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Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula / - Public domain map
In the 17th century, maps took a huge leap forward. Mathematical and astronomical knowledge necessary to make accurate measurements had evolved. English mathematicians had perfected triangulation: navigation and surveying by right-angled triangles. Triangulation allowed navigators to set accurate courses and produced accurate land surveys. Seamen learned to correct their compasses for declination and had determined the existence of annual compass variation.

Latitude determination was greatly improved with the John Davis quadrant. The measurement of distance sailed at sea was improved by another English invention, the common log. Longitudinal distance between Europe and Québec was determined by solar and lunar eclipses by the Jesuit Bressani in the 1640s and by Jean Deshayes in 1686. With accurate surveys in Europe, the grid of the modern map began to take shape.
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Plano del puerto de Santa Marta situado en la costa de Tierra Firme en la littd. N. 11⁰16ʹ y en la longd. de 302⁰23ʹ segun el meridiano de Tenerife /

Plano del puerto de Santa Marta situado en la costa de Tierra Firme en...

Shows coast of Colombia in vicinity of Santa Marta. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Bar scale incorrect. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermark: Strasburg fle... More

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

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

Shows road between Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Title from title piece mounted on scroll. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Orientation varies. Worm holes in the map. Stamped on: Kan... More

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

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

Shows road between Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Title from title piece mounted on scroll. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Orientation varies. Worm holes in the map. Stamped on: Kan... More

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

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

Novvs atlas Sinensis. Historic map, Library of Congress

Novvs atlas Sinensis. Historic map, Library of Congress

Covers 16 provinces of China, Korea, and Japan. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text. Philips 3186 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. On verso of shelflist card: At th... More

Kun yu quan tu. - Public domain vintage map

Kun yu quan tu. - Public domain vintage map

Wood block prints. Shows the world in two hemispheres. Relief shown pictorially. Based on the world map of Joannes Blaeu. Translated title: Double Hemisphere Map of the World. Includes ill. and text. Gift; Arth... More

Kun yu quan tu. - Public domain vintage map

Kun yu quan tu. - Public domain vintage map

Wood block prints. Shows the world in two hemispheres. Relief shown pictorially. Based on the world map of Joannes Blaeu. Translated title: Double Hemisphere Map of the World. Includes ill. and text. Gift; Arth... More

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c. /

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) cha...

Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Cong... More

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c. /

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) cha...

Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Cong... More

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c. /

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) cha...

Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Cong... More

Wu bei zhi / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Wu bei zhi / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Xia lan zhi zhang., Qingdao China - Public domain map

Xia lan zhi zhang., Qingdao China - Public domain map

Covers Beijing, Nanjing, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunan, Guizhou, Nü zhen du si wei suo, Dong nan zhu yi, Xi bei zhu yi of Ming Dynasty. ... More

America noviter delineata - Public domain vintage map

America noviter delineata - Public domain vintage map

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

Ducatus Mediolanensis., Abraham Ortelius

Ducatus Mediolanensis., Abraham Ortelius

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

Corfu., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain vintage map

Corfu., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain vintage 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

Septentrionales., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain map

Septentrionales., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain 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

A new map of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, & Moscovy, shewing their present general divisions, cheif cities or towns, rivers, mountains &c.

A new map of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, & Moscovy, shewing their present...

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

A map of ye English empire in ye continent of America.  Viz Virginia New York Mary Land New I[J]arsey Carolina New England.
A new map of  the Land of Canaan and part adjoining, shewing the division thereof among the twelve tribes of Israel.

A new map of the Land of Canaan and part adjoining, shewing the divis...

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

North America divided into its principall parts where are distinguished the severall states which belong to the English, Spanish, and French

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

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

Episcopatus Bergensis. - Public domain vintage map

Episcopatus Bergensis. - Public domain vintage 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

Pas caerte van Nieu Nederlandt en de Engelsche Virginies van Cabo Cod tot Cabo Canrick.

Pas caerte van Nieu Nederlandt en de Engelsche Virginies van Cabo Cod ...

Public domain image of a navigation map, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description:

Pascaerte van Westindien : de vaste kusten en de Eylanden. nautical chart

Pascaerte van Westindien : de vaste kusten en de Eylanden. nautical ch...

Public domain image of a navigation map, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description:

A chart of the West Indias from Cap Cod to ye River Oronoque

A chart of the West Indias from Cap Cod to ye River Oronoque

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

The Western Ilands - Public domain vintage map

The Western Ilands - Public domain vintage map

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

Poland. - Public domain vintage geogrpaphic map

Poland. - Public domain vintage geogrpaphic map

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

Virginiae item et Floridae Americae provinciarum, nova descriptio.

