Search Maps

  •
    Map
    Atlas of Joan Martines.
    Atlas de Joan Martines     This manuscript atlas by Joan Martines, cosmographer to King Philip II of Spain, dated 1587, represents the combination of two cartographic schools that existed at the time of its creation. The older one was the traditional school of Majorca, which specialized in decorative portolan maps that by this time were obsolete with regard to the geographic information they conveyed. The newer one was the...
    • Contributor: Martines, Joan
    • Date: 1587-01-01
    • Resource: - 19 pages

  • Map
    [A portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent continents]. Also shows the southeast Pacific Ocean, the southwest Indian Ocean, as well as the continents of South America, Africa, Europe, and portions of North America and Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 16 LC Luso-Hispanic World, 10 Pen-and-ink and watercolor, matted and mounted between panels of transparent Lucite plexiglass; the panels are riveted on a rigid frame...
    • Contributor: Roiz, Pascoal
    • Date: 1633-01-01
  • Map
    Carta que comprehende la Neuva York, Nueva Ynglaterra, la Acadia ò Neuva Escocia la Ysla Real, la de Sn. Juan, con parte de la de Terra Noba: ... Scale ca. 1:1,700,000. Manuscript, ink and watercolor. Depths shown by soundings. Shoals outlined in yellow. "42." "Sujeta alas longitudes delos neuvos quarterones que por disposicion del Exmo. Sor. Dn. Josef Solano Comandante Genl. dela Esqda. y fuerzas maritimas dela Havana ... " Includes text and 3 shore line profiles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Date: 1781-01-01
  • Map
    Merkatorskai︠a︡ karta Proliva Kuprei︠a︡nova : nakhodi︠a︡shchagosi︠a︡ mezhdu ostrovami Kadʹi︠a︡kom i Afognakom Depths shown by soundings. Ms. in black and red inks with blue wash on tracing linen. Traced names in Russian. Names added in red ink in English. Handwritten in ink at bottom: March 1891. Received this from Lieut. Comd. H.E. Nichols. It is a tracing of a map loaned to a Captain trading [at?] Kodiak, on which his remarks & names have been put...
    • Contributor: Russia. GidrograficheskÄ«Ä­ Departament - Davidson, George - Tebenʹkov, Mikhail Dmitrievich - Murashev - Nichols, H. E. (Henry Ezra)
  • Map
    Map of the Atlantic Ocean, 1601. This portolan map of the Atlantic Ocean, made by Guillaume Levasseur in 1601, reflects the high level of accuracy achieved by French mapmakers of the Norman school of hydrographers, who by this time had been charting the Atlantic for well over a century. The map is also a rich store of historic place-names. For Canada, it provides 28 place-names extracted from the writings of...
    • Contributor: Levasseur, Guillaume, 1643
    • Date: 1601-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

  • Map
    Map of the North Atlantic Ocean, 1674. From the 1500s to the 1700s, explorers, geographers, and the royal government of France continued the search for a passage that would allow easy communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and better access to the treasures of the East Indies. Spurred by Indian reports, the idea of a special sea north of California emerged in the mid-17th century. Geographers quickly seized upon this...
    • Contributor: Rotis, Denis De, 17th Century
    • Date: 1674-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Heezen-Tharp collection : Antarctica This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 716 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Antarctic Ocean floor. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must be requested advance of visiting the Geography and...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
  • Map
    A map with part of the Florida coast from Cape Blaise to Apalachie : with the boundaries bewixh East & West Floridas : 160 yards across the river calld Apalachicola.
    Florida coast from Cape Blaise to Apalachie     Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink on vellum cloth. A manuscript copy of a manuscript original. Autographed by "DeBrahm." "Copied from a manuscript map belongng to Col. P. Force for the use of the U.S. Coast Survey." The original manuscript from which this tracing was made is in vault collection, G&M by [Robert Slowley]. It is no. 51 in the Peter Force Map collection. See...
    • Contributor: Slowley, Robert - De Brahm, John Gerar William
    • Date: 1769-01-01
  • Map
    [Chart of the coast of Tobago] Scale ca. 1:75,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermark. Soundings in fathoms. Includes navigational notes and insets of Man of Warr Bay and Barbados Bay. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 2109 LC Luso-Hispanic World, 807 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650/1; 650/2
    • Contributor: Gill, Richard
    • Date: 1767-01-01
  • Map
    [Charts of the coast of Florida] Scales vary. Title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America. 1901. p. 280. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Imperfect: Deteriorated in margins. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Individual maps annotated to show dates of receipt. Some maps annotated on verso with variant titles and separate numbering scheme. Includes coastal profiles and text. Accompanied by manuscript catalog of exhibition entries....
    • Contributor: De Brahm, John Gerar William
    • Date: 1765-01-01

