vintage maps

A new & exact map of the coast, countries and islands within ye limits...

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Plan de la ville de Bouchain situé sur les rivieres de la Sensette, e...

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

A compleat description of the province of Carolina in 3 parts : 1st, t...

Shows coastal area from North Carolina to Florida. Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Charles Town. Mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as ... More

[Four diagrams of Solar eclipses]. - Public domain map

Title devised by cataloger. Appears in: Universal Geography, Johanne Bunone, London, 1711. In upper right margin: p. 30. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamp... More

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of Africa and Africans, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A new & exact map of the coast, countries and islands within ye limits...

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

Pas kaart van de zuyd kust van Cuba en van geheel Yamaica en and're by...

This portolan-style chart was first published by the Dutch chart maker Johannes van Keulen. It appeared in various editions of the van Keulen family's "Zee-Fakkel", and "Zee-Atlas", published from the 1680s thr... More

This map of South America, according to the newest and most exact obse...

Scale ca. 1:17,500,000. Hand colored. "To the Right Honourable, Charles, Earl of Sunderland, and Baron Spencer of Wormleighton; one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State; &c." Available also through t... More

Theatrum historicum ad annum Christi quadringentesimum : in quo tum Im...

Dated from other maps in the same atlas. Inset map: "Supplentum Theatro Historico", showing eastern hemisphere. Shows the eastern Roman Empire in 400 A.D. Shows boundaries, forests, settlements. Relief shown pi... More

Vestingplattegrond van Duinkerke, 1712

Vestingplattegrond van Duinkerke, volgens akkoord bezet door de Engelsen in juni 1712. Onderaan een gezicht op Duinkerke, rechts vestingplattegronden van Sint-Winoksbergen, Fort Risbank en Fort Knokke.

America in praecipuas ipsius partes distributa ad observationes Academ...

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Spagnvola - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Spagnuola Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A new map of the country of Louisiana and of ye river Missisipi in Nor...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations, including an Illustrated cartouche and a view of Niagara Falls, and an index. LC copy mounted on cloth. Phillips, A list of maps of America, p. 367 Available al... More

Planisphere terrestre, suivant les nouvelles observations des astronom...

Relief shown pictorially. Centered on the North Pole. Includes illustrations and notes. This map appears as map 2 in Gueudeville's Le nouveau theatre du monde of 1713, as map 27 in volume 1 of Ottens' Atlas mai... More

Plan de la riuiere de Suriname, de la ville de Paramaribo, es de fort ...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index of places and inset of fort Zelandia.

La Floride, suivant les nouvelles observations de Messrs. de l'Academi...

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Plano de el Puerto de Nipe situado en la costa del N. de la ya. de la ...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermarks: IV; and, Pro Patria. Watermark dated 1713. Pen-and-ink and red watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic ... More

Carte de la Mer du Sud et des costes d'Amerique et d'Asie situées sur...

Carte de la Mer du Nord et des costes d'Amerique, d'Europe et d'Afrique, situées sur cette mer Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A chart of the sea coast of New Foundland, New Scotland, New England, ...

First published in 1689, John Thornton's chart of the north Atlantic seacoast illustrates the type of nautical charts available to navigators in the Fourth Book of the English Pilot, which was the standard reso... More

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

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

During the Renaissance, Italy was a nation of separate city-states, regions that were loyal to either the Spanish crown or the Pope in Rome. Italian culture was also transitioning from a medieval way of life, t... More

Carolina is by vertue of a warr and under of hand and se all of the Ri...

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Insubres in Segusianis : partie du dioecese, et Archevesché de Lyon :...

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A map of the West-Indies or the islands of America in the North Sea : ...

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This map of North America, according to ye newest and most exact obser...

Scale ca. 1:15,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers, Baron of Evesham in ye county of Worcester, President of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council &... More

A map of the West-Indies or the islands of America in the North Sea : ...

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Orbis Romani descriptio : seu divisio per themata sub Imperatoribus Co...

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Plan du Cap de Hoorne situé par 56. d. de latt. S. de la Grande Baye o...

Shows coasts of Cape Horn region and adjacent islands. Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: Cluster of grapes and indecipherable lettering. Pen-and-ink and red and blue inks. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso... More

This map of North America, according to ye newest and most exact obser...

Scale ca. 1:15,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers, Baron of Evesham in ye county of Worcester, President of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council &... More

The Distribution of Indian tribes in the Southeast about the year 1715...

