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Tercia Europe tabula continet Gallia - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventha...

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

[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

Americae siue noui orbis, noua descriptio, Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598

Ortelius's map of the Americas was one of the most identifiable and most famous cartographic representations of the western hemisphere created during the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography. It enjoyed great popula... More

Scotia Regnum - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Wij Christina medh Gudz... - Public domain broadside, Library of Congr...

Svenskt offentligt tryck (WWW) 3304073 Title from beginning of text. Dated at end: Datum Stockholm then 8. martif åhr 1636. Place of printing and name of printer from SOT. Ornamental initial. Also available in... More

Hispaniae veteris descriptio - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collec...

Set in the kingdom of Navarre, Spain, Love's Labour's Lost is a romantic comedy about four young Spanish men, who, despite their best efforts to avoid romance and focus on their studies, fall in love with four ... More

Nova Hispania, et Nova Galicia - Gerhard Mercator 1512-1594

Americae - Jan van Den Velde - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collec...

Nova totius Americae sive novi orbis tabula Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Guillaume Sanson - Carte nouvelle de la mer mediterranee.

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

Tabula Tartariae et majoris partis Regni Chinae

Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Insulæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali ac regiones adiacentes : a C...

Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A new mapp of the Kingdom of Hungary and the states that have been sub...

Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library

[Map of northeastern coast of Venezuela including Trinidad and Tobago ...

Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: IV, J. Kool, and Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and yellow ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 988 Available also through the Library of Congress W... More

To his excellency William Burnet, esqr., this plan of Boston in New En...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows selected buildings pictorially. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermark indecipherable. Wheat & Brun no. 227. Includes index to selected buildings and embellished t... More

A new & accurate map of Persia, with the adjacent countries : drawn fr...

Relief shown pictorially. Has ornamental cartouche. From: Bowen's A complete system of geography. London : Printed for W. Innys, R. Ware [etc.], 1747. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as ... More

A new and accurate chart of the West Indies : with the adjacent coasts...

This chart was published in John Harris's "Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels". Although the chart also includes the eastern coast of the Americas, its m... More

Mapa y tabla geografica de leguas comunes que hay de unos á otros luga...

Shows North America. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. "Dedicada al exm̃o señor D. Agustín de Ahumada y Villalón, marqués de las Amarillas, ... virrey governador y captain general de esta Nueva Espana."... More

A Plan of the city & fortifications of Louisburg

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plano del puerto y río de Guayaquil /

Shows Gulf of Guayaquil. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Watermarks: Two unidentifiable watermarks. Pen-and-ink and brown ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 409 A... More

Plan of the town and fortifications of Montreal or Ville Marie in Cana...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plano de la ciudad de S. Juan de Puerto Rico.

Oriented with north toward the lower left. Pen-and-ink and watercolors. Indexed. Marbled paper mounted on verso. Date stamped and typewritten printed label mounted on marbled paper: Coleccion: José Ma. López de... More

[Battle of Bunker Hill. - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:3,900. Title from manuscript catalog of Peter Force map collection. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and pencil. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References" to points of military interest in different ha... More

A map of the British colonies in North America, with the roads, distan...

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. Fourth ed. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 43 Includes text and inset "A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late surveys of those c... More

Carte réduite des îles Antilles : au nord du 13me. degré de latitude ;...

Scale ca. 1:1,250,000 and ca. 1:1,300,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Paris. "Longitude occidentale du méridien de Paris pris à la Observatoire." Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "Dressé... More

This map of the province of Nova-Scotia and parts adjacent.

Scale ca. 1:3,750,000. Relief shown pictorially. Shows the Maritime Provinces, Newfoundland, and the St. Laurence River Valley between 1755 and 1757. Inscribed to "His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia ... " LC... 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 general map of the middle British colonies, in America. Containing V...

Scale ca. 1:2,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "The seat of war in the middle British colonies, containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, &ca." Inset: A sketch of the upper parts of ... More

A topographical map of the northn. part of New York Island, exhibiting...

Scale ca. 1:20,000. Hand colored. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes descriptive index. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2; 700

Red Banke. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications of Fort Mercer, N.J. currently located in Red ... More

Carte d'Amerique dressée pour l'usage du Roy.

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

A new map of the West Indies, - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:11,250,000. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown pictorially. Also shows Florida, eastern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1712 Available als... More

To his excellency the Count of Czernichew, Commander in Chief of her M...

Map of the present seat of war, between the Russians, Poles, and Turks | This map of the present seat of war, between the Russians, Poles, and Turks Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish territo...

Scale ca. 1:6,450,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Shows numerous boundary changes. Includes text. Includes historical notes and a color key. For a description of the second ... More

Plan of the city of Philadelphia. - Public domain map

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Insula S. Laurentii, vulgo Madagascar, Joan Blaeu 1596-1673

Insula Sancti Laurentii | Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester, exhibiting ...

