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Publishers: Comstock & Cline; David Rumsey, Map of New England with adjacent portions of New York and Canada (1877), David Rumsey, 1877

From David Rumsey: This was Walling's last State Atlas and the most elaborate. The atlas was copyright and printed by Julius Bien. Full color.

Full…

Thomas Jefferys and John Green, A map of the most inhabited part of New England : containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and townships : the whole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations (1774), Boston Public Library, 1777, 1755

This large, detailed map of New England was compiled by Braddock Mead (alias John Green), and first published by Thomas Jefferys in 1755. Green was an…

Tags: American Revolution, eighteenth century, New England

Cotton Mather, An Exact Mapp of New England and New York (1702), Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, 1702 (based on 1685 map)

Recognized as the first 18th century map of New England, this map was used to illustrate Cotton Mather's famous history of the Bay Colony, "Magnalia…

Tags: eighteenth century, New England, seventeenth century

Saul Steinberg, New Yorker Map of the World, The David Rumsey Collection, 1976

Colored pictorial view of the World from 9th Avenue is a 1976 illustration by Saul Steinberg that served as the cover of the March 29, 1976, edition…

Tags: New York, twentieth century

Humphrey Gilbert, A General Map, Made Onelye for the Particuler Declaration of this Discovery, The University of Adelaide Library

, 1576

This, the only known map by Sir Humphrey Gilbert now in existence, is taken from the copy in the British Museum of his Discourse of a Discoverie of a…

Tags: Humphrey Gilbert, sixteenth century, world

Gerhard Mercator, Americae descrip., 1607

The Atlas published by Ioannes Janssonius, in 1607 (2nd prelim. leaf, is dated March 1607. Pagination irregular), with 8 + 656 p.,152 black and white…

Antonio Giovanni Magini, Nova Francia et Canada, 1607

Uncolored engraved double page map of Canada. Shows cities, towns, landmarks, rivers, forests and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes…

Tags: Canada, seventeenth century

Nicolas Sanson, Le Canada, ou Novelle France, 1657

Copper engraved double page map of Canada and the Great Lakes. Showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, villages, rivers,…

Tags: Canada, Great Lakes, New England, seventeenth century

Vincenzo Coronelli, Terrestrial Globe (Gores 21-23), Academia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, 1688

Date estimated. Images provided by the State Library of New South Wales where the original printed globe gores reside. From the catalog record of the…

Tags: Canada, globe gore, Mexico, North America, seventeenth century

Metropolitan Transportation Society, Metro North Train Line Map, 2011

Map of the train lines and routes of the Metro North transportation system in New York and Connecticut

Tags: Connecticut, New York, railroad, transportation, twenty first century

Beers, Ellis & Soule, Town of New Canaan, Fairfield Co., Conn., 1867

Atlas Of New York And Vicinity From actual Surveys by and under the direction of F.W. Beers, assisted by Geo. E. Warner & others. Published By F.W.…

Tags: Connecticut, Fairfield County, New Canaan, nineteenth century

John Seller, Hydrographer to the King, A Mapp of New England (1675), Seller. Appears in author's Atlas maritimus, or, The sea-atlas. London. 1675., 1675

From Leventhal Map Library:
A foundation in the early history of the mapping of New England, this map is the first printed version of William Reed's…

Tags: New England, seventeenth century

Giacomo Gastaldi, La Nuova Francia (1556)

From McGill:
From: Giovanni B. Ramusio's Navigazioni e viaggi. Venetia : Nella Stamperia de Giunti, 1556, pp. 424-425
An early woodcut map

Tags: Atlantic Ocean, exploration, maritime, sixteenth century

Samuel de Champlain, Samuel de Champlain, Carte geographique de la Nouvelle Franse faictte par le sieur de Champlain Saint Tongois cappitaine ordinaire pour le Roy en la Marine. Faict len 1612, [A Paris] : [Chez Iean Berjon, rue S. Iean de Beauuais, au Cheual volant, & en sa boutique au Palais, {grave}a la gallerie de prisonniers], published 1613

First detailed map of Champlain's explorations of New France: from the eastern seaboard into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, up the St. Lawrence River and…

Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Canada, Indigenous, New England, seventeenth century

Department of Fisheries & Oceans, Atlantic Bathymetry Coverage, Continental Shelf, 2013, 2013

From Partial submission of Canada to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf regarding its continental shelf in the Atlantic Ocean…

Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Canada, twenty-first century

A Map of forty miles north, thirty miles west, and twenty five miles south of Boston : including an accurate draft of the harbour and town, 1775?

Relief shown pictorially.
Includes "References to the harbour and environs of Boston," reflecting points of general interest and military events…

Tags: Boston, eighteenth century, New England, Revolutionary War

William Price
John Bonner, A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with the many additionall buildings & new streets to the year 1743, 1743

A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with the many additionall buildings & new streets to the year 1743

Tags: Boston, eighteenth century, New England

Robert Aitken, A new and correct plan of the town of Boston, and provincial camp, Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, 1755

Engrav'd for the Pennsylva. magazine v. 1, 1775, p. 29.
Relief shown pictorially.

Tags: Boston, eighteenth century, New England, Revolutionary War

Vesconte Maggiolo, Map of the World, [Atlas of Portolan Charts], 1511

Created in an unusual projection, this map is one of the earliest representations of the results of several voyages to the New World in the preceding…

Tags: Atlantic, sixteenth century, world atlas

Karonhí:io Delaronde and Jordan Engel, Turtle Island in Mohawk, The Decolonial Atlas (2015), The Decolonial Atlas, 2015

Indigenous reclaiming/naming of the territories of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy

Tags: Colonization, Indigenous, Iroquoian