vintage maps, geography

Typus generalis Ukrainæ : sive Palatinatuum Podoliæ, Kioviensis et Bra...

Covers palatinates that are now part of central and southern Ukraine (at the time a part of the Russian Empire previously acquired by military conquest from the Ottoman Empire). Relief shown pictorially. In Lat... More

Le globe terrestre représenté en deux plans-hémisphères : dressé sur l...

Scale ca. 1:35,000,000 at the equator. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text, notes, and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

Perigrinatie ofte veertich-iarige reyse der kindern Israëls, uyt Egyp...

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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

A map of Louisiana and of the river Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi] : th...

Relief shown pictorially. From: A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world, 1721. Phillips. Maps of America. Includes no... More

A map of the world : corrected from the observations communicated to t...

By the end of the 17th century, the Dutch were losing their dominance in the European map trade and were being replaced by French, British, and German publishing firms. Displayed here is an example of an early ... More

Terre de Chanaan ou Terre Promise a Abraham, et a sa Posterite de G. S...

Relief shown pictorially. Insets: Carte des voiages d'Abraham -- Disposition du Camp des Israelites autour de l'Arche d'Alliance. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Carte de l'ocean occidental et partie de l'Amerique septentrionale : d...

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Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France : et des découvertes qui y on...

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Map no. I - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

The Bill in the Chancery of New Jersey was filed by the Proprietors of East New Jersey to defend their position in a land dispute with settlers around Elizabeth. This is the first of the volume's three maps, wh... More

A map of the moon showing phases The geography of the great solar ecli...

Shows the path of the eclipse. Relief shown pictorially. Includes 24 diagrams showing the eclipse as seen from different cities. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC cop... More

L'Empire de la Chine pour servir a L'histoire générale des voyages

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Appears in L'histoire générale des voyages. Le Haye : P. de Hondt, 1747-80. In lower right corner: Tome 7 in 8⁰, page 1. In lower left corner: Tome VI in 4⁰, n⁰ ... 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

Survey of land for Richard Stephenson in Frederick County; attested by...

Maps of individual colonies were compiled using the most accurate and recent information. They consulted published maps in combination with data from surveys of local geographical features, such as roads, river... More

Survey of land for Richard Stephenson in Frederick County; attested by...

Maps of individual colonies were compiled using the most accurate and recent information. They consulted published maps in combination with data from surveys of local geographical features, such as roads, river... More

L'Afrique : dressée sur les relations e nouvelles decouvertes de diff...

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Carte du Golphe du Méxique et des isles de l'Amérique. Pour servir à l...

Scale ca. 1:7,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Tome XII, in 4⁰, no. 1." "Tome 10, in 8⁰, page 1." Shows southern United States, eastern Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and West Indies. Appea... More

North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville, improved with the back...

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Carte de l'Acadie, Isle Royale, et Païs Voisins : pour servir à l'Hi...

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Carte du cours du fleuve de St. Laurent depuis son embouchure jusqu'au...

Scale ca. 1:2,850,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Tom XIV, in 4⁰, no. 15. Tome 14, in 8⁰, page 254, no. 1." Appears in Jean Francois de La Harpe's Abrégé de l'histoire generale des voyages. 1780. LC Maps of Nor... More

Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle Yorck, et Pensilvanie.

Covers the area from Penobscot Bay to Chesapeake Bay and west to Lake Erie. Relief shown pictorially. Shows Indian tribal territory. Prime meridian: Paris. "Tom. XIV. in 4⁰, no. 9. Tome 14. in 8⁰, page 97"-- In... More

Carte de la Louisiane et pays voisins, pour servir a l'Histoire généra...

Scale ca. 1:10,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Tom XIV. No. 12." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 74 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault. AACR2

Carte de la baye de Hudson, pour servir à l'Histoire générale des voya...

Scale ca. 1:9,400,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Tom XIV. In 4⁰. No. 14. Tome 14. In 8⁰. Page 191." Appears in Jean Francois de La Harpe's Agrégé de l'historie generale des voyages. 1780. LC Maps of North Amer... More

Amérique septentrionale : dressée sur les relations les plus modernes ...

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Amérique septentrionale, dressée sur les relations les plus modernes d...

