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Orbis typus universalis iuxta hydrographorum traditionem exactissime d...

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

Naval Battle between Dutch Warships and Spanish Galleons

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

Chess set, 17th century - Public domain photo of museum object

Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Zeemeermin van Edam, 1403 - Engraving, Public domain image

De zeemeermin of Groene Wijf van Edam, 1403. Zeemeermin in het water met in de handen een wapenbord. In de verte de stad Edam. Met onderschrift van twee kolommen.

Verovering van de Zilvervloot in de Baai van Matanzas door admiraal Pi...

Public domain image related to Dutch colonies, East-Indies, Dutch East India Company, Asia, age of discovery, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Map of the complete island of Cuba].

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

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.

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

Vespucci, Amerigo - Public domain portrait engraving

1667 / 1700 Public domain scan of artwork in Austrian National Library, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carte tres curieuse de la Mer du Sud, contenant des remarques nouvelle...

Richly decorated in the tradition of Dutch cartography, this map extends from eastern Asia to western Europe but focuses on the Pacific Ocean and the Americas. It is attributed to Henri Abraham Chatelain, a Hug... More

Zeegezicht met schepen en boten op een kalme zee

Public domain image related to Dutch colonies, East-Indies, Dutch East India Company, Asia, age of discovery, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A new chart of New Holland on which are delineated New South Wale, and...

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

[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

The Isthmus of Panama with the coast from Great River on the Moskito s...

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

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

A map of the Caribbee, Granadilles and Virgin Isles,

Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown pictorially. European possessions shown by color. On verso: [Plate no.] 15. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a r... More

A chart of Nantucket Shoals - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collect...

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

Gezicht van de zeeslag bij Copenhagen, 1801

Public domain image related to Dutch colonies, East-Indies, Dutch East India Company, Asia, age of discovery, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Second view of Com. Perry's victory / M. Cornè p. ; W.B. Annin sc.

Print shows American warships under the command of Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry, firing on British warships during the Battle of Lake Erie. Printed above image: Engraved for the Naval Monument. Published in: Th... More

map from "[History of the United States of America, ... extending from...

This image has been taken from scan 000238 from "[History of the United States of America, ... extending from the discovery of America by Columbus to the present time, etc.]". The title and subject terms of thi... More

Isaac Greve - Hollands Admiraals-Schip

Blad met 2 voorstellingen. Boven: een voorstelling van het Hollands Admiraals-Schip op zee, van opzij gezien, met op de achtergrond twee andere schepen, alle met de Hollandse vlag. Onder: een voorstelling van d... More

Canaan, or The Land of promise. - Public domain old map

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

De schepen De Parel en De Dubbele Arend

Kopie in spiegelbeeld. Twee koopvaardijschepen op zee vlak bij land. Links De Dubbele Arend, een West-indiëvaarder en rechts De Parel, een Oost-indiëvaarder.

Ondergang van de Spaanse Armada, 1588

Ondergang van de Spaanse Armada of Onoverwinnelijke vloot, tussen 31 juli en 12 augustus 1588. Zeeslag tussen de Spaanse en Engelse vloot in het Kanaal tussen Dover en Calais bij Grevelingen, op 7 en 8 augustus... More

Gezicht op de rede van Kaap de Goede Hoop

Public domain image related to Dutch colonies, East-Indies, Dutch East India Company, Asia, age of discovery, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Bernard Picart - Weduwen van Amerikaanse Indianen uit Florida

Blad met twee voorstellingen van weduwen van Amerikaanse Indianen uit Florida. Boven: Een groep vrouwen die hun echtgenoot in de strijd hebben verloren zit geknield rond het opperhoofd. Ze wenen en vragen hem o... More

Lord Howe evacuating Boston March 1776

Engraving by J. Godfrey after M.A. Wageman. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US History Revolution, 1775-1783 Campaigns & battles; Massachusetts; Shelf.

Preliminary chart of Calibogue Sound and Skull Creek forming inside pa...

Scale 1:40,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 368a.4 From its Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1862 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1... More

map from "The Identity of Ophir and Taprobane, and their site indicate...

