north america

Map of the East coast of North America

Pen and ink with watercolour over black lead, heightened with silver (altered) and gold, 480 x 235 mm, inscribed 'La Virginea Pars' and with names of villages, lakes, coastal features and scale 1906,0509.1.3

L'Amérique centr[ale] / Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows North America south of Canada including the Caribbean. Traced from a ms. world map created for Henri II in 1542 as reproduced in Jomard's Les monuments de la geographie (plate XIX.1), 1842-1862 (Phillips ... More

Novae insvlae XXVI nova tabvla. - Public domain old map

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Tierra nveva Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows the Atlantic coast from Labrador to north Florida. Publication information from atlas. Text titled "Della terra nova del Bacalaos" on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ra... More

Die Neüwen Inseln so hinder Hispanica gegen Orient bey dem Landt Indie...

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Tierra nueua - Public domain vintage map

Ruscelli's map of northeastern North America appeared in his 1561 edition of Claudius Ptolemy's "Geographia". The map was based on a smaller 1548 map by Giacomo Gastaldi, who took much of his information from t... More

La Nuoua Francia - Public domain vintage map

This map, among the earliest separate maps of northeastern North America, was primarily based on the voyages that were taken by Giovanni da Verrazano for the French in 1524. His discoveries confirmed the contin... More

Americae siue noui orbis, noua descriptio, Abraham Ortelius

In 1587, Ortelius revised the map of the Americas that appeared in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The changes found on this second edition are more extensive than generally thought, and are evidence of the care t... More

Ethnographical map of the Indian tribes of North America, A.D. 1592

Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Annotated in pencil, including change of date in the title to 1650. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions ... More

America sive novvs orbis respectv Evropaeorvm inferior globi terrestri...

America sive novus orbis respectu Europaeorum inferior globi terrestris pars Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Norumbega et Virginia - Public domain vintage map

Wytfliet's publication was essentially the first atlas devoted solely to the Americas. It consisted of a world map, 18 regional maps, and a text on the discovery, natural history, and geography of the New World... More

Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique Angloise, contenant la Virginie, Mary-Lan...

Relief shown pictorially. Title in upper right corner: Partie orientale de l'Amérique angloise. Hand colored. Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In... More

America. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Described in: The mapping of North America / Philip D. Burden. 1996. p. 165. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

A south-east view of the City of Boston in North America

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A New Method of Maracrony Making as Practised at Boston in North Ameri...

Carington Bowles I (British, 1724–1793) Public domain scan of French 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A New Method of Maracrony Making as Practised at Boston in North Ameri...

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Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae,...

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

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...

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Carte geographique de la Nouvelle Franse - Vintage map, Norman B. Leve...

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Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

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New England. Historic map, Library of Congress

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The north part of America : conteyning Newfoundland, new England, Virg...

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Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionale.

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Americae sive Indiae occidentalis tabula generalis.

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Carte de la Nouuelle France, augmentée depuis la derniere, seruant a ...

France's territorial claims in North America, which initially focused on the St. Lawrence River Valley and the Great Lakes, can be traced to Samuel de Champlain's explorations and trading activities in that reg... More

America, siue, India Nova.

[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

Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. - Public domain old map

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Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. - Public domain old map

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Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. - Public domain old map

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Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium, et Virginia

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Noua Anglia, Nouum Belgium, et Virginia - Jan Jansson

Covering the eastern portion of North America's coastline from North Carolina to Nova Scotia, this influential map appeared in English, German, Latin, Dutch, and French editions of world atlases published by Ho... More

Virginia et Florida Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative cartouche. Publication information from atlas title page. Text titled "Florida" on verso. Prime meridian: Ferro. In left margin: 899. LC copy accompanied by card wi... More

Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adiacentibus

Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adjacentibus | Insvlae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adiacentibus Courtesy of Boston Public Library

America septentrionalis - Gerhard Mercator 1512-1594 - Vintage map, No...

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[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

De Eylanden en Vastelanden van Westindien /

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

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Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. - Public domain old map

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America Septentrionalis - Jan Jansson - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventh...

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Amérique septentrionale / Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Amérique septentrionale Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Prime meridian: [Paris]. From his 1658 (i.e. 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (Phillips 4260). Second state: Lake Ontario contains shading along bor... More

Amerique septentrionale - Public domain vintage map

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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

Le Nouveau Mexique et la Floride : tirées de diverses cartes, et rela...

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Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c : ce qui est le plus advance vers le...

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America - Public domain vintage geogrpaphic map

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America : with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people a...

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America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and...

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Americæ nova descriptio - Public domain vintage map

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Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adiacentibus

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Amerique Septentrionale - Public domain vintage map

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Pas-caert van Terra Nova, Nova Francia, Nieuw-Engeland en de groote ri...

