Antique Nautical Charts and Ephemera

Baye de Matance dans l'isle de Cube. nautical chart

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A chart of Delaware Bay and River : containing a full and exact descri...

Scale ca. 1:275,000. Oriented with north to the right. Depths shown by soundings. Shows ship channels. Includes list of subscribers and "Tide table." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

Plan de Port Royal et de la rivière et du détroit d'Awfoskée à la côte...

Scale ca. 1:90,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Paris. Depths shown by soundings. Includes "Avertissement." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1535 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as... More

A new and correct chart of North America from Cape-Cod, to the Havanna...

Scale ca. 1:1,250,000. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the upper left. LC copy imperfect: Small hole in bottom. Includes notes. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 769 Available also thro... More

A chart of the WHITE SEA with the River Dwina

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A chart of the sea coast from ENGLAND to the STREIGHTS

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The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

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The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

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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

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

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

The West-India atlas, or, A compendious description of the West-Indies...

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A large chart of the BAY OF BISCAY nautical chart

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A chart of the BIGHT of BINNIN from Ningo Grande to R. Andoney

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A chart of the LEVANT or the sea coast of Egypt, Syria, Caramania and ...

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[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

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

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A chart of Delawar Bay, with soundings and nautical observations.

Scale ca. 1:150,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy imperfect: Deteriorated along left and right margins. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Plan de la baie et du havre de Casco et des îles adjacentes,

Scale ca. 1:85,000. Depths shown by soundings. Plate no. "335." Appears in France. Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine's Neptune Americo-Septentrional. 1778-80. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 843 Avail... More

Bowles's new pocket map of the Atlantic or Western Ocean.

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A new and correct large draught PLYMOUTH SOUND catt-water and ham-owse

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A new chart of the BAHAMA ISLANDS and the Windward Passage

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A chart of the eastermost part of the EAST INDIES and CHINA, from Cape...

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[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

Carte particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie, la Nouvelle Ia...

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

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

A new and correct Mapp of the WORLD nautical chart

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A new and correct large draught of the tradeing part of the WEST INDIE...

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The city and harbour of CADIZ nautical chart

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[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the nort...

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A large draught from Benjar on the Island of BORNEO to Macasser on the...

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A chart of coast of ANGOLA from R Ambris to Mount Negro

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A chart of the sea coast of SPAIN from the Straits mouth to C de Gat a...

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A chart of the STRAITS of GIBRALTER nautical chart

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Chart of the coast of Maine / nautical chart

Relief shown by hachures on some sheets. Depths shown by soundings on some sheets. On some sheets: Entered according to Act of Congress, by Capt. Seward Porter, in the year 1837, in the Clerks office of the Dis... 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

[Mount Desert Island and neighboring coast of Maine. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:49,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows coast of Hancock County, Maine. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

Mouth and bar of Pearl River, Island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands /

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A chart of the SOUTH SEA Texel and Flieftream with Amelander gat

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A chart of Delaware Bay and River : containing a full and exact descri...

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A chart of the Atlantic or Western Ocean nautical chart

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A large draught of the GOLF of PERSIA nautical chart

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The harbor of Annapolis / nautical chart

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Pacific Coast from San Francisco Bay to the Strait of Juan de Fuca /

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S202 Includes table of sea coast lights and notes. In top left margin: No. 602. In top center margin: Plate no.... More

Puerto Rico, Bahía de San Juan / nautical chart

Relief shown by contours. Depths shown by contours and soundings. "Caution. This chart has been corrected from the Notice to mariners published weekly ..." Available also through the Library of Congress Web sit... More

The chart of the Leeth of BERGEN from Schuytenes to Bergen

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A large draught of New England, New York and Long Island ; Boston Harb...

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The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

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The coasts of PORTUGALL and part of SPAIN from Cape Finisterre to Gibr...

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Descripcion de las costas, islas placeres, i bajos delas, Indias Occid...

Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Shows the Atlantic coast of southern U.S., Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. "Sibre para Domingo de Belasco Pilo to d... More

Carte générale de l'Océan Atlantique ou Occidental, nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:12,000,000. Depths shown by soundings. Mercator projection. Prime meridian: Paris. "No. 20." LC copy annotated in red to plot voyage from Brest to "F. Dauphin" in Haiti. Available also through the L... More

A chart of the coast of America : from New York and Philadelphia to th...

Nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures in selected areas. Depths shown by soundings. In lower margin of each of the original sheets: A New Edition. London, Published as the Act directs, March 1st 1837, by J.W... More

Chesapeake Bay, Sheet no. 1, York River, Hampton Roads, Chesapeake ent...