This image has been taken from scan 000006 from "The Identity of Ophir and Taprobane, and their site indicated ... Reprinted from the “Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology,” etc. [With a map.]". T... More

map from "Calcoen. A Dutch narrative of the second voyage of Vasco da ...

This image has been taken from scan 000006 from "Calcoen. A Dutch narrative of the second voyage of Vasco da Gama to Calicut, printed at Antwerp circa 1504. [A facsimile.] With introduction and translation by J... More

Passenger steamship collection - Passagerarfartyg, Fo136120C

Fo136120C Public domain photograph of ship dock, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

map from "The Last Voyage ... 1887. [Lady Brassey's journals and notes...

This image has been taken from scan 000016 from "The Last Voyage ... 1887. [Lady Brassey's journals and notes of her last voyage in the “Sunbeam”; edited by Lady Barker. With a brief memoir by Lord Brassey. Wit... More

[The Viking Ship] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Map of the republic of Guatemala / - Public domain map

Relief shown by hachures. "Map of the boundary lines at various epochs between Guatemala and Mexico, projected by Miles Rock. Guatemala Commission of the Boundary with Mexico, Guatemala City, January 12, 1895."... More

Travel views of Cuba and Guatemala

Public domain photograph related to Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clorita - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spanish sailors and sonder class boats going to London

Public domain photograph - historical image of England, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sailors on Newport, U.S.N. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Full rigged, four-masted sailing ship

Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbus returning to Spain in chains [on board ship]

Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aan boord van de 'Koningin Wilhelmina'

Groepsfoto van de bemanning en gasten aan dek van het schip de 'Koningin Wilhelmina', Paramaribo, april 1911. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum van de familie Boom-Gonggrijp in Suriname en Curaçao.

TITANIC survivors on way to rescue-ship CARPATHIA

Photo related to the disaster of the RMS TITANIC, which struck an iceberg in April 1912 and sank, killing more than 1,500 people. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Colle... More

Flygfoto överStockholm. Vy över Saltsjöns inlopp.

Leviathan group, 6/25/23 - Public domain ocean liner image

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Autmobile racer] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Berks County - ...

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Berks County

Shipyard employees stand beside the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Long Beach Naval Shipyard State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Gary Ballard Release Status:... More

Inauguration du canal de Suez. Depart de la flotte de Suez (instantane...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A new map shewing the travels of the patriarchs, as also of the childr...

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

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

A general map of South America : from the best surveys, 1796

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: London. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Tartarische mannen - Public domain portrait drawing

Collection of book illustrations from various sources selected by BibliOdyssey. Public domain photograph of 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

8th Army Victory Helps Malta- Convoys, Protected From Libyan Air Bases...

8th Army Victory Helps Malta- Convoys, Protected From Libyan Air Bases, Bring Enough Supplies For Months. 4 December 1942, in the Central Mediterranean, Aboard HMS Euryalus. A convoy nearing Malta as seen from ... More

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A24380

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Picture shows a flak landing craft going inshore to support the landings by shelling enemy shore positions. With smoke covering the landing area a Landing Craft Flak a... More

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A7516

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The ship's company of HMS VICTORIOUS at Sunday Divisions marching past the Captain, Captain H C Bovell, CBE, RN, who is taking the salute. Fairey Albacore planes of 82... More

Guadalcanal campaign. US Navy in WW2. 80-G-10756 (31183044255)

80-G-10756: Guadalcanal Invasion, August 1942. Supplies piled high on the beach at Guadalcanal Island. Photographed 1942. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/11/25).

Battle at Manila, Spanish-American War, 1 May 1898 (26038106060)

Lot 3034-6: Spanish-American War, April-August 1898. Battle at Manila, 1 May 1898. Detroit Publishing Company. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/04/08).

US Navy in World War I Lot-6112-1 (30588308196)

Lot-6112-1: “German aircraft over the Royal Navy fleet.” Translated from German publication, “Our Air Fleet in the World War.” Artwork by Hans Rudolf Schulze. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/10/28).