Scale ca. 1:16,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 8 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651

Amérique septentrionale : dressée sur les relations les plus modernes ...

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Carte de l'isle de Saint Domingue, pour servir à l'Histoire générale d...

Scale ca. 1:2,700,000. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1851 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "Longitude occidentale du méridien de Paris.... More

Johann Baptist Homann - Nova Anglia. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:2,150,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Differs from other copy in engraving technique in cartouche. Man has 2 buttons on cuff, cloth in Indian's robe is unpat... More

A map of the Land of Canaan or Holy Land, as divided among the twelve ...

Shows territories of the twelve tribes. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian appears to be Ferro. Includes inset of: "A map of the fourty years sojourning of the children of Israel through the wilderness to... More

A general map of the middle British colonies in America viz. Virginia,...

Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Cover titles: An analysis of a map of the middle British colonies in America. Middle British colonies in America. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London and Philadelphia. Relief shown picto... More

North America : from the French of Mr. d'Anville, improved with the ba...

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Carte des voyages du Cape. Carver, dans la partie intérieure de l'Amér...

Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 783 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1; 600/2; 651/3

Nouae Africae delineatio - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

This mid-18th-century map of Africa includes fictitious place names that are often found in African maps of this era, such as the mysterious and mostly unexplored interior regions here called Monomotapa and Mon... More

China Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in: Salmon's A new geographical and historical grammar : wherein the geographical part is truly modern and the present state of the several kingdoms of the world is so interspe... More

Western Hemisphere. From the book: A journal of a voyage to the South ...

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Eastern Hemisphere. From the book: A journal of a voyage to the South ...

North America, and the West Indies; a new map, wherein the British Emp...

Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Includes historical notes, "Extract of the treaties of peace, proclamations &c. relative to America & the West Indies," "A particular map of Baffin... More

A chart of the world upon Mercator's projection : describing the track...

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Christmas Island latitude 1* 58'N. longitude 202* 28' E. discovered in...

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Extrait de la carte hollandise representant la colonie de Surinam : su...

Cadastral map of eastern coast of Suriname. Relief shown by shading. Printed label with tab mounted on verso: Ch. Picquet, géographe ordinaire du roi et S.A.S. Monseigr. le Duc d'Orléans. A Paris Quai de Conti ... More

A new and accurate map of the Province of Pennsylvania, in North Ameri...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows towns, roads, forts, rivers, streams, and waterfalls as far west as "Chambers Town." Includes adjacent part of New Jersey. From The London magazine: or, Gentleman's monthly intel... More

Carte du golphe de St. Laurent et pays voisins, pour servir á l'Histoi...

Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Tom. XIII, in 4⁰, no. 2. Tome 14, in 8⁰, page 263." Appears in Jean Francois de La Harp's Abŕégé de l'historie generale des voyages. 1780. LC Maps of North Amer... More

A chart of the discoveries made by the late Capt. Cook, & other Europe...

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Carte de l'isle de la Grenade, pour servir à l'Histoire générale des v...

Scale ca. 1:225,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Longitude occidentale du méridien de Paris." "Tome 15, in 8⁰, page 446." "Tom. XV, in 4⁰, no. 14." Appears in Jean François de La Harpe's Abrégé de l'histoire gén... More

Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : lai...

Shows various expedition routes. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and col. ill. Ancillary maps: Solar system -- Northern hemisphere -- Southern hemisphere -- Astronomical latitude and longitude analemma ... More

Carte de l'isle de la Guadeloupe, pour servir à l'Histoire générale de...

Scale ca. 1:500,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Tome 15, in 8⁰, page 436." "Tom. XV, in 4⁰, no. 13." Appears in Jean Francois de La Harpe's Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages ... Atlas. 1780. LC Maps of ... More

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville - La Palestine, les tribus, et Jer...

Relief shown pictorially. From: Atlas universel / P. Santini. Venise : Chez Remondini, 1783?. Title cartouche shows the Ten Commandments. Laor, E. Maps of the Holy Land, 37 Available also through the Library of... More

North America from the Mississippi River to the Pacific, between the 3...

Pen-and-ink. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. See also: Geographical review, vol. 1, p. 330, May 1916. LC Annual report, 1925, p. 86. See also: Wheat. Mapping the trans... More

General Description or Africa relative to it's Geographical Subdivisió...