Virginiae item et Floridae Americae provinciarum, nova descriptio.

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

John Ogilby - Porto Rico, Montanus Arnoldus 1625-1683, cartographer

John Ogilby - Porto Rico, Montanus Arnoldus 1625-1683, cartographer

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Segments of 4 half globe gores covering North America.

Segments of 4 half globe gores covering North America.

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

Yŏji yoram. Historic map, Library of Congress

Yŏji yoram. Historic map, Library of Congress

Romanized. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga37 2010-12--22 天下地圖 -- 中國地圖 -- 朝鮮八道圖 -- 京畿道 -- 忠清道 -- 全羅道 -- 慶尚道 -- 江原道 -- 咸鏡道 -- 平安道 -- 黄海道 -- 日本國圖 -- 琉球國圖.

Yŏji yoram. Historic map, Library of Congress

Yŏji yoram. Historic map, Library of Congress

Romanized. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga37 2010-12--22 天下地圖 -- 中國地圖 -- 朝鮮八道圖 -- 京畿道 -- 忠清道 -- 全羅道 -- 慶尚道 -- 江原道 -- 咸鏡道 -- 平安道 -- 黄海道 -- 日本國圖 -- 琉球國圖.

Kun yu wan guo quan tu - Public domain vintage map

Kun yu wan guo quan tu - Public domain vintage map

Relief shown pictorially. Title from Web page (viewed on April 20, 2010). Sheets individually numbered, e.g. Si fu. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Online version of t... More

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain old map

[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

Americae sive novi orbis proximarvmqz regionum orae descriptio

Americae sive novi orbis proximarvmqz regionum orae descriptio

Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to: Johannes Metellus. Appears in the author's Speculum orbis terrae, 1602. Described in: The mapping of North America / Philip D. Burden. 1996. p. 176-7. Latin text on vers... More

Vniversale descrittione di tvtto il monde /

Vniversale descrittione di tvtto il monde /

Relief shown pictorially. Probably the second state of the map. Differs from the first state in the reworking of Tierra del Fuego to include the Straits of Magellan. Presents Staten Island, west of Tierra del F... More

Dordracvm ; Briela. Historic map, Library of Congress

Dordracvm ; Briela. Historic map, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Bird's-eye-view. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. From Pierre d'Avity's Newe archontolog... More

Charte vniuerselle de tovt le monde - Public domain map

Charte vniuerselle de tovt le monde - Public domain map

Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes. Illustrations include images of the garden of Eden and the Last Judgment and four allegorical figures in the corners of the sheet. Assembled from 4 sheets. LC copy in t... More

America Septentrionalis / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Novi Belgii, quod nunc Novi Jorck vocatur, Novæ [que] Angliæ & partis Virginiæ : accuratissima et novissima delineatio.

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

Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae : Caeterarumq Regionum illi adiacentium exsacta descrip [Mapa]

Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae : Caeterarumq Regionum illi adiacentium exsac...

Comprende las repúblicas de Lituania, Letonia, Bielorrusia y la zona septentrional de Ucrania

Magnae Tartariae magni mogolis imperii Iaponiae et Chinae nova descriptio

Magnae Tartariae magni mogolis imperii Iaponiae et Chinae nova descrip...

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in De Wit's Atlas. LC copy stamped on: 493. Mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A chart of the Caribe Ilands [sic] /

A chart of the Caribe Ilands [sic] /

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

Carte generalle de la Nouvelle France ou est compris la Lovisiane, Gaspesie et le Nouueau Mexique auec les Isles Antilles, dressee sur les memoires les plus nouueaux

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

Plano de las Bocas del Toro situadas en la costa de Tierra Firme, la de mas al O. en la latitud de 9⁰37ʹ y en longd. de 293⁰42ʹ del mro. de Thenerife /

Plano de las Bocas del Toro situadas en la costa de Tierra Firme, la d...

Shows region of Chiriquí Lagoon and Almirante Bay. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermark: IV. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 667 Available also through t... More

Regni et insulæ Hiberniæ delineatio in qua sont Lagenia, Ultonia, Connachia et Momonia provenciæ.

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 del ryo e ciudad de Sto. Domingo.

Plano del ryo e ciudad de Sto. Domingo.

Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: SR; and, watermark almost similar to golden fleece coat of arms. Pen-and-ink and green, pink, and yellow watercolors. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 403... More

Nova et accurata tabula episcopatvvm Stavangeriensis, Bergensis et Asloiensis /

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

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

Plano que manifiesta del modo que csta formada la Ysla Santa Cathalina en la costa del Brasil situada su mediama en los 27 gos. y 72 ms. de latitud y en 327 gs. y 10 ms., merional de Tenerife.

Plano que manifiesta del modo que csta formada la Ysla Santa Cathalina...

Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermarks: Two decorative shields and indecipherable lettering. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC L... More

Plan de la Baye de la Conception situé par 36. d. 35 ms. latt. sud selon le compas.

Plan de la Baye de la Conception situé par 36. d. 35 ms. latt. sud sel...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Watermarks: Cluster of grapes and indecipherable lettering. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hi... More

Discrección de la costa de Yucatan, Sonda de Campeche y bajos adjacentes segun su antigua situación con la derrota qe. practicaron en solicitud del Nombrado Negrillo sin encontrar le, el Paqubot del Rei titulado Sn. Carlos al mando del teniente de Navio Dn. Manuel de Alderete y el Bergantin Sn. Juan Nepomuceno al de igual Clase D Andres de Balderrama lo qe. manifiesta la siguiente ; Diseno de la expresada costa y sus baxos correxida segun las mas seguras observaciones y sondas mas prals. que sehan practicado en este reconocimto. preuiniendo qe. la extensión que seda al Veril es correspondiente a los puntos d. sonda allados ahora hasta qe. se compruebe mas prolifamte.

Discrección de la costa de Yucatan, Sonda de Campeche y bajos adjacent...

Shows northern Yucatán Peninsula. Also shows routes of expeditions on 1 map. Depths shown by soundings. Watermark: PVL [Pieter van Ley] in 1 character. Pen-and-ink and red and yellow watercolors. Mounted on clo... More

Plano de la Nueba Verz-Cruz con los baxos de dentro desde Pta. de Moncambo hasta Pta. Gorda con la sonda de la entrada en dho. puerto.

Plano de la Nueba Verz-Cruz con los baxos de dentro desde Pta. de Monc...

Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the bottom. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 599 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raste... More

North America divided into its III principall [sic] parts.

North America divided into its III principall [sic] parts.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. 2 copies, second copy has been ornamented by the addition of 4 ships in the sea. Vault

Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova - Public domain old map

Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova - Public domain old map

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north towards the right. Includes two views "Modus muniendi apud Mahikanenses" and illustrations including an illustrated cartouche. No text on verso. LC copy trimmed to ... More

L'hydrographie ou description de l'eau au c'est a dire des mers, golfes, lacs, destroits et rivieres principales, qui sont dans la surface du globe terrestre

L'hydrographie ou description de l'eau au c'est a dire des mers, golfe...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 394 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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

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

Shows road between Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Title from title piece mounted on scroll. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Orientation varies. Worm holes in the map. Stamped on: Kan... More

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

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

Shows road between Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Pictorial map. Relief shown pictorially. Title from title piece mounted on scroll. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Orientation varies. Worm holes in the map. Stamped on: Kan... More

Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / nautical chart

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

Novvs atlas Sinensis. Historic map, Library of Congress

Novvs atlas Sinensis. Historic map, Library of Congress

Covers 16 provinces of China, Korea, and Japan. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text. Philips 3186 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. On verso of shelflist card: At th... More

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c. /

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) cha...

Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Cong... More

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c. /

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) cha...

Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Cong... More

Wu bei zhi / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Wu bei zhi / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Wu bei zhi / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Wu bei zhi / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Wu bei zhi / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

A map of the Kingdom of Whidah - Public domain old map

A map of the Kingdom of Whidah - Public domain old map

Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. The Schomburg Center for Research in ... More

Map of the mouth of the River Kongo or Zayre, with the adjacent coast

Map of the mouth of the River Kongo or Zayre, with the adjacent coast

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

America noviter delineata - Public domain vintage map

America noviter delineata - Public domain vintage map

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

Spetsial'naia karta Ukrainy G.de Boplana1650g. Tekst str.21

Spetsial'naia karta Ukrainy G.de Boplana1650g. Tekst str.21

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

Savoia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain vintage map

Savoia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain vintage 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

Geldria., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map

Geldria., 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

Zelandia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map

Zelandia., 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

Franconia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map

Franconia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old 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

Siciliae descriptio., Abraham Ortelius

Siciliae descriptio., Abraham Ortelius

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

Livonia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map

Livonia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old 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

La Mans, Cenomanorum Typus., Abraham Ortelius

La Mans, Cenomanorum Typus., Abraham Ortelius

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

Pas caerte van Nieu Nederlandt en de engelsche Virginies van Cabo Cod tot Cabo Canrick [Cape Hatteras].