U.S. Navy ironclad monitor, USS Nahant, men and ship mascot (256071024...

Lot 3000-D-7: U.S. Navy ironclad monitor, USS Nahant, ship mascot. Detroit Publishing Company, 1890-1910. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/03/18)

"34th CB's trading with natives from Malaita. Left to right, native, P...

Public domain photograph related to US Navy, United States military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Maine entering Harbor of Havana. Scribners Collection, 01-1898 - N...

General notes: Use War and Conflict Number 270 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image.

Baptista Agnese Januensis fecit Venetijs anno domini 1543 die 25 juny

Français : Atlas nautique du Monde. Baptista Agnese Januensis fecit Venetijs anno domini 1543 die 25 juny

London Bridge from the Pool (BM 1880,1113.1604)

View from the Thames of London Bridge; Southwark Cathedral at far left and the Monument at far right; in foreground many people on boats of different sizes, some with tall masts; Southwark Bridge and Blackfriar... More

William Dickinson - Patience in a Punt (BM 1868,0822.7135)

Three elderly citizens in a punt which is propelled by a boy (left) wearing trousers. Two are fishing: one stands, 'chapeau-bras', the other, who is obese, sits in a chair. The third (right) sits in a chair smo... More

The Storm rising;-or-The Republican Flotilla in danger. (BM 1868,0808....

(For description see other impression). 1 February 1798 Hand-coloured etching.

"Naval Engagement in Hampton Roads."

Print of the Merrimac and Monitor ironclad ships in Hampton Roads in foreground with several other ships in background. List of ships is below image. "NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN HAMPTON ROADS." (printed above image). ... More

Beechey - Battle of the Nile

A painting depicting the height of the Battle of the Nile

1765 Bonne Map of West Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, and Benin - Geograp...

This is a rare and attractive 1765 J. N. Bellin nautical chart or map of West Africa. Depicts the African coast from Sierra Leone south past the Bay of Benin and the Gulf of Guinea to Cape Lopez. This roughly... More

1781 Japanese Temmei 1 Manuscript Map of Taiwan and the Ryukyu Dominio...

This extraordinary discovery is a previously unknown 1781 (Temmei 1 ) manuscript map of Taiwan and the Satsuma Daimyo. This rare map covers from the southern shores of Kyushu south along the Ryukyu Islands (in... More

1865 Bellin Sea Chart of Western Africa ( Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, etc...

This large nautical chart of Western African was produced by the French Cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. Depicts Western Africa from The Canary Islands South through Western Sahara, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau,... More

Danish vessel Christian VIII showing other vessels including Neptune a...

Danish vessel Christian VIII showing other vessels including Neptune and steam vessel Kiel Title in Danish below image. Danish vessel Christian VIII showing other vessels including Neptune and steam vessel Kiel

The Attack on the Barrier Forts Near Canton, China by the American Squ...

The Attack on the Barrier Forts Near Canton, China by the American Squadron... Nov 21st 1856 - consisting of the US Sloops of War Portsmouth and Levant with the Officers and Crew of the Steam Frigate San Jacint... More

The H.C. Ship Bridgewater Capt J.R. Manderson, entering Madras Roads A...

The H.C. Ship Bridgewater Capt J.R. Manderson, entering Madras Roads April 10th 1830 under Jury Masts, after the Gales of the 7th of March Hand coloured aquatint showing the Bridgewater (1812) running into Madr... More

Aethiopia - Public domain vintage map

Collection of early maps from various sources by BibliOdyssey.

Mexico - Public domain vintage geogrpaphic map

Collection of early maps from various sources by BibliOdyssey.