Scale ca. 1:33,200. Hand colored. Shows soundings and disposition of ships, etc. Includes "A sketch of Fort Island" and "Profile and plan of the sunk frames or chevaux de frise which formed the stackadoes in th... More

South America as divided amongst the Spaniards and the Portuguese, the...

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

Design of the federal city, comparative plans of L'Enfant and Ellicott...

Shows major streets and avenues, plazas, and government buildings. "Ellicott's engraved plan superimposed on the plan of L'Enfant showing the changes made in the engraved plan under the direction of President W... More

Olney hymns in three books - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Preface signed: John Newton. 280 hymns by Newton, 68 by Cowper.--Cf. Dictionary of National Biography. Without music. Errata: p. [xxviii]; publisher's advertisement: p. [428]. Also available in digital form on ... More

The rigadoon royal Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majestys birth d...

engraven in characters & figures for the use of masters writ by Mr. de la Garde, dancing master ... (statement of responsibility) Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images... More

Mapa geográfico de la mayor parte de la América Meridional que contien...

Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing to fold to 32 x 25 cm. LC copy accompanied by 8 manuscript texts: namely 2 reports by Requena with other members of the expeditio... More

Calendarium - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Printed in red and black. Goff R-92 Hain-Copinger 13775 BM 15th cent., II, p. 456 (IA.7877) Schramm, XVIII, p. 5, 16, and illus. Rosenwald 25 ... More

The mysteries of nature and art, conteined in 4 severall tretises

Title page engr.; books 2-4 have special t.p. Bookplate of Howard C. Levis. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1480 ESTC S122341 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Examen fvcorvm psevdo-chymicorvm detectorvm et in gratiam veritatis am...

Title vignette. With his Atalanta fvgiens...Oppenheimii, 1618. LAC ecr 2018-09-06 LAC Review Completed 2018-09-11 LAC iak 2018-09-11

Das Buch der natürlichen Weiszheit, Augsburg, Bavaria

Attributed in this ed. (as in all mss. and early eds.) to a Cyrillus Episcopus, variously identified with Saint Cyrillus, Bp. of Jerusalem, Saint Cyrillus of Thessalonica, or Cyrillus de Quidenon. Cf. J.G.T. Gr... More

Musæum hermeticum, omnes sopho-spagyricæ artis discipulos fidelissime ...

Title within engr. border. Each tract has special engr. t.-p. LAC ecr 2018-09-06 LAC Review Completed 2018-09-10

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

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

Whole duty of woman - An old book with writing on it

Numbers 113-120 missed in pagination. Signatures: A-G¹². ESTC T64198 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy imperfect: first leaf wanting. LC copy includes bookplate of Walt... More

Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique angloise contenant tout ce que les Angloi...

Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Tobias Conrad Lotter's Atlas géographique. 1778. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Two copies. ... More

Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Engraved t.p. and tail-piece. With this is bound: Maier, Michael. Michaelis Majeri ... Secretioris naturæ secretorum scrutinium chymicum ... F... More

Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee ...

[Aihun, Luosha, Taiwan, Nei Menggu tu]

Scales differ. Manuscript on silk. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Bird's-eye view. Covers four frontier regions of the Manchu Dynasty, Aihun area, a military colony since the middle of the 17th centur... More

Chart of the Gulf Stream - 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

Elle présente en detail les muscles situés dans la main...., Pl. 13

Picryl description: Public domain image, detail, hands, palm, gloves, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gibson J. John Engraver - Map of Spanish Louisiana and the American co...

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

North America : according to the latest observations.

Plan of the city of Washington : now building for the metropolis of Am...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Astronomicum cæsareum

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Arrivall and Intertainements of the Embassador, Alkaid Jaurar Ben ...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Astronomicum cæsareum

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Astronomicum cæsareum

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Passio Christi. - Public domain medieval manuscript

Seventeen woodcuts on rectos with xylographic text in German on versos. Signatures: [a1 b¹⁶]. Rosenwald 24 Golitsyn, M.A. Cat. des livres, 1866, no. 58, p. 31-34 LC copy: initials and illus. hand-colored. LC c... More

Die Geschicht vnd Legend von dem seyligen Kind vnd Marterer genannt Sy...

Rosenwald 60 Goff T-489 Hain-Copinger 15658 BM 15th cent., II, p. 322 (IB.5478) Schramm, II, p. 16, 24, and illus. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy rubricated; illus. ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio. Anno Do: M D LXXXV...

Intended to accompany: Ubaldini, Petruccio. A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete invadinge Englande in the yeare 1588. Some of the plates are signed by Robert Adams, artist, and Augustine Ryther, engrav... More

Das Büchlin vo[n] dem sterbenden Me[n]schen.

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [3a]). A free translation of the Cordiale quattuor novissimorum, often erroneously attributed to Hans Münzinger. Cf. Franz Falk's Die deutschen Sterbebüchlein, 1890, p. 80. ... More

I quattro libri dell' architettura, ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato ...