Pas caerte van Nieu Nederlandt en de engelsche Virginies van Cabo Cod ...

Public domain image of a navigation map, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description:

A new map of the English plantations in America.

A new map of the English plantations in America.

Public domain image of a navigation map, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description:

Nova totivs Americæ descriptio. - Public domain old map

Nova totivs Americæ descriptio. - Public domain old map

Public domain image of a navigation map, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description:

Tercera, islands ; Canary, islands ; Islands of Cape Verd.

Tercera, islands ; Canary, islands ; Islands of Cape Verd.

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

Paskaerte van't westelijckste der Middelandsche Zee.

Paskaerte van't westelijckste der Middelandsche Zee.

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, Maryland, Pennsilvania, east & west New Jarsey. nautical chart

Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, east & west New Jarsey. nautical cha...

Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Americae nova tabula - Public domain vintage map

Americae nova tabula - Public domain vintage map

Public domain image of a navigation map, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description:

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Craven, Palatine John, Earl of Bath, George, Lord Cartaret, Anthony, Lord Ashley, Sr. John Colleton, Barrt., Thomas Archdale. Thomas Amy, and the hieres of Seth Sothell, esqrs.:: this new map of the chief rivers, bayes, creeks, harbours, and settlements in South Carolina actually surveyed is humbly dedicated by John Thornton & Robt. Morden

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Craven, Palatine John, Earl o...

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

Yŏji yoram. Historic map, Library of Congress

Yŏji yoram. Historic map, Library of Congress

Romanized. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga37 2010-12--22 天下地圖 -- 中國地圖 -- 朝鮮八道圖 -- 京畿道 -- 忠清道 -- 全羅道 -- 慶尚道 -- 江原道 -- 咸鏡道 -- 平安道 -- 黄海道 -- 日本國圖 -- 琉球國圖.

Yŏji yoram. Historic map, Library of Congress

Yŏji yoram. Historic map, Library of Congress

Romanized. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga37 2010-12--22 天下地圖 -- 中國地圖 -- 朝鮮八道圖 -- 京畿道 -- 忠清道 -- 全羅道 -- 慶尚道 -- 江原道 -- 咸鏡道 -- 平安道 -- 黄海道 -- 日本國圖 -- 琉球國圖.

[Shandong, Zhili, Shengjing hai jiang tu], Qingdao China

[Shandong, Zhili, Shengjing hai jiang tu], Qingdao China

Scale ca. 1:125,000. Title supplied. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Shows coastal defenses of Shandong, Hebei, and Liaoning Provinces. Hummel gift 1962, no. 6. Availab... More

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain old map

[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

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain old map

[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

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain old map

[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

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain old map

[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

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain old map

[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

Accuratissima Brasiliæ tabula. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Nova et accvrata Poli Arctici : et terrarum circum iacentium descriptio

Nova et accvrata Poli Arctici : et terrarum circum iacentium descripti...

Coloring with water colors and illumination with gold and silver ascribed to D.J. v. Santen. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 2-81 Vault

Description de la Nouvelle France, ou, sont remarquées les diverses habitations des françois, despuis la première descouverte jusques à present, receuillie et dressée sur diverses relations modernes

Description de la Nouvelle France, ou, sont remarquées les diverses ha...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 8-85B Vault

Partie meridio. le du royaume d'Irlande, ou sont la province de Mounster, et partie des prov.ces [sic] de Leinster, et Connaugh.

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

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

A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into countyes, townships, and lotts /

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

Imperii sinarum nova descriptio - Public domain old map

Imperii sinarum nova descriptio - Public domain old map

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in: Clüver's Introductionio in universam geographiam tam veterem quam novam ... Venduntur Amstelaedami : Apud Joannem Wolters, 1697. In upper right corner: Tab. 37. Includes il... More

Plano de la Ysla del Escudo de Beraguas situado en la latitud norte de 8 gros. y en la longitud de 305 gros. 50 mo. meridiano del Cuerboz.

Plano de la Ysla del Escudo de Beraguas situado en la latitud norte de...

Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Cuerboz. Watermark: Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and yellow watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 675 Available also through the Library... More

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