De la grande rivière de Canada : appellée par les europeens de St. Lau...

Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Includes text, 5 insets, and 1 relief profile. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

This map of North America, according to ye newest and most exact obser...

To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers, Baron of Evesham in ye county of Worcester, President of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council &c. this map of North America, according to ye newest and most exa... More

De la grande rivière de Canada : appellée par les europeens de St. Lau...

Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Title from accompanying text. Accompanying text published by J.F. Bénard, 1715. Includes 1 relief profile and 5 insets. Available also throug... More

A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into cou...

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

A map of the West-Indies or the islands of America in the North Sea; w...

Scale ca. 1:4,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Sold by H. Moll and by I. King at ye Globe in ye Poultrey near Stocks Market." "To Wil. Paterson esq; this map of the West-Indies &c. is most humb... More

A map of the West-Indies or the islands of America in the North Sea; w...

Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Printed for Tho: Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard and Iohn Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill." "To Wil. Paterson, Esq; this map of the West Ind... More

Plan du detroit du Maire dont l'entrée du côtté du nord qui est le Cap...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermark: Cluster of grapes and indecipherable lettering. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-H... More

L'Espagne [Material cartográfico] - Public domain map

Escala expresada tambien en 25 Lieües Communes de France.

Totius Americae descriptio nova - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Col...

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Novissima tabula regionis Lvdovicianae gallice dictae La Lovgsiane iam...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrated cartouche. LC copy mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A chart of the coast of Barbaria with the western, Canaria, & Cape de ...

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

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Rhemi : partie septentrle du Dioecse et Archevesché de Rheims en Cham...

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The seat of war in ye North : or a map of the Baltick, with part of th...

Collection of old maps | A map of the Baltick Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The seat of war in ye North : or a map of the Baltick, with part of th...

Collection of old maps | A map of the Baltick Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Rhemi : Partie meridionale du dioecese, et archevesché de Rheims en C...

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi,

Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Natichitoches, éstablissemt. françois fait en 1717 par Mr. de Bienville" and routes of explorers, De Soto and others. LC copy mounted on cloth backed paper. Folded in six, split... More

L'Amerique meridionale et septentrionale

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

This is a draft of a parcell [i.e. parcel] of salt meadow together wit...

Cadastral map showing Champlin's property extending from "the sea shore" to "the salt pond" and including island in salt pond. Also indicates that property north of that of Champlin is "Noyces land." Oriented ... More

Grand theatre de la guerre en Amerique suivant les plus nouvelles obse...

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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

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi ...

2nd State. [Blueprint is 3rd State] Colonial America. See English translation in Senex's New General Atlas, 1721, dedicated to Wm. Law. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.... More

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours de Mississipi

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L'Amerique septentrionale. Dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'A...

Scale ca. 1:18,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Imprint date from R. V. Tooley's French mapping of the Americas, item 31. Cartouche engraved by N. Guérard. Available also ... More

Carte du Paraguay, du Chili, du Detroit de Magellan &c. Dressée sur le...

Scale ca. 1:9,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Imprint date from R. V. Tooley's French mapping of the Americas, item 80. Cartouche engraved by C. Simonneau. Available also... More

Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie, et de la Guinée /

Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege, Aout 1707." "The words 'premier geographe du Roi' added in the title ... [indicate] that [a map] could not have been issued before 1718 when [De l'Isle] was appointed ... More

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi]: dr...

Covers United States from Rio Grande River to Hudson River. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Item 46 in LC Kohl exhibition, Mar. to June 1993. Phillips. Maps of America. Includes notes. Inset: C... More

Carte nouvelle contenant la partie d'Amerique la plus septentrionale, ...

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Carte des Antilles françoises et des isles voisines. Dressée sur les m...

Scale ca. 1:890,000. Hand colored. Has watermarks. Relief shown pictorially. Imprint date from R. V. Tooley's French mapping of the Americas, item 54. Shows islands from Guadeloupe to Grenada, including Barbado... More

A new map of the English empire in America viz. Virginia, Maryland, Ca...

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

Nieuwe en aldereerste afteekening van 't eyland St. Thomas : met alle ...

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A new map of the Brittish Isles shewing their present genl. divisions,...

New map of the British isles showing their present genl. divisions, cities, and such other towns, or places, as answer to the towns of note in the time of the Romans Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A new & correct map of the whole world : shewing ye situation of its p...