Vols. 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary gilt vellum. Provenance: J. A. de Thou (with his signature) Robert Hoe, Joseph Martini (with their book-plates) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collec... More

Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United S...

Compiled by Baron de Steuben, inspector general of the Continental Army, and assisted by François-Louis Teissèydre. Illustrations drawn by Pierre L'Enfant. Errata note, p. [163-164]. "Explanation of the plat... More

The history of Persia - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

Pedro, not Antonio, Teixeira was the compiler of this work.--cf. Silva, Dicc. bibl. port., Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale, and Brit. mus. Catalogue. A translation, with additions, of Pedro Teixeira's Relaciones... More

[Speculum humanae salvationis. French. [from old catalog]]Le mirouer d...

Title from colophon, which continues: tra[n]slate de latin en francoys ... veu corrige [et] translate par ... frere Iulien des Augustins de Lyon ... Signatures: pi⁴ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]¹⁰. Goff S-662 Pierpont Morga... More

Quarta Asiae tabula - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Bernardus Sylvanus or Bernardo Silvani, was an Italian scholar and printer born in the 1460s. In 1511 he published a single edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first printed using two-color woodblocks.

Title page of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598

With this frontispiece, Ortelius symbolically presents his atlas as a stage upon which readers could act out imaginary voyages to distant lands using the maps and the descriptive text in the book. The architect... More

[Mapa del Golfo y costa de la Nueva España : desde el Río de Panuco ha...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coast from the vicinity of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina of the United States, location of Indian settlements, and lakes and rivers in the region to the Pánuco River ... More

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

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

Insvlæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adjacentibus

Sheet removed from German ed. of W.J. Blaeu's atlas: Atlas novus, Amsterdam, 1634. Map redesigned from a portion of Blaeu's larger map of North America printed ca. 1630. Has vertical fold line at center of shee... More

Cenomanorum galliae regionis typus : vulgo Le Mans

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

L'Isle de France et lieux circövoysins - Vintage map, Norman B. Leven...

Peru, Peru (Willem Janszoon Blaeu 1571-1638)

Perv Courtesy of Boston Public Library

[Map of California shown as an island].

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

La Floride / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coastline from Secotan in Virginia to Planuco in Mexico; the interior is shown to 40 degrees of latitude north and includes lakes and rivers in the region. Prime meridian: [F... More

A new and accurat map of the world : drawne according to ye truest des...

New and accvrat map of the world Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Novissima et accuratissima Insulae Jamaicae - Vintage map, Norman B. L...

Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, 17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Nowel Amsterdam en Lameriqve : 1672 /

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

Totius Africæ accuratissima tabula /

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

Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis avstralis. qve est : Brasil...

Title appears on upper sheet of the map; no indication of title or imprint on lower sheet. The map was engraved for the second edition of the fourth part of Hulsius' collection of voyages, which consists of 26 ... More

Carte de la Barbarie le la Nigritie et de la Guinée

Carte de la Barbarie de la Nigritie et de la Guinée Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A new map of Italy distinguishing all the sovereignties in it, whether...

This map could easily have been titled "A Disaster-lovers Guide to Italy," filled as it is with pictures and vivid descriptions of infestations, eruptions, and earthquakes. Mt. Aetna is described as a mountain ... More

Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France et des decouvertes qui y ont ...

Scale ca. 1:9,000,000. Hand colored. Has watermarks. Relief shown pictorially. Imprint date from R. V. Tooley's French mapping of the Americas, item 38. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site a... More

A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets...

Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 82A. LC copy imperfect: Darkened, use-worn, losses along edges, mounte... More

Africa : corrected from the observations of the Royal Society at Londo...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, rivers, forests and principal settlements, with tents symbolising areas inhabited by nomads, and notes. London meridian. "Drawn & Engrav'd by I. Senex." Available als... More

A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish set...

Insula Iamaica : in suas parochias divisa et secundum exemplar primiti...

Insula Jamaica Courtesy of Boston Public Library

An Accurate map of North America from the latest discoveries.

Scale ca. 1:50,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Degrees west from London." Also shows colonies, a few cities and towns, and Indian tribal territory. LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Ind... More

An accurate map of the West Indies. Exhibiting not only all the island...

Scale ca. 1:14,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Also shows southern United States, Central America, and northern South America. "Where may be had just publish'd for the use of the curious as well as students,... More

Royaume d'Irlande : divisé en ses quatre provinces et subdivisé en c...

A new & accurate map of the island of Cuba. A new & accurate map of th...

Scale ca. 1:2,700,000. Islands outlined in color; hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 65." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1... More

Plano del puerto del Guárico, cuyo conocimto. y entrada es del modo si...

Scale ca. 1:35,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Oriented with north to the bottom. Depths shown by soundings. Mounted on cloth backing LC Luso-Hispanic World, 464 ... More

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