not have been issued before 1718 when [De l'Isle] was appointed ... 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
[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 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
Vera totius expeditionis nauticæ : descriptio D. Franc. Draci ... /
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
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
Abraham van den Broeck - Korte beschryvinge van de landschappen des we...
Scales vary. Title from leather label on cover. Label has monogram E. B. de V., surmounted by a crown. Maps, not dated, intended to be bound in a Bible, but assembled in a modern half Morocco binding. The maps... 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
Mare mediterraneum, exhibens oras hispaniæ, galliæ, italiæ, mare hadri...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
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 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
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
Nieuwe kaart van het Eyland Sumatra /
Relief shown pictorially. Also covers Malay Peninsula and adjacent minor islands. Oriented with north to the left. Prime meridian: Ferro [?]. Printed number in upper right corner: N'o 11. Available also through... 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
Public domain image of an old city plan, vintage cartography, 18th-19th century map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress
Public domain image of an old city plan, vintage cartography, 18th-19th century map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
[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
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
Regni et insulæ Hiberniæ delineatio in qua sont Lagenia, Ultonia, Conn...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
A map of the West-Indies or the islands of America in the North Sea; w...
Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Printed for Tho: Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard and Iohn Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill." "To Wil. Paterson, Esq; this map of the West Ind... More
[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the coasts of...
Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title devised by cataloguer. Contains 4 compass roses in a circle centered in Italy to the north of Rome and half of a fifth on the trimmed center lef... More
[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
To his excellency William Burnet, esqr., this plan of Boston in New En...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows selected buildings pictorially. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermark indecipherable. Wheat & Brun no. 227. Includes index to selected buildings and embellished t... More
Nouvelle carte qui comprend les principaux triangles qui servent de fo...
Public domain scan of an old vintage map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
A new & accurate map of Persia, with the adjacent countries : drawn fr...
Relief shown pictorially. Has ornamental cartouche. From: Bowen's A complete system of geography. London : Printed for W. Innys, R. Ware [etc.], 1747. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as ... 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
Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio. Anno Do: M D LXXXV...
Intended to accompany: Ubaldini, Petruccio. A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete invadinge Englande in the yeare 1588. Some of the plates are signed by Robert Adams, artist, and Augustine Ryther, engrav... 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
[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
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
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
Exquisita & magno aliquot mensium periculo lustrata et iam retecta Fre...
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. From Gerardus Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra. 1611. Oriented with north to the bottom. Includes panor... More