    Resource: View All Images

  • Map
    A plan of the harbour of Cape Lookout surveyed and sounded by His Majesty's sloop Viper, Scale ca. 1:14,200. Title on verso: Cape Lookout Harbour, No. Carolina, 159. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Watermark: Large fleur-de-lis in a shield surmounted by a crown over a cross and the letters LVC. Depths shown by soundings. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes "References." On verso: 38. ACCR2: 260, 300, 650/2
    • Contributor: Lobb, J.
    • Date: 1764-01-01
  • Map
    Plano de la aguada de St. Francisco en la ysla de St. Iuan de Puerto Rico. Las dos linias de carmin el punto donde se juntaren es el desecheo a distancia de ... Scale ca. 1:50,000. Title on verso: St. Francisco in Porto Rico, 120. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, on tracing paper. Oriented with north to the left. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows the coast from "C[ab]o de Guanagibo" to "Pta. de la Aguada." LC Luso-Hispanic World, 754 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650/1; 650/2; 650/3
    • Contributor: Celi, Francisco Mathias
    • Date: 1740-01-01
  • Map
    Plano de Philadelphia Scale ca. 1:220,000. Manuscript, pen and ink. Copied from Joshua Fishers' "To the merchants & insurers of the city of Philadelphia, this chart of Delaware Bay and river." Depths shown in fathoms. Oriented with north to the right. Shows shipping channels. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1353 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
    • Contributor: Fisher, Joshua
    • Date: 1756
  • Map
    A description of the sea coasts ... in the East Indies
    Hack's descript of ye East Indies | Also known as: Buccaneer atlas     Covers the coasts of eastern Africa, India, and the East Indies. Relief shown pictorially. Each drawing bears a brief description with soundings, distances and facts regarding anchorages and navigation of rivers which might be of value in pirating activities. This atlas is known as the "Buccaneer atlas" because it results from the experience of Hacke in association with Captain Bartholomew Sharpe, the notorious Buccaneer...
    • Contributor: Hacke, William
    • Date: 1690

