Amérique septentrionale
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 along border for Lake Ontario. List of maps of America in the Library of Congress, p. 560 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Contributor:
Peyrounin, A. - Mariette, Pierre-Jean - Sanson, Nicolas
Nouvelle decouverte de plusieurs nations dans la Nouvelle France en l'année 1673 et 1674.
Joliet's map, 1674
From the Jesuit Relations, vol. 59, p. facing 86. 8 x 10 film negative available in G&M Reading Room. Part of the Missisippi River exhibit. Original version: [S.l. : s.n., 1674] Facsimile. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
Contributor:
Joliet, Louis - Burrows Brothers Company
Franquelin's map of Louisiana.
Carte de la Louisiane ou des voyages du Sr. De La Salle
"Reduced facsimile of MS. copy (made in Paris for Francis Parkman), now in the Library of Harvard University. The original, formerly in the Archives de la Marine, Paris, has been lost." From the Jesuit Relations, vol. 63, frontispiece. Facsimile. Original version: [S.l. : s.n., 1684] Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
This map of North America, according to ye newest and most exact observations
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 &c." Insets: A view of a stage & also of ye manner of fishing for, curing & drying cod at New Found Land.--St. John's harbour.--Boston harbour.--New York &c.--[Charleston region, S.C.]--Port Royal harbour.--The bay…
Contributor:
Lens, Bernard - Moll, Herman - Bowles, John - Vertue, George
A new map of North America shewing its principal divisions, chief cities, townes, rivers, mountains &c.
Relief shown pictorially. "Dedicated to His Highness William Duke of Glocester." Shows California as an island. The number "39" appears beneath the cartouche. LC copy mounted on cloth and annotated in black ink: This is map no. 39 of Edward Well's A new sett of maps. London 1722. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100;…
Contributor:
Burghers, Michael - Wells, Edward
Date:1722-01-01
Map
A new map of the most considerable plantations of the English in America
Plantations of the English in America
Relief shown pictorially on Jamaica inset only. The number "41" appears beneath the cartouche, indicating the map is from an edition of the atlas later than 1718, likely the 1722 edition. Includes decorated cartouche and list of abbreviations. "Dedicated to His Highness William Duke of Glocester." Insets: New Scotland -- I. of Jamaica -- I. of Barbados -- Bermudaz or Sommers Isles -- Carolina.…
Contributor:
Nicholls, Sutton - Wells, Edward
Date:1722-01-01
Map
Map of the country about the Mississippi.
Not drawn to scale. Title from verso. Manuscript, pen and ink. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Shows area from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Ohio River. Also mounted on sheet, in same handwriting as map, 2 sheets, one of questions, one of information relating to the map. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 775 Available also through the Library of…
A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America
Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes. LC copy sectioned in three and mounted on paper. Fold lined, with losses along central fold. Ink spilled horizontally across upper portion of map. Lightly hand colored with tan ink wash. Includes pasted printed addition showing Hearne's delineation of the Coppermine River. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America
Relief shown by hachures. Shows "Rivers added east of the Rocky Mountains, 90⁰ L. 45⁰ Lat.," from Tooley's Printed maps of America. In lower margin: London: Published Jan. 1, 1795 by A. Arrowsmith, No. 24 Rathbone Place. Includes notes. Tooley. Printed maps of America 137 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: hole in center.…
A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America
Relief shown by hachures. Shows points of interest, aids to navigation, and historical information. Appears in Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo; or, dictionary of America & West Indies, 1816. Exhibition: Mapping the North American Plains, Aug. 10-Oct 10, 1983, Exhibition: Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 24-Nov. 29, 2003. Available also through the…
[Map of North America showing Indian tribes]
Title provided by cataloger. Manuscript information about tribes over printed base map. Pencil, pen-and-ink and watercolor. The base map has the name of Oklahoma as Indian Territory and the Dakotas as "Dakota". Darkened and brittle, with creases from rollling, and losses along edges. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Bodega y Quadra 18th century coastal chart collection, 1775-1792
Bodega y Quadra eighteenth century coastal chart collection | Bodega y Cuadra 18th century coastal chart collection | Bodega y Cuadra eighteenth century coastal chart collection
This collection contains 14 manuscript maps showing the Pacific Coast of North America from Mexico to the vicinity of Sitka, Alaska. The maps represent some of the first accurate Spanish charts of the west coast. Most were produced as a result of an expedition led by Bruno de Hezeta and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, on behalf of New Spain and under…
Contributor:
Hezeta, Bruno De - Mourelle De La Rúa, Francisco Antonio - Pantoja Y Arriaga, Juan - Bodega Y Cuadra, Juan De La
Carte geographiqve de la novvelle Franse
Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Manuscript, pencil and pen-and-ink. Includes illus., index to points of interest, and text. Accompanied by manuscript text. [4] p. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
Contributor:
Thoreau, Henry David - Champlain, Samuel De
Hudson's Bay's country
Copy of a map, presented to the Congress
Also covers northern United States. Relief shown pictorially. Copy of a manuscript map from the Archives of the Hudson's Bay Company. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Contributor:
Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg) - Pond, Peter
Hudson's Bay's country after La Veranderie, about 1740.
Carte des nouvelles découvertes dans l'Ouest du Canada et des nations, qui y habitent
Relief shown pictorially. Shows lakes, rivers, fortifications, and Indian tribes in the western region of the Hudson Bay south to the northern part of Lake Superior. French. Title and accompanying text in English. Based on the original in the Dépôt de la Marine of Paris. Oriented with north toward upper right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as…
Contributor:
La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier De Varennes - Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg)
MapAmérique septentrionale 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 along border for Lake Ontario. List of maps of America in the Library of Congress, p. 560 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapNouvelle decouverte de plusieurs nations dans la Nouvelle France en l'année 1673 et 1674.
MapFranquelin's map of Louisiana.
MapAmérique septentrion.lle [i.e. septentrionale] : composée, corigée, et augmētée, sur les iournaux, mémoires, et observations les plus justes qui en ón'́etes.tes en l'année 1685 & 1686, par plusieurs particuliés Covers Canada, Hudson Bay region, and eastern United States. Shows lakes, rivers, villages, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. "A Monseigneu, Monseigneur le Marquis de Seignelay, et de Lonré, baron de Seaux, conseiller du Roy en tous conseils, secretaire d'estat & des commandemens de Sa Majesté, commandeur et grand thresorier de ses ordres. Par son très-humble très-obéissant & très obligé serviteur I-Baptiste Louis…
MapCarte de l'Amerique Septentrionnale : depuis le 25, jusqu'au 65⁰ deg. de latt. & environ 140, & 235 deg. de longitude / par Iean Baptiste Louis Franquelin, hydrographe du roy, à Québec … 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, Paris, Atlas 4040B, piece n. 3. Includes indexed inset of view "Quebec comme il se voit du cóté de l'est." Available also through the Library of Congress…
MapThis map of North America, according to ye newest and most exact observations 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 &c." Insets: A view of a stage & also of ye manner of fishing for, curing & drying cod at New Found Land.--St. John's harbour.--Boston harbour.--New York &c.--[Charleston region, S.C.]--Port Royal harbour.--The bay…
MapA new map of North America shewing its principal divisions, chief cities, townes, rivers, mountains &c. Relief shown pictorially. "Dedicated to His Highness William Duke of Glocester." Shows California as an island. The number "39" appears beneath the cartouche. LC copy mounted on cloth and annotated in black ink: This is map no. 39 of Edward Well's A new sett of maps. London 1722. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100;…
MapA new map of the most considerable plantations of the English in America
MapMap of the country about the Mississippi. Not drawn to scale. Title from verso. Manuscript, pen and ink. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Shows area from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Ohio River. Also mounted on sheet, in same handwriting as map, 2 sheets, one of questions, one of information relating to the map. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 775 Available also through the Library of…
MapA new map of North America, from the latest discoveries 1778. Scale ca. 1:15,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
Map[North America from the Mississippi River to the Pacific, between the 35th and 60th parallers of latitude]. 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 transmississippi West, no. 243. Vault
MapA map shewing the communication of the lakes and the rivers between Lake Superior and Slave Lake in North America. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: London. In upper right corner: Gent. Mag. March 1790. Pt. I, p. 197. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapA map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes. LC copy sectioned in three and mounted on paper. Fold lined, with losses along central fold. Ink spilled horizontally across upper portion of map. Lightly hand colored with tan ink wash. Includes pasted printed addition showing Hearne's delineation of the Coppermine River. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapA map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America Relief shown by hachures. Shows "Rivers added east of the Rocky Mountains, 90⁰ L. 45⁰ Lat.," from Tooley's Printed maps of America. In lower margin: London: Published Jan. 1, 1795 by A. Arrowsmith, No. 24 Rathbone Place. Includes notes. Tooley. Printed maps of America 137 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: hole in center.…
