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| Date: | 1746 |
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| Description: | Map of North America from the southern portion of James Bay to Florida. It shows the colonies, cities, Native American land, and topological and geographic... |
| Date: | 1786 |
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| Description: | One half of a four sheet nautical chart, showing the coastlines of the north-west hemisphere. The interior lands are left bare, even of basic features such... |
| Date: | 1775 |
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| Description: | This map shows the northern Pacific Ocean along with north eastern Asia and western North America. The interior of Asia contains detailed engravings of pla... |
| Date: | 1780 |
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| Description: | This map shows the townships, parishes, cities, towns, plantations, lakes, rivers, swamps, and roads near the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. Emphasis... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | A map of California showing railroad lines and reservations. |
| Date: | 1769 |
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| Description: | Double hemispherical map showing the continents, islands, countries, and a few major cities of the world. The routes of a few explorers are depicted and la... |
| Date: | 1556 |
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| Description: | One of the earliest obtainable maps to accurately (for its time) depict the Americas, this map shows more decorative than descriptive features. A few river... |
| Date: | 1566 |
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| Description: | Map showing the place names, rivers, and mountains of Europe, north-western Africa, the northern half of South America, and North America. Rhumb lines cros... |
| Date: | 1627 |
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| Description: | Map of North and South America showing settlements, rivers, lakes, mountains, islands and regions of the western hemisphere. It includes an inset map of Gr... |
| Date: | 1630 |
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| Description: | One of the few maps by Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu depicting the Americas, this map shows regions, settlements, islands, mountains, forests, rivers, an... |
| Date: | 1675 |
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| Description: | This atlas shows the western hemisphere, with a small portion of Spain and Africa. Several place names are labeled, such as the Plymouth colony, settlement... |
| Date: | 1690 |
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| Description: | A mysterious mixture of mythology, ancient geography, and late 17th century knowledge of the American coastline. This map shows North and South America, bu... |
| Date: | 1676 |
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| Description: | Detailed map of North and South America. Cities, towns, forests, and mountains are shown pictorially. Duval labels regions, islands, cities, lakes, and Nat... |
| Date: | 1679 |
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| Description: | Decorative and detailed map of the eastern half of North America. Regions, cities, colonies, Native America land, rivers, lakes and some nautical features ... |
| Date: | 1700 |
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| Description: | Map of the western hemisphere showing settelments, coastal features, islands, rivers, lakes, and pictoral representations of forests and mountains. The Gre... |
| Date: | 1724 |
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| Description: | Map showing the mountains, rivers, lakes, settlements, islands, and regions of North and South America. Characteristic of de L'Isle, this map is highly det... |
| Date: | 1746 |
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| Description: | Detailed map of the western hemisphere and part of Africa and Europe. Islands, cities, settlements, rivers, lakes, countries, and regions are marked. Mount... |
| Date: | 1636 |
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| Description: | Map of North America, divided into regions, and showing some rivers, lakes, settlements, cities, mountains, and Native American land. Of the Great Lakes on... |
| Date: | 1684 |
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| Description: | Map of North America showing some colonies, cities, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Ship routes spread across both oceans, including one decorated... |
| Date: | 1719 |
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| Description: | This extremely detailed and ornate map shows the cities, Native American land, mountains, lakes, rivers, and European claims of North America. An inset map... |
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