Free to Use and Reuse: Discovery and Exploration
Zoom in on maps that shaped our view of the world throughout history including the first document to name America from 1507 and a 1650 map showing California as an island.
The Library has thousands of maps available online and many more can be viewed in person when you visit the Geography & Map Reading Room.
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Universalis cosmographia...First known map to name America -
Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi ... -
Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae : nec non partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendata -
A new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey. -
La Floride -
A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye hills... -
A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America -
Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio -
Manatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier. -
Map of California shown as an island -
Map of the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico -
A correct map of the world drawn from the best discoveries -
An accurate chart of the world with the new discoveries... -
Mappa totius mundi... -
Mappe monde nouvelle -
The world from the discoveries & observations made in the latest voyages & travels -
Map of the world with the most recent discoveries. -
Missionary map of the world showing prevailing religions... -
Nova delineatio totius orbis terrarum -
A new and correct map of the world projected upon the plane of the horizon... -
Chart of the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and the coasts of western Europe and northwest Africa -
Chart of the Mediterranean, the coast of Portugal, and the northwest coast of Africa -
Map of the Far East and adjacent Pacific -
Lewis and Clark map, with annotations in brown ink by Meriwether Lewis, tracing showing the Mississippi...