age of discovery

De insulis nuper in mari Indico repertis

Christopher Columbus discovering America. Illus. in: In laudem Serenissimi Ferdinandi, Hispania[rum] Regis, Bethicae & regni Granatae obsidio victoria & triu[m]phus. Et De insulis in mari Indico nuper inuentis ... more

Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, d...

Discovery of America: Vespucci Landing in America

Discovery of America: Vespucci Landing in America

Christopher Columbus

Engraving by Johann Theodor de Bry. Proof impression of the plate printed on page 3 of Theodor de Bry, ed., Americae pars quinta (German edition: Americae das funffte Buch), Frankfurt, 1595. (Copies in Rosenwal... more

Portret van Ferdinand Magellan

Portret van de Portugese ontdekkingsreiziger Ferdinand Magellan, eronder zijn devies in het Latijn. In het randschrift van de omlijsting de naam en functie van de geportretteerde in het Latijn. In de hoeken glo... more

Titelpagina van het pamflet: Den Spaenschen ende Arragoenschen spiegel...

Titelprent van een pamflet getiteld: Den Spaenschen ende Arragoenschen spiegel. Inde welcke men mach claerlick ende waerachtich sien tot wat eynde ... het voornemen is ... van 't Spaensche Crijchsvolck, dat hem... more

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], Amerigo Vespucci Discov...

[Dutch soldiers battling natives at Strait of Magellan. Chile. ca. 160...

Illus. in: Theodore De Bry, America, Pt. 9, Frankfurt, 1601, plate VII. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Water; Publ. Ind.; Warfare, Naval; Port. Hist.; Neth. ... more

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

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

Sunshū fuchū oshiro no zu.

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows the plan, and the layout of the Sunpujō castle in Shizuoka-shi, Japan. Ms. the copier and the date not known. Title from title piece mounted on cover. "Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku zō... more

Descripsion des costs, pts., rades, illes de la Nouuele France faict s...

Shows coast of North America from western Nova Scotia to Cape Cod. Relief shown pictorially. Gift; Henry Harrisse; 1910. Pen-and-ink with green wash. Vellum chart collection, no. 15. LC Nautical charts on vellu... more

Descripsion des costs, pts., rades, illes de la Nouuele France faict s...

Leo Belgicus.

Gezicht op de stad Bantam

Op de voorgrond begroeten twee Europeanen een groepje oosterlingen, dat zit te rusten op een landtong. Daarachter de zee met de Nederlandse vloot. Op de achtergrond de stad Bantam. In de wolken een allegorische... more

[Terrestrial globe gores].

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 Mexico City and environs, showing some buildings] / Samuel Est...

Engraving by Samuel Estradanus. Illus. in: Diego Cisneros' Sitio, naturaleza y propriedades dela Ciudad de Mexico (1618). Reference copy may be in Geog. File (Graphics) Mexico Mexico City. This record contains ... more

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

[Map of Straits of Magellan, showing Patagonian Indians greeting Dutch...

Vrouw uit Virginia

Speelkaart met een voorstelling van een staande vrouw in exotische dracht uit Virginia. Tekst in ondermarge. Genummerd linksboven: 9.

Map of the Strait of Magellan

Illus. in: Nodal. Relacion del viaj́e qve por orden de Sv Mag.d y acverdo del Real consejo de Indias (Madrid, 1621). Reference copy may be in SSF - MAPS. This record contains unverified, old data from caption c... more

[Map of northern coast of S. America, showing mouths of Amazon and Ori...

Illus. in: Reys-Boeck van het rijcke, Brasilien (Dordrecht?,1624). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, and subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Maps; South America; Snakes; Braz... more

Virginia /

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.

New England.

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

Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

[Title page illus. with ship VICTORIA and bust portraits of circumnavi...

Andalusia et Granada [Material cartográfico]

Márgenes graduados.

Noua orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano...

Accuratissima Brasiliæ tabula.

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

Venezuela, cum parte Auftrali Novae Andalausiae.

Place names in Spanish. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 2 copies; 1 copy as of 07/27/98 Vault

[Sphendonē], hoc est, fvnda Posidonii.

From Bertius' Ancient Geography. Paris, 1630. In Latin and Greek. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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

Also shows the southeast Pacific Ocean, the southwest Indian Ocean, as well as the continents of South America, Africa, Europe, and portions of North America and Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied b... more

[Map of the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico].

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

[Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Flo...

Shows coastal features, Native American nations and settlements, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harr... more

[Map of the Peninsula of Florida].

Depths shown by soundings. Shows the Peninsula of Florida and adjacent islands from Rio de las Flores and includes coastline, coastal features, and pictorial representation of palm trees along the Atlantic Coas... more

Pascaert van Nieuw Nederlandt Virginia, ende Nieuw-Engelandt verthonen...

De Eylanden en Vastelanden van Westindien /

[Map of the complete island of Cuba].

Noort Rivier in Niew Neerlandt.

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the Hudson River from Manhattan Island to Albany, natural features, and other geographical entities in the region. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attribut... more

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

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

Caert vande Svydt Rivier in Niew Nederland.

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the region of the Delaware Bay and river, natural features, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons... more

Africae nova tabula /

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

America noviter delineata /

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

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

Mulier ex Virginia

Vrouw uit Virginia, Amerika. Overgenomen van Thoedor de Bry, naar tekening van John white in Thomas Harriot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virgina, Frankfurt, 1590.

Portret van een Amerikaanse Indiaan uit Virginia

Novvelle et exacte description dv globe terrestre

Includes illustrations of the seasons and the elements, notes, and two celestial hemispheres. According to Shirley, the map is based on one by Visscher, rather than Blaeu. Illustrations of costumes: Francois --... more

Dordracvm ; Briela.