Regions and Seasons: London-based cartographer Herman Moll produced this world map for his atlas The World Described (1709-36) to document the numerous expeditions undertaken by English explorers searching for ... More

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

Public domain scan of a 17th-18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

A new map of the Brittish Isles shewing their antient people, cities, ...

New map of the British Isles showing their ancient people, cities, and towns of note, in the time of the Romans Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A new map of Libya or old Africk shewing its general divisions, most r...

New map of Libya or old Africk showing its general divisions, most remarkable countries or people, cities, towns, rivers, mountains &c Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Le Bresil. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

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

La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos, Apostolic...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Pas-kaart vande Rivieren Commewini Suriname en Cupanama ...

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L'Amerique Meridionale divisée en ses principales parties

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Plan de / la paroisse de St Sulpice / de / Paris / ou du / Fauxbourg S...

Plans de Paris / B (Serie's title) Public domain scan of settlement or building architecture plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

To the Right Honourable, Charles Earl of Sunderland, and Baron Spencer...

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A new map of Great Britain : according to the newest and most exact ob...

Public domain scan of an old vintage map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Carte de la Terre Promise. - Public domain old map

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

L'Amerique, ou, Le nouveau continent : dresseè sur les memoires les pl...

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

Amplissimae regionis Mississipi seu provinciae Ludovicianae â R.P. Lu...

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Totius Americae septentrionalis et meridionalis novissima repræsentati...

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Watertown, residences, (and homes of several owners.), Watertown Mass.

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A map of the East-Indies and the adjacent countries, with the settleme...

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A map of Kent - Public domain vintage map

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La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos, Apostolic...

Relief shown pictorially. McLaughlin, G. Mapping of California as an island, 196 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault 2 copies; copy 2 is b&w

A new map of the north parts of America claimed by France under ye nam...

In 1720, London geographer and mapmaker, Herman Moll, published this map focusing on France's North American possessions. In a message below the title, he warned his British audience of French encroachment on n... More

The harbour of Casco Bay and islands adjacent nautical chart

For many years English settlers in coastal Maine were targets for attack by the French-backed Abenaki and other indigenous groups. Consequently, Southack made many trips to Casco Bay, including one in 1702, whe... More

The harbour of Casco Bay and islands adjacent nautical chart

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

A new map of the north parts of America claimed by France under ye nam...

In 1720, London geographer and mapmaker, Herman Moll, published this map focusing on France's North American possessions. In a message below the title, he warned his British audience of French encroachment on n... More

Huitième plan / de Paris / divisé en ses vingts / quartiers. Par N. de...

Plans de Paris / B (Serie's title)

A new map of the north parts of America claimed by France under ye nam...

In 1720, London geographer and mapmaker, Herman Moll, published this map focusing on France's North American possessions. In a message below the title, he warned his British audience of French encroachment on n... More

Huitième plan / de Paris / divisé en ses vingt / quartiers. Par N. de ...

Plans de Paris / B (Serie's title) Public domain scan of 18th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A new map of the Baltick &c : shewing all the dominions about it with ...

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

Regnorum Hispaniae et Portugalliae [Material cartográfico] : Tabula ge...

Este mapa de Homann está basado en el realizado por Guillaume de L'Isle, como se refleja en el título.

The road from London to Buckingham - Public domain map

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

Nova tabula geographica complectens borealiorem Americæ partem : in qu...

This pair of late-17th-century Dutch maps depicts the French and British colonies in northeastern North America extending from the Carolinas to Newfoundland. The map's central focus includes New England along w... More

Naaukeurige platte grond van den staat loop van Rio de Berbice met der...

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The roads from Chelmsford to St. Edmunds Bury

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

Relief shown pictorially. Gift of the estate of Jessica Lee. In lower right margin: Vol. II. Page 39. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes. Acquisitions cont... More

Tabula geographica qua pars Rusiae Magnae : Pontus Euxinus seu Mare Ni...

Relief shown pictorially. Watermark. Minimal level cataloging record. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Kaart van Frans-Vlaanderen, Flanders

Kaart van Frans-Vlaanderen. In een balk boven de kaart, in het midden, de titel. Links hiervan een legenda. Rechts van de titel twee schaalstokken: 1 1/2 Gemeene Duytsche Mijlen van 15 in een Graad / 2 Fransche... More

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis fl...

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