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Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio - Vintage map, N...

In comparison with DeWit's large wall map, this map purports to show the newest and most accurate information about the Americas. However, the geographic information presented here is not much different from th... More

Mexicum in hac forma in lucem - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Colle...

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Paskaerte van Nova Granada en t'Eylandt California

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Amérique septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties, ou sont di...

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Has watermarks. Copy imperfect: Tears along edge Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Control no. 2001-29

Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex optimis tum geographorum tum ...

Relief shown pictorially. Also shows Iberian peninsula and west coast of Africa. Not attributable to Blaeu, but instead derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the same title, according to Burden's The ma... More

America Septentrionalis. - Public domain vintage map

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

Relief shown pictorially. At upper right: Described by Sanson, corrected and amended by William Berry. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes ill. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Lib... More

North America, divided into its principall parts where are distinguish...

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Carte de la Nouuelle France et de la Louisiane nouuellement découuert...

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North America divided into its III principall parts : 1st English part...

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Amérique septentrion.lle [i.e. septentrionale] : composée, corigée, et...

A map of ye English Empire in ye continent of America : viz Virginia, ...

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America Settentrionale colle nuoue scoperte fin al'anno 1688, diuisa n...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island. Appears in the author's Atlante veneto, 1691-1697. Includes notes and illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ... More

Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionnale : depuis le 25, jusqu'au 65⁰ deg. ...

Copied between 1909 and 1910 from the original 1688 ms. in the Archives du dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. In margin: Bibliotheque du Depot des cartes et plans de la Marina, ... More

A new map of New England, New York, New Iarsey, Pensilvania, Maryland,...

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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

America Settentrionale : colle nuove scoperte fin alle' anno 1688 divi...

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Amerique septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties : ou sont d...

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Amerique septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties : ou sont d...

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

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Amerique septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties.

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Amerique septentrionale divisée en ses principale parties.

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Amerique septentrionale divisée en ses principale parties

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Amerique septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties.

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Amerique septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties /

Based on a map published by Nicolas Sanson in 1650. Latin title in upper margin: "America septentrionalis in suas praecipuas parte divisa, ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae ducis." Relief shown pictorially. Availa... More

Avantures mal-heureuses du Sieur de la Salle / J. Van Vian en del. et ...

Print shows La Salle, priests and others on shore as supplies are unloaded from a ship. Illus. in: Nouveau voyage d'un pais plus grand que l'Europe avec les reflections des entreprises du Sieur de la Salle ...... More

[The Buffalo]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a buffalo, a pelican, and a possum, hanging from a tree, in a forest Title devised by library staff. Illus. in: A new discovery of a vast country in America / Louis Hennepin. London : Printed for M.... More

Hawk Bell - GRPO 14419 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Hawk bells were originally used as part of falconry equipment Europe before being utilized as fur trade goods when they were introduced to North America in the 16th century. This 18th century example is made of... More

Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the ...

Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Ferro. "Publish'd as the Act directs 2. Jan. 1783." Includes historic notes. Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson Bays [ca. 1:18,000,000]--A map of ... More

A Portion of New York from the Hudson River west to the Unadilla Branc...

Scale ca. 1:65,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor on parchment. Area is divided into the various tracts of land with the owners identified. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1079 Available also thr... More

L'Amerique septentrionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'...

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A new and accurate map of the British dominions in America, according ...

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in: The maps and charts of the modern part of the universal history. 1766. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789 124 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ... More

A new map of the most considerable plantations of the English in Ameri...

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A new map of North America shewing its principal divisions, chief citi...

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A general and particular plan of the island of Castle William near Bos...

A new map of the most considerable plantations of the English in Ameri...

A sketch of the several routes of the French from Quebec to the Missis...

Manuscript copy of manuscript original in the National Archives in London. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A general map of the middle British colonies in America: Viz. Virginia...

Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "West longitude from London" and "from Philadelphia." Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 712 Available also through the Library of Congress... More

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

Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Imperfect: Creased, soiled, small tears along edges of sheet. Acquisitions control no. 99-83

[Amerique septentrionale] - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collectio...

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To the Hone. Jno. Hancock, Esqre. president of ye Continental Congress...

Scale ca. 1:320,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Indexed for points of interest. Insets with indexes: Plan of Boston and its environs, 1775.--A view of the lines thrown up on Boston Neck; by the min... More

A map of the whole continent of America, divided into North and South ...

Scale ca. 1:11,250,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes text, chart of possessions, and inset "The supplements to North America containing the countries adjoining Baffins... More

The State of Pennsylvania from the latest surveys.

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The isle of California : New Mexico : Louisiane : The river Misisipi, ...

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Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, la Floride, la Virginie, Pensilvanie, C...

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