Scale 1:80,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 47.5 At head of title: Coast chart no. 31. Printed in the upper margin: "No. 131" and "Electrotype copy no. 2 by G. Mathiot, U.S.C.S." General chart indicating sound... More

A chart of coast SWEDEN from Oeland to Stockholm nautical chart

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The Atlantic Neptune, 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

A chart of the CARIBE ILANDS nautical chart

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Maps of East and West Florida. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:500,000. Cover title. Alternate title from Peter Force's catalog of printed maps: Florida and its vicinity. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "To the Marine Society of the city 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

[Marshall Islands stick chart, Meddo type]. nautical chart

Title and date supplied by cataloger. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Model housed in a cloth covered box with a clear plastic cover. "This type of stick chart used by... More

A draught of the harbour of BREST and the Trade of Ras Fountaine shewi...

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[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the nort...

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New York Harbor and entrance : from the U.S. Coast Surveys

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A chart of coast of BARBARY from C. Bajadore to the Golfe of St. Anne

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A new chart of the ARCHIPELAGO nautical chart

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A sea chart of the Gulph of VENICE describing all the sea coasts and I...

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Chart of the coast of Maine / nautical chart

Relief shown by hachures on some sheets. Depths shown by soundings on some sheets. On some sheets: Entered according to Act of Congress, by Capt. Seward Porter, in the year 1837, in the Clerks office of the Dis... 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

[Coast of Maine showing Blue Hill Bay, Penobscot Bay, Belfast Bay, Isl...

Scale ca. 1:48,500. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy imperfect: Brittle on edges and deterioration along fold. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 859 Available also through the Lib... More

[Marshall Islands stick chart, Mattang type]. nautical chart

Title and date supplied by cataloger. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Model housed in a cloth covered box with a clear plastic cover. "This class of stick chart was us... More

[Marshall Islands stick chart, Rebbelib type]. nautical chart

Title and date supplied by cataloger. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Model housed in a cloth covered box with a clear plastic cover. Square rebbelib used by the Marsh... More

A new and correct chart of the sea coast of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND and IREL...

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[Charts of the coast of Florida] nautical chart

Scales vary. Title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America. 1901. p. 280. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Imperfect: Deteriorated in margins. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by sound... More

The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

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[Book of running charts of the Yukon and Stewart rivers, 1913-1950 /

Title devised from content of atlas. Holograph. Accompanied by typed letter to George H. Wallace which describes the work of river pilots on the Yukon and Stewart rivers. Available also through the Library of C... More

Terra nova, ac maris tractus circa Novam Franciam, Angliam, Belgium, V...

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A chart of the GOLD COAST in GUINEA from the River St. John to the Riv...

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[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea ca. 1320-1350 : manuscript ch...

Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa. Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; also covers western part of Black Sea. Oldest original cartographic... More

A plan of Port Royal in South Carolina. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:63,360. Depths shown by soundings. Described and dated 1776 in William P. Cumming's The Southeast in early maps. Dated 1773 in Essays honoring Lawrence C. Wroth. Includes "Explanation." LC Maps of N... More

Carte réduite des côtes et de l'interieur de la presqu' île de la Flor...

Scale ca. 1:1,600,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Paris. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. In lower margin: No. 2.H., N. 1.H et 2.H. Ensemble, Prix trois lives. LC Maps of North America, 1... More

Carte réduite des côtes orientales de l'Amérique septentrionale. Conte...

Scale ca. 1:1,800,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Paris. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 110; 651/... More

A new chart of the Mediterranean Sea / nautical chart

Depths shown by soundings in selected areas. Statement of dedication: To the Right Honorable Horatio Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, Rear Admiral of the Blue, and Knight of the Milita... More

A new and correct chart shewing the goeing over the Braces with the sa...

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[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

[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

[Coast of Maine showing entrances of Blue Hill Bay, Isle of Haut Bay, ...

Scale ca. 1:48,500. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Deterioration along the bottom right edges... More

[Coast of Maine from Salter Island to Portland Head. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:48,000. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Soundings shown in feet. LC copy imperfect: Deterioration along folds. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 856 Available also through the Library of Co... More

A chart of the NORTH-WEST coast of IRELAND from LOUGH SWILLY to SLYNE ...

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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 chart of coasts of GABON, LOANGO and CONGO from C. St. Iohn to the R...

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[Eastern Mediterranean Sea] ; Gulf of Smiran ; Bay of Scanderoon. naut...

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[Chart of Plymouth Bay. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Hand colored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 960 Vault AACR2

A plan of the east part of Long Island Sound from remarks made on boar...

Scale ca. 1:127,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy annotated: By Lieutt. Knatchbull, Recd. 31 Jany. 1778. Includes directions for navigatio... 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

A new chart of the vast Atlantic Ocean : exhibiting the seat of war, b...

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Philippine Islands / Historic map, Library of Congress nautical chart

"Apr. 1933--Reissued 1940." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. In lower left margin: 33--4/28, 35--4/17, 40--2/17. In upper left margin: No. 4200. LC copy includes hand-writte... More

[Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Mexico to northern Chile].

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A chart of the sea coast of IRELAND from Dublin to London-Derry ; Loug...

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