Browse Items (9 total)

John Seller, A Mapp of New Jarsey, 1672

Map of New Jersey with inset view of New York City. Cartographic elements include scales, compass rose, rhumb lines, location of sea banks or shoals,…

Tags: English, New Jersey, seventeenth century

George Percy (possible), Map of Virginia c. 1610, c. 1610

A manuscript map of Virginia dating from the earliest period of English settlement in America.
The territory depicted extends from the rivers of…

Tags: Indigenous, seventeenth century, Virginia

Vincenzo Coronelli, Partie orientale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France (1689), 1689

Map of New France, including part of northeastern Canada and New England, from Labrador south to present-day South Carolina. Cartographic elements…

Tags: Atlantic, New France, seventeenth 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

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

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

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

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

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