Ancient Maps, Library of Congress

Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni tÿpus., Abraham Ortelius

Covers northern Asia. Relief shown pictorially. From Abraham Ortelius's atlas: Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1603 ed. Hand col. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes tex... More

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

[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

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

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

[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

[Chart of the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and the coasts of western Euro...

Portugalliae : que olim Lusitania, nouissima & exactissima descriptio ...

"... anno MCCCCCLX." Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. ill. Text on verso. On verso: 14. Filed with Eastham Collection in... More

Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio /

[San Juan de Ulúa /

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

[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

La herdike enterprinse faict par le Signeur Draeck D'Avoir cirquit tou...

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

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

Floridae Americae provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio auctorè I...

Description du pays armorique à pres Bretaigne.

Scale ca. 1:1,100,000. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1

Vera totius expeditionis nauticæ : descriptio D. Franc. Draci ... /

Hiberniae, Britannicae Insvlae nova descripto., Abraham Ortelius

Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 406 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Filed with Eastham Collection in G&M Vault: EA 20-A: ga61 02-20-2013

Irlandiae regnum. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

America. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baptista Boazio's Irlandiæ c. 1606 = Irlandiæ accvrata descriptio.

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right.

Sunshū fuchū oshiro no zu.

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

Leo Belgicus. Historic map, Library of Congress

[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

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

[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

Accuratissima Brasiliæ tabula. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Item 67 in LC G&M Leo Belgicus exhibit, Nov. 1993 to May 1994. Includes insets of "Baya de todos os Sanctos" and "Villa d'Olinda de Pernambuco" and il... 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 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 the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico].

Relief shown pictorially. Shows coastal features, administrative districts, and settlements on the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison... More

De Eylanden en Vastelanden van Westindien /

Havana op 't Eyland Cvba.

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

Caerte vande Bay St. Tiago : gelegen op 't Eylant Cvba, op de Hoochtv ...

Relief shown pictorially and by gradient tints. Shows Santiago Bay and vicinity on the island of Cuba including pictorial presentation of the city of Santiago. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vin... More

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

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

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

America Septentrionalis / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Carte des trois Arabies : tirée en partie de l'Arabe de Nubie, en part...

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

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

L'Inde de ç̧à et de là le Gange ou est l'Empire du Grand Mogol et pays...

Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates given from an unidentified prime meridian. Appears in his Cartes generales de toutes les parties du monde, 1658. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as ... More

Le Bresil. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

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.

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

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

Partie meridio. le du royaume d'Irlande, ou sont la province de Mounst...

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

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Nova Persiæ, Armeniæ, Natoliæ, et Arabiæ /

Novi Belgii, quod nunc Novi Jorck vocatur, Novæ [que] Angliæ & partis ...

Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's America, London, 1670. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. Vault AACR2

Manatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier.

Manuscript. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Covers New York City region. Pictorial map showing buildings and points of interest. Depths shown by soundings. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as... More

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

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

Planta de la muy yllustre ciudad de los reyes corte del reino del Peru...

Selected buildings shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, index, and col. ill.

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

[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

L'Afrique, ou Lybie ulterieure : ou font le Saara, or desért, le pays ...

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.

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.

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

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

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

[Map of the Caribbean in French; 1686]

Engraving by Alexander Olivier Exquemelin. Illus. in: Histoire des Avanturiers, 1686, vol. 1, map at beginning of Chapter 1. Reference copy may be in LOT 4410 A. This record contains unverified, old data from c... More

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

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. Includes indexes of landholders, inset of "The city of Philadelphia, two miles in length and one in breadth," a... 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

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

Totius Africæ accuratissima tabula /

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

Peloponnesus hodie Moreæ Regnum : distincté divisum in omnes suas prov...

Relief shown pictorially. Originally printed on 3 sheets. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined, annotated in ink on verso: 22. Includes ill. of lion with enslaved human figures shown in embellished title cartouche. V... More

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

[Maps of Bermuda, Iceland, Jan Mayen Island, and Newfoundland].

Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Originally printed on 1 sheet. The maps appear on plate [166] in the author's Corso geografico universale. Venetia : A spefe dell' autore, 1692-[1694]. Available also thro... More

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.

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

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

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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

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

Deserta Aegypti, Thebaidis, Arabiae, Syriae etc. ubi accurata notata s...

Relief shown pictorially. In upper right corner: II7. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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

Plano y explicación del Real Astillero de la Habana en la ysla de Cuba...

Oriented with north toward the lower left. Watermark: C. & I. Honig. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 354 Indexed. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right ma... More

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 /

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.

Les Isles Britanniques : ou sont le Royaume d'Angleterre tire ́de Sped...

Americam utramque : aliis correctiorem /

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Dedicated to "Iacobo Boreel" by G. van Keulen. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 10-87 Vault

Carte exacte de toutes les provinces, villes, bourgs, villages et rivi...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. LC copy annotated in ink on verso: 95. Vault

Nova et accurata tabula episcopatvvm Stavangeriensis, Bergensis et Asl...

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

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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

Canaan, or The Land of promise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

Dissegno topografo del Canale di Cattaro con il confine de Castelnovo ...

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolors. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed.

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