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New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland

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

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

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.

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

A new & correct map of Negroland and Guinea

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

China, Regio Asiae., Abraham Ortelius

Picryl description: Public domain image of a 19th-century fashion, China or Chinese-inspired design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Le Nouveau Mexique et la Floride: tirées de diverses cartes, et relati...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Virginia et Nova Francia., Jodocus Hondius

[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

Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus

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

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

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

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

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

Espagne Moderne [Material cartográfico]

Márgenes graduados.

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.

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.

View of Jerusalem - Public domain vintage map

America, Jodocus Hondius - Public domain vintage map

Karta Sibiri P.I.Godunova 1667g. Str.23,24

Public domain document scan of Eastern Europe map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A new map of Virginia and Maryland - Public domain map

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. The Lionel Pincus and Princess F... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

General'naia karta Ukrainy G.de Boplana1648/51g. Str.21

Public domain document scan of Eastern Europe map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Pitiful example of a young soldier's execution., Montanus Arnoldus 1...

Public domain reproduction of art print, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

John Smith - Virginia / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Amérique septentrionale Historic map, Library of Congress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plano de la plaza de Oran [Mapa] - Public domain old map

Comprende la zona del golfo de Orán entre la ciudad del mismo nombre y Mazalquivir

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

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

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

A map of Virginia and Maryland - Public domain old map

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. The Lionel Pincus and Princ... More

New England. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

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

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

Guillaume Sanson - Carte nouvelle de la mer mediterranee.

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

Planta de Badajoz Su Castillo y su sitio Con todas las fortificaciones...

Al verso: "Guerra, legº nº 3098. Remitido en carta del Marq[ue]s de S[a]n Vicente de 21 de sep[tiembr]e de 1698. Cop[iad]o p[ar]a el S[eño]r Brig[adie]r Cor[one]l Aparici hoy 10 de agosto de 1843"

[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.

Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / nautical chart

[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

Andaluzia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map

Picryl description: Public domain image of Abraham Ortelius map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Abraham Ortelius was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, conventionally recogn... More

A new map of Europe according to the present general divisions and nam...

Public domain scan of an old vintage map, 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

Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula - Public domain map

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

Fac-simile of Holmes-map of the province of Pennsylvania : with the 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 Ocoa - Public domain vintage map

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

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

Flandria., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map

Public domain image of Abraham Ortelius map, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Abraham Ortelius was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, c... More

Ancient Asia, according to its general divisions and names of its coun...

A new map of Carolina - Public domain vintage map

Amsterdam in New Netherland, 1653-1664

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

Typvs orbis terrarvm Historic map, Library of Congress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trompe l'Oeil Design Including Bills, Calling Cards, an Etching, a Map...

Anonymous, Italian, first half of the 18th century Public domain photograph of 17th century Italian drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Novissima totius terrarum orbis tabula

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

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

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

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

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

Planisphaerii coelestis hemisphaerium meridionale : calculatum ad 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

Clement de Jonghe - Map of Venice, Anonymous, 16th century

Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century Public domain photograph of 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Orbis terrae novissima descriptio, Jodocus Hondius

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

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

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

[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

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

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

Nowel Amsterdam en Lameriqve : 1672 /

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

Mediterranean Sea divided into its Principall parts or seas.

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.

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

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

Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis avstralis. qve est : 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

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

Karta Rossii I.Massy 1633g. Tekst str.`13

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Veronensis Ager., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain map

Public domain image of Abraham Ortelius map, 17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Abraham Ortelius was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, conven... More

Prussia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map

Tartaria., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map

Carte nouvelle de l'Amerique angloise : contenant la Virginie, Mary-La...

Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain. Plan - Public domain old map

Architectural drawing shows plaza. Caption on verso: "Planta de la Plaza maior de Madrid. Juan Thomas de Mora." Although the name on the drawings is Juan Thomas de Mora, it should probably be Juan Gómez de Mor... More

West-Indische paskaert waer in de graden der breedde over weder zijden...

Shows the west coast of North America from Belle Isle, Newfoundland, both coasts of South America, mediterranean Europe, and the east coast of Africa. Includes illustrations. Available also through the Library ... 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

[Map showing coast of Portobelo region].

Relief shown by land form drawings. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Watermark: PVL [Pieter van Ley] in 1 character. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic ... More

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