Comprende la parte noroccidental del continente

A Mercators chart - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

With a floral design embellishing its title cartouche and the use of stylized lettering and boundary symbols, this manuscript map of the world, most likely represents a geography project by a late-18th-century ... More

Le globe terrestre représenté en deux plans-hémisphères : dressé sur l...

Scale ca. 1:35,000,000 at the equator. Hand colored. LC copy mounted on cloth backing for folding. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text, notes, and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web sit... More

A new chart of the Atlantic or Western Ocean nautical chart

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A map shewing the progress of, discovery & improvement, in the geograp...

Relief shown pictorially. "The double line of dots shews Mr. Park's route in the West; Mr. Bruce's in the East." "Published according to Act of Parliament by james Rennell, May 25th, 1798." "J. Walker, sculp." ... More

China divided into provinces drawn from the best authorities

Relief shown pictorially. At lower right: Engraved by J.C. Russell. "Engraved for Guthrie's New system of geography." Appears in: New system of modern geography, or, A geographical, historical, and commercial g... More

A topographical map describing the principality of the islands of Malt...

Topographic map showing field/fence/wall lines in rural areas. Relief shown by hachures and rock drawings (coastlines). Oriented with north toward the upper left. Handwritten Millard Fillmore signature is not p... More

map from "The Geographical System of Herodotus examined and explained ...

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Palaeogeographische Erdkarte [Material cartográfico]

Dibujados meridianos y paralelos formando una cuadrícula

map from "The Geographical System of Herodotus examined and explained ...

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map from "The Geographical System of Herodotus examined and explained ...

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Geographical history of the rail road regiment, 89th regiment of Illin...

Scale 1:633,600. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 77.6 Map of parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia showing the operations of the 89th regiment of Illinois volunteers. The regiment was first attached t... More

map from "The Geographical System of Herodotus examined and explained ...

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Scythias from "The Geographical System of Herodotus examined and expla...

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A map of those countries in which the apostles travelled : in propagat...

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map from "The Geographical System of Herodotus examined and explained ...

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map from "The Geographical System of Herodotus examined and explained ...

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map from "The Geographical System of Herodotus examined and explained ...

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map from "Reisen im Innern von Afrika ... in den Jahren 1795 bis 1797 ...

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Map from "The Geographical System of Herodotus examined and explained ...

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Mappe - Monde : suivant la projection des Cartes Réduites oú l'on a tr...

Coordenadas : O160 -E190 /N80 -S70 . Meridiano de París. Coordenadas además del meridiano de Ferro

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

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[Frontispiece right.] - Public domain vintage map

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Virginia and Maryland - Public domain vintage map

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[Frontispiece left.] - Public domain vintage map

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Pensilvania - Public domain vintage map

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North America. - Public domain vintage map

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[Titlepage.] - Public domain vintage map

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Herman Moll - Map of Africa ... - Public domain old map

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Herman Moll - Europe. - Public domain vintage map

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Chili Magellans-land, and Terra del Fuego &c.

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The great province of Rio de la Plata.

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Scandinavia, comprehending Norway, Sueden, and part of Denmark.

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Herman Moll - Italy. - Public domain vintage map

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A system of geography, or, A new & accurate description of the earth i...

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Herman Moll - America. - Public domain vintage map

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Herman Moll - Britain. - Public domain vintage map

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Herman Moll - [Map of the world.] - Public domain map

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Herman Moll - Germany. - Public domain vintage map

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Herman Moll - France. - Public domain vintage map

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The isle of California, New Mexico, Louisiane, the river Misisipi, and...

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A system of geography with new maps. (Frontispiece)

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Herman Moll - Spain and Portugal. - Public domain map

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Herman Moll - The Spanish Netherlands.

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Herman Moll - Scotland. - Public domain vintage map

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The English empire in America, Newfound-land, Canada, Hudsons Bay, &c....

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Brasil, divided into its captainships.

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Holland and the other provinces of the United Netherlands.

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Terra Firma and the Caribbe Islands &c.

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Mexico, or, New Spain : divided into the audiance of Guadalayara, Mexi...

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Herman Moll - Title page. - Public domain vintage map

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Herman Moll - Geography epitomiz'd. - Public domain map

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