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Hispania nova

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro.

Date: 1597

Creator: Wytfliet, Cornille

America noviter delineata

Map of North and South America showing political boundaries and place names. Includes inset of Greenland and illustrations of ships and sea monsters.

Date: 1633

Creator: Merian, Matthaeus

Audience de Mexico

Map of Mexico and surrounding areas. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro.

Date: 1657

Creator: Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667

De Cust van Westindien van La Desconoscida tot C. Escondido

Map of the coastline along the western part of the Gulf of Mexico, starting in the south (left) at a point labeled "La Desconoscida" and ending in the north (right) at "C[iudad] Escondido." Segments of the coastline are shaded in red, yellow, and green, with labels for river mouths, ports, islands, and other points along the coast.

Date: 1680

Creator: Roffeveen, Arent, -1679

Location: None

Le vieux Mexique, ou, Nouvelle Espagne avec les costes de la Floride : faisant-partic de l'Amerique septentrionale / par N. de Fer.

Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Paris : Chez l'auteur dans l'Isle du Palais sur le quay de l'Orloge a la sphere royale avec privil du roy, 1702.

Date: 1702

Creator: Fer, Nicolas de

Les costes aux environs de la Riviere de Misisipi : decouvertes par Mr. de la Salle en 1683 et reconnues par Mr. le Chevallier dÍberville en 1698 et 1699 / par N. de Fer ; Vincent de Ginville, sculpsit.

Hand colored. From: LÁtlas curieux / N. de Fer. "122." Martin, J.C. Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900, p. 49, 91.

Date: 1705

Creator: Fer, Nicolas de

L'Amerique meridionale: Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les Plus recens

Hand-drawn color map of South America in 1708. Countries are shaded in different colors and some paths are marked in color. Bodies of water and geographic features are noted, with relief shown pictorially.

Date: 1722

Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726

Carte du Mexique et de la Floride, des terres angloises et des Isles Antilles, du cours et des environs de la riviere de Mississippi / dressée sur un grand nombre de memoires principalement sur ceux de Mrs. d'Iberville et le sueur [...] ; par Guillaume del'Isle ; I. Stemmers, senior, sculp.

Hand drawn map showing North America, Mexico and a northern section of Amerique Meridionale in 1722. Place names and topographical features included.

Date: 1722

Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume

Europa, secundum legitimas projectionis stereographic︠a︡e regulas et juxta recentissimas observationes ︠a︡eque ac relationes adhibitis qvoq[ue] veterum monumentorum subsidiis

Hand-drawn, color map of Europe as of 1743 with place names, geopolitical borders and some topographical features. Boundaries and features are noted, with relief shown pictorially.

Date: 1743

Creator: Hase, Johann Matthias, 1684-1742

Karte von der Erdenge Panama und den Provinzen Veragua, Terra Firma und Darien

Color map of Panama and surrounding areas. Some towns are marked as well as bodies of water and geographic features with relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris.

Date: 1754

Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Regni Mexicani seu Novæ Hispaniæ, Ludovicianæ, N. Angliæ, Carolinæ, Virginiæ et Pensylvaniæ, necnon insvlarvm archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali

Hand drawn map of North America with geographical landmarks and place names in Latin. Map decorated with drawings of ships.

Date: 1759~/1784~

Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724

The Environs, or Countries Twenty Miles Round London

Hand-drawn map of 20 counties around London in 1761. Various buildings and features are marked on the map pictorally.

Date: 1761

Creator: Kitchin, Thomas

A New and Correct Plan of London, Westminster and Southwark, with several Additional Improvements, not in any former Survey.

Map showing plan of London (Westminster and Southwark) as of 1761. Streets and some buildings are noted. Scale 1:10,800.

Date: 1761

[Collection of Travel Maps]

Nine maps depicting the travels of the author to accompany his journals. The first map shows routes through parts of the Middle East and Asia with references to the Orenburgh Expedition. The second map shows routes in Northern Europe and parts of Russia, including towns in Prussia, Germany, and the Netherlands. The third map shows various portions of the Volga River in four separate, overlapping insets with nearby towns noted. The fourth map shows an area around the Eastern Ocean including … more

Date: 1762

Creator: Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.

Carte Reduite du Globe Terrestre

Hand-drawn map of the world, circa 1763. The place names are in French with some cities noted as well as geographic features (with relief shown pictorially).

Date: 1763~

Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772

Carte Reduite du Golphe du Mexique, et des Isles de l'Amerique.

Map of the Caribbean area in 1774, including some portions of Central America. Some towns and roads are noted as well as depths and other geographic features, with relief shown pictorially.

Date: 1774

Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772

Course of the River Mississippi, from the Balise to Fort Chartres: Taken on an Expedition to the Illinois, in the latter end of the Year 1765.

Course of the Mississippi River from the Balise to Fort Chartres based on surveys made by the French. Surrounding geographic features are noted with relief shown pictorially.

Date: June 1, 1775

Creator: Ross, Lieutenant

Mexico, or, New Spain : in which the motion of Cortes may be traced / for the Rev. Dr. Robertson's History of America by Thos. Kitchin Senr., hydrographer to His Majesty.

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Inset: Supplement of the environs of Mexico. "Vol. 2."

Date: 1777

Creator: Kitchin, Thomas & Robertson, William

Carte de la Côte N.O. de l'Amérique et de la Côte N.E. de l'Asie reconnues en 1778 et 1779

Shows the Northwest coast of North America as explored on Cook's third voyage. Included are the opposite coast of Asia, Cook's path, and his readings. Relief shown pictorially. Inset: Plan de l'Entrée de Nootka.

Date: 1780/1788

Creator: Bonne, Rigobert

A Chart of the Gulf Stream

Map of the Gulf Stream from Florida and the Bahama Islands at lower left of map, up along the coast of North America, and to Newfoundland and the Grand Banks at upper right of map, as charted by Benjamin Franklin. At left side is text describing the journey from Newfoundland west and south along the Atlantic coast. In the text, "Gulf" is spelled "Gulph" Labrador is labeled as "Land of the Eskimaux's". Inset at upper left is a map of the Atlantic Ocean, showing the Gulf Stream.

Date: 1786

Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Plan of the City of New Orleans and the Adjacent Plantations

Map of the city of New Orleans in 1798, including adjacent plantations (with property notes and the history of land ownership) and points of interest. Scale ca. 1:18,676 (ca. 280 toesas per inch).

Date: December 24, 1798

Creator: Trudeau, Carlos

[Bowles's Geographical Game of the World]

Game board for "Bowles’s Geographical Game of the World" printed with a map of the world. It was meant to be played with multiple players, spinning a teetotum (spinning dice) to move their marker around the map, and to teach players basic facts about different parts of the world.

Date: [1803..1821]

Ground Plan of Newgate.

Floor plan for part of Newgate Prison in London, England. Scale ca. 1:192.

Date: 1808

Creator: Neild, James, 1744-1814.

Spanish dominions in North America

A map of the southern United States, Central America, and part of the Gulf of Mexico. All of the marked spots on the map are Spanish dominions.

Date: 1812

Creator: Arrowsmith, Aron