MapA map of part of the continent of North America : between the 35th and 51st degrees of north latitude, and extending from 89⁰ degrees of west longitude to the Pacific Ocean Relief shown by shading. Covers western North America, from Lake Michigan and Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean, including southern Canada and northern Mexico. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Note from map folder: Map was copied from a sketch by William Clark, not one by Meriwether Lewis as indicated in the title. Copy…
MapA map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America Relief shown by hachures. Shows points of interest, aids to navigation, and historical information. Appears in Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo; or, dictionary of America & West Indies, 1816. Exhibition: Mapping the North American Plains, Aug. 10-Oct 10, 1983, Exhibition: Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 24-Nov. 29, 2003. Available also through the…
Map[Map of North America showing Indian tribes] Title provided by cataloger. Manuscript information about tribes over printed base map. Pencil, pen-and-ink and watercolor. The base map has the name of Oklahoma as Indian Territory and the Dakotas as "Dakota". Darkened and brittle, with creases from rollling, and losses along edges. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
MapNouvelle carte des découvertes faites par les vaisseaux russiens aux côtes inconnues de l'Amérique Septentrionale avec les pais adiacents : dressées sur des memoires authentiques de ceux qui ont assisté a ces … Map of northwestern North America and the Russian Far East including the Bering Strait region showing the exploration routes of Bering, Chirikov, and other Russian explorers. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored in light and dark brown watercolors (wash) and in red ink line. Imperfect: Trimmed, vertically fold-lined at center, has rubber-stamped insigne of "Depot de cart. pl. et journ. de la Marine" in title…
MapDescripsion des costs, pts., rades, illes de la Nouuele France faict selon son vray méridien : avec la déclinaison de la ment de plussieurs endrois selon que le sieur de Castes le … "This portolan-style chart on vellum was compiled by Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), the founder of New France, and was originally intended for presentation to the King of France. One of the great cartographic treasures of America, the map offers the first thorough delineation of the New England and Canadian coasts from Cape Sable to Cape Cod, showing Port Royal; Frenchman's Bay; the St. John,…
MapCarta de los descubrimientos hechos en la costa N.O. de la America Septentrional por las embaraciones de Sn. Blas, y noticias adguiridas en este viage, dedicada al Exm̃o Sor̃ Conde de Revilla … "Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa (1717-79) was born in Seville, Spain. He served as captain general of Cuba from 1766 to 1771 and as viceroy of New Spain from 1771 to 1779. He reorganized the Spanish military units in the viceroyalty and strengthened and rebuilt fortifications along the Pacific coast and on the Gulf of Mexico, with the objective of forestalling encroachments by…
CollectionBodega y Quadra 18th century coastal chart collection, 1775-1792
MapCarte geographiqve de la novvelle Franse Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Manuscript, pencil and pen-and-ink. Includes illus., index to points of interest, and text. Accompanied by manuscript text. [4] p. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
MapHudson's Bay's country
MapA map of America between latitudes 40 and 70 north and longitudes 45 and 180 west exhibiting Mackenzie's track from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan & from thence to the north sea in … "... Published 15 Oct. 1801 ..." Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
MapHudson's Bay's country after La Veranderie, about 1740.