Acamapichtli, the First Aztec King (Reigned 1376–95) WDL6718

Русский: Кодекс Товара, автором которого считается мексиканский иезуит XVI века Хуан де Товар, содержит подробную информацию об обрядах и церемониях ацтеков (известных также как мешика). Кодекс проиллюстрирован... More

Plate 10 The Indians (cropped) - Public domain book illustration

Account of an insurrection of the negro slaves in the colony of Demerara, which broke out on the 18th of August, 1823. Group of native Americans carrying sticks forms a semi-circle around a European officer on... More

Convento da Graça, Torres Vedras, Portugal (3585177900)

Silhar do Claustro: passos da vida de Frei Aleixo de Menezes. Azulejos do século 18. Fotógrafo: João Miguel dos Santos Simões (1907-1972). Data de produção da fotografia original: 1960-1970. [CFT009.1966.3.ic]

River Steamboat, South (NYPL b12647398-63068)

* Postcard series number: 6831 James Lee of the Lee Line (The line owned two boats with this name one built 1879, used until 1894; the other built 1898, sunk 1917)[1] 1902-1903. Transitioned to full-size illus... More

Nova Totius Terrarum orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula - no-nb...

Norsk bokmål: Kart fra Nasjonalbibliotekets kartsamling. Kartet er gitt ut i (1641) og viser Verdenskart.

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop ad circa 1905

Early ad for Ye Olde Curiosity Shop and Indian Curio, Seattle, Washington, later renamed simply Ye Olde Curiosity Shop and still active under that latter name as of 2008. Originally this would have appeared on ... More

Honolulu Harbor (07), photograph by Brother Bertram

Title: Honolulu Harbor Creator: Brother Bertram Subjects: Buildings; Mountains Island: Oahu City: Honolulu

CamperdownTate

Battle of Camperdown Public domain photograph of 18th-century British painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Komagata Maru incident VPL 13351 (11326359214)

Komagata Maru surrounded by smaller vessels VPL Accession Number: 13351 Date: 1914 Photographer/Studio: Unknown SUBJECTS: East Indians, East Indian Canadians, Sikhs, Sikh Canadians, Komagata Maru Incident, 191... More

Spezialkarte der Österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie - Triest 1900, S...

Deutsch: Spezialkarte der Österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie 1:75.000 - Triest 5751.

Johann Bayer, Lupus and Centaurus

1690 celestial map of the Southern Hemisphere by Ignace Gaston Pardies

Admiralty Chart No 1336 East Entrance of Magellan Strait from C. Virgi...

East Entrance of Magellan Strait from C. Virgins to the First Narrows. By Captain R.C. Mayne, R.N

Map of West Africa by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten

Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo & Angolae ultra Promentorium Bonae spei susq

The Battle of Actium, 2 September 31BC RMG BHC0251

The Battle of Actium, 2 September 31BC A representation of the naval Battle of Actium, 2 September 31 BC, which took place off the western coast of Greece. Octavian, through this decisive victory over the comb... More

Jiangshang Army2. Japanese empire during World War Two.

Jiangshang Army日本語: 江上軍 Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Admiralty Chart No 3421 Broadford Bay, Published 1904

Nautical chart of Broadford Bay, Isle of Skye at a scale of 1:20,410. Surveyed by Captains A Mostyn Field and Morris B. Smyth and the officers of H.M.S Surveying Ship Research 1855-6. Not current - not to be u... More

IWM A 012399 Madagascar

IWM caption : Troops disembarking from a landing craft assault (LCA 164) in Tamatave harbour, Madagascar's principle port.

26 Cornelis de Houtman

Nederlands: Cornelis de Houtman, Leider van de eersten tocht naar Indie 1595-1597 Geboren 1550 Gestorven 1599

Map of the Arctic - Public domain vintage map

Map of the Arctic

CostumeancienetAmerFerrA 0267 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Français : Jeu de los Porotos / Jeu de Queciucagué. Le Costume ancien et moderne ; ou, Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modern... More

Combate de Trafalgar, por Justo Ruiz Luna

Español: La obra representa la batalla de Trafalgar, que tuvo lugar el 21 de octubre de 1805 en el cabo de Trafalgar (Cádiz), entre la escuadra franco-española y la armada inglesa, resultando ésta última vencedora.

On Board a Slave-Ship, engraving by Swain c. 1835

Slaves aboard a slave ship being shackled before being put in the hold. A wooden engraving by Joseph Swain

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