    Resource: View All Images

  • Map
    Plano de la agvada nveva de Pverto Rico es copia del ... sesaco el anno 1740. Scale ca. 1:75,000. Title on verso: Aguada Nueva in Puerto Rico, 125. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, on tracing paper. Oriented with north to the bottom. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows coast from Punta Guaniquilla to Punta Jiguero. Indexed. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 755 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 650/1; 650/2; 650/3
    • Contributor: Celi, Francisco Mathias
    • Date: 1740-01-01
  • Map
    Asiento present hordenat a payon les responsions dels pezos e mezures : delahun boch al altre de tots los presents bochs nnomenats los quals son cap e regiment de la mercadoria hordenat ... Diagrammatic map of weights and measures in use in 27 Mediterranean and European seaports. Oriented with north to the right. Each port city is represented by a vignette of a prominent local tower and the vignettes are connected by rhumb lines. Manuscript: pen-and-ink (light brown) and watercolors. Includes notes and an aerial view of the walled city of Siena in the upper margin (neck...
    • Contributor: Domenech, Arnald - Roselli, Piero
    • Date: 1563-01-01
  • Map
    Draught of St. Johns River in the Bay of Funday. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink with ink wash on eight irregularly shaped sheets of paper, following the course of the river. Some spots of red pigment, apparently accidental. Mounted on cloth backed paper sectioned into two for folding. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Date: 1780-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the City and Bay of Cartagena de las Indias.
    Plano de la Cyudad y Bahya de Cartagena de las Yndias Situado a los 300 Gs. 41 Ms de Longytud Prymer Merydo. el Pyco de Teneryfe y 10 Grs 27 Ms. de Latytud Boreal en el Nuevo Reyno de Granada. Levantado por D. Juan de Herrera, Ratyfycado y Delyneado por D. Antonyo de Ulloa     This hand-colored pen-and-ink manuscript map was drawn by Antonio de Ulloa (1716--95) in 1735, based on an earlier map by Juan de Herrera dating from around 1721. It shows in great detail the bay of Cartagena de Indias and the adjacent coastal area of the present-day city of Cartagena, Colombia. The territory was then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada in the Spanish...
    • Contributor: Herrera Y Sotomayor, Juan De, Flourished - Ulloa, Antonio De
    • Date: 1735-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Cartas esfericas y planos de los Puertos situados sobre las Costas Septentrionales de las Californias è Yslas adyacentes, descubiertos por los Españoles Covers Pacific Coast extending from Mexico to Alaska. Relief shown by contours and hachures. Title and date in pencil on verso of all sheets. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil and mounted on cloth. Original format described in the Luso-Hispanic World in Maps as an atlas with index entitled,"Yndice de las Cartas, y Planos contenidos en este Libro" now missing. Sheet 14 entitled, "Plano del archipielago...
    • Date: 1799-01-01

    Resource: View All Images

  • Map
    A Sketch of the harbour of St. Iago de Cuba. Scale ca. 1:15,500. Title on verso: Plan & chart, St. Jago de Cuba, 81. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on tracing paper. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1844 LC Luso-Hispanic World, 371 Includes "Reference" and "Some remarks in sailing into this harbour." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2:...
    • Date: 1765-01-01
  • Map
    A Sketch of the harbour of Port Francoise on the Island of Hispaniola. Scale ca. 1:28,000. Title on verso: 82, Port Francoise in Hispaniola. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on tracing paper. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 467 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1876 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes "Reference" and sailing instructions. Vault AACR2: 650/1;...
    • Date: 1760-01-01
  • Map
    Plan of the Brazilian Coast from Sohipe to São João Island.
    Plano da Costa do Brasil desde o Sohipe athê a ilha de S. João     This manuscript nautical map shows a stretch of the Brazilian coast from the town of Sohipe to São João Island. This coastline today is part of the state of Bahia. Bahia has Brazil's country's longest coastline and, during the early colonial period, boasted several important export centers. Features indicated on the map include water-depths, coastal rocks and shoals, and prevailing currents.
  • Map
    Heezen-Tharp collection : Arctic Ocean This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 370 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Arctic Ocean floor. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must be requested advance of visiting the Geography and...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
  • Map
    A Chart shewing [sic] part of the coast of N.W. America Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink. Covers Gulf of Alaska region. Sheets numbered 4-6. Insets: A survey of Port Chatham -- A survey of Port Chalmers -- Entrance into Cross Sound -- A survey of Port Conclusion -- A survey of Port Protection. On verso of sheet 5, annotated in black ink: Capt James M Willis 1852. Available also...
    • Contributor: Willis, James M.
    • Date: 1852-01-01
  • Map
    Map of the Island of Newfoundland, 1689. This nautical map of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence was drawn in 1689 by the Basque cartographer Pierre Detcheverry at Plaisance (present-day Placentia, Newfoundland, Canada), the French capital of Newfoundland, for Governor Antoine Parat. It contains many place-names in the Basque language and details the many anchorages along the coast between Newfoundland and Tadoussac (present-day Quebec). Along with the Portuguese, the Basques were early...
    • Contributor: Detcheverry, Pierre
    • Date: 1689-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages