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John White, Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis inuenta sumtibus Dn. Walteri Raleigh, ..., 1590

A map of the coast of Virginia and present-day North Carolina (from Chesapeake Bay to Cape Lookout) with names of native American villages given in…

Tags: Sir Walter Raleigh, sixteenth century, Virginia

Baptista Boazio, The Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and Barkes wherin weare gotten the Townes of St. Iago: Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines ... Newlie come forth by Baptista B., 1589

Map showing Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage of 1585, including the Atlantic Ocean, parts of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.…

Tags: Francis Drake, New World, sixteenth century

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

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

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