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

[Map with border illus. of cherubs using navigational instruments]

Illus. in: Johannes Hevelius, Selenographie, Gedani, Autoris sumtibus, typis Hünefeldianis, 1647, map between pp. 226-227. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption car... more

Provincia Andalusiae [Material Cartográfico]

Márgenes graduados.

Delineatio generalis Camporum Desertorum vulgo Ukraina : cum adjacenti...

Scale ca. 1:1,750,000. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the bottom. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text in Latin and French and ill. Vault AACR2

Amérique septentrionale /

Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Prime meridian: [Paris]. Mounted on cloth backing. From his 1658 (i.e. 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (Phillips 4260). First state: Lacks shading ... more

[Map of Lesser Antilles].

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

The figure of the World.

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

[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

[Map of a part of the island of Cuba and of the Bahamas].

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 156 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Assyria vetvs diuifa in Syriam, Messopotamiam, Babyloniam, et Assyriam...

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

Description du pais des Hurons.

Shows part of Ontario extending from Georgian Bay on the north (Partie du Grand Lac des Hurons) to Lake Ontario on the south and from Lake Huron on the west to Lake Simcoe on the east (Lac Oventarenk). Relief s... more

Les estats de la couronne de Castille dans les parties plus meridional...

Márgenes graduados.

America Septentrionalis /

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

Portret van Thales van Milete

Portret van de ontdekkingsreiziger Ferdinand Magellan, in dit album gebruikt als afbeelding van Thales van Milete, een van de zeven wijzen van Griekenland. De begeleidende tekst begint met een kleine gedecoreer... more

Portretten van de rechters Ibsan en Elon

Portretten van Sigismund II August van Polen en Hernán Cortés van Mexico, in dit album gebruikt als afbeeldingen van respectievelijk Ibsan en Elon, twee oudtestamentische rechters. De begeleidende tekst begint ... more

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

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

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

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

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

Le Bresil.

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

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nouvlle. Gallice, Iucatan &c. : et autr...

Appeared in Sanson's Cartes générales de la géographie ... 1676. Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 486 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

La Floride /

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

Paskaarte om achter Yrlant om te zeylen, van Hitlant tot aen Heÿssant.

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Granata, et Murcia Regna [Material cartográfico]

Escala hallada a partir de un grado de latitud; también expresada en: 14 milliaria Hispanica communia.

Korte beschryvinge van de landschappen des werelts enz.

Scales vary. Title from leather label on cover. Label has monogram E. B. de V., surmounted by a crown. Maps, not dated, intended to be bound in a Bible, but assembled in a modern half Morocco binding. The maps... more

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

[Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula].

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. ill. in margins. Vault

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.

[Map showing "Insula Atlantis", the lost continent of Atlantis]

Illus. in: Mundus Subterraneus, by Athanasius Kircher, 1665. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Archaeology; Mythology; Volcanoes; Geogr.; Maps; Publ. Ind.

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

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Nova Persiæ, Armeniæ, Natoliæ, et Arabiæ /

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

Plano del pt. de Valparayzo cituado en la costa de Chile en 33 gs. de ...

Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Watermark: IV. Watermark dated from 1668-1812. Pen-and-ink and red ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 243 Available... more

[Three maps of the cosmological systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Br...

Title supplied by cataloger. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy assembled from three separate maps, trimmed and mounted on sheet. LC copy imperfect... more

Manatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier.

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

Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala.

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Ogilby's America and Montanus' De nieuwe en onbekende weerld. 1671. Phillips, Maps of America, pp. 404 and 405. Ogilby, John, America, pp. 238-239. Available also through th... more

Brasilia.

From the author's De Nieuwe en onbekende weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't zuid-land..., 1671 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth backing.

Discreçion de la Villa surjidero y puerto de guetaria [Material cartog...

Al verso de la segunda hoja: "Nº 3. Planta de la Villa de Guetaria y su Puerto" "Con carta de D. Baltasar de Rojas f[ec]ha 16 D[iciemb]re 1673. Leg. 2300. Cop[ia]do p[ar]a el Brig[adi]er Cor[one]l Aparici hoy 2... more

Virginia and Maryland as it is planted and inhabited this present year...

Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes cartouche, portait of Augustine Herrman, text, and ill. Vault

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

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

La Russie Noire ou Polonaise : qui comprend les provinces de la Russie...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes legend titled "Remarques" and 9 bar scales. LC copy annotated in ink, laminated, and mounted on clot... more

Vasco da Gama op audiëntie bij koning van Calcutta

Vasco da Gama op audiëntie bij koning van Calcutta

Vasco da Gama en zijn gevolg buigen voor de koning van Calcutta. De koning ligt op een troon onder een baldakijn. Op de achtergrond gezicht op Calcutta.

Vasco da Gama op audiëntie bij koning van Calcutta

Vasco da Gama en zijn gevolg buigen voor de koning van Calcutta. De koning ligt op een troon onder een baldakijn. Op de achtergrond gezicht op Calcutta.

[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

Plan de la ville de Puicerda [Material cartográfico] : pris en 1678

Mapa gravat amb les posicions durant els atacs. Xarxa de camins, arbres i conreus. Xarxa hidrogràfica. Ombrejat del relleu = Mapa grabado con las posiciones durante los ataques. Red de caminos, árboles y cultiv... more

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

L'Asie, : Selon les nouvelles observations de Mess.rs de l'Academie de...

Relief shown pictorially. Insets maps: Kamchadka to Korea to Indo-China; Beijing, China to Yellow Sea. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.