Minots Ledge off Boston Harbor : showing the proposed site of a light ...
Beneath Our Feet: Mapping of the features beneath the ocean’s surface began in Europe in the late-16th century, with cartographers using simple symbols such as soundings (numbers that indicate depth in fathoms)... More
British Isles - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection nautical c...
This modern navigational chart serves as a reminder that England is an island nation off the coast of Europe and that seafaring was an important activity in its history, especially since the late 16th century. ... More
North Atlantic Ocean, West Indies - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal C...
Using the latest advances in modern technology for gathering depth soundings and generating automated cartography, this chart was prepared primarily for navigational purposes, testifying to sailors' continual q... More
![Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theater of the worlde ... [Title page]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn6/L3Bob3RvLzE2MDMvMTIvMzEvYWJyYWhhbS1vcnRlbGl1cy1oaXMtZXBpdG9tZS1vZi10aGUtdGhlYXRlci1vZi10aGUtd29ybGRlLXRpdGxlLXBhZ2UtODE1NDE5LTEwMjQuanBn/40/30/webp "Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theater of the worlde ... [Title page]")
Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theater of the worlde ... [Title p...
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Poictov., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map
Public domain image of Abraham Ortelius map, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Abraham Ortelius was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, conven... More
Guasconiæ descriptio. - Public domain vintage map
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Valentiæ Regnum. - Public domain vintage map
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Anglia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain vintage map
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Portugallia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map
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Gades., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain vintage map
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Hibernia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map
Picryl description: Public domain image of Abraham Ortelius map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Abraham Ortelius was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, conventionally recogn... More
America., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map
Picryl description: Public domain image of Abraham Ortelius map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Abraham Ortelius was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, conventionally recogn... More
Hispania., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map
Picryl description: Public domain image of Abraham Ortelius map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Abraham Ortelius was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, conventionally recogn... More
Britannia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain old map
Public domain image of Abraham Ortelius map, 17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Abraham Ortelius was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, conven... More
Scotia., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain vintage map
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![Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theater of the worlde ... [Title page verso]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn6/L3Bob3RvLzE2MDMvMTIvMzEvYWJyYWhhbS1vcnRlbGl1cy1oaXMtZXBpdG9tZS1vZi10aGUtdGhlYXRlci1vZi10aGUtd29ybGRlLXRpdGxlLXBhZ2UtdmVyc28tNjdmMzg0LTEwMjQuanBn/40/30/webp "Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theater of the worlde ... [Title page verso]")
Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theater of the worlde ... [Title p...
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A new description of the shyres Lothian and Linlitquo
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More
New England : the most remarqueable parts thus named by the high and m...
Based on John Smith's 1614 voyage along the New England coast, this is the first printed map devoted specifically to this region. It is also the first to use the name “New England” for an area that had up until... More
The north part of America : conteyning Newfoundland, new England, Virg...
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New France, New Englande, New Scotlande, and New Foundlande
Alexander, one of the leading members of the Council of New England and the first Viscount of Canada, had been given large grants of land by James I and Charles I of England. He proposed a system for the coloni... More
America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and...
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America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and...
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The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer isles: ...
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The south part of New England as it planted this yeare, 1634
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The south part of New-England, as it is planted this yeare, 1635
South part of Nevv-England Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The south part of New England, as it planted this yeare, 1639
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Map of old Reading, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1647
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![America: or An exact description of the West-Indies [Title page].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn6/L3Bob3RvLzE2NTUvMTIvMzEvYW1lcmljYS1vci1hbi1leGFjdC1kZXNjcmlwdGlvbi1vZi10aGUtd2VzdC1pbmRpZXMtdGl0bGUtcGFnZS1hNTFiZDctMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/47/webp "America: or An exact description of the West-Indies [Title page].")
America: or An exact description of the West-Indies [Title page].
Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More
A new, plaine, & exact mapp of Africa : described by N.I. Visscher and...
New, plaine and exact mapp of Africa Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new, plaine, and exact map of Asia : described by N.I. Visscher, and...
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More
A mapp of New England - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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A new, plaine, and exact map of America : described by N.I. Visscher, ...
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Asia : with the islands adioyning described, the atire of the people, ...
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A small map of the sea coast of New England together with the outlines...
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Africæ, described, the manners of their habits and buildings, newly do...
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America : with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people a...
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Europ, and the cheife cities contayned therin, described; with the hab...
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A new and accurat map of the world : drawne according to ye truest des...
New and accvrat map of the world Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Mappa æstivarum insularum alias Bermudas dictarum, ad ostia Mexicani æ...
Mapp of the Sommer Ilands once called the Bermudas lying at the mouth of the bay of Mexico in the lattitude of 32 degr. 25 mi. distant from England viz. from London towards the west south-west 3300 miles and fr... More
Greece with part of Anatolia = La Graecia con parte della Natolia
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new and most exact map of Europe described by N.I. Visscher and don ...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A chart of the Caribe islands - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Colle...
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A Chart of the north part of America, describing the sea coast of Groe...
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A chart of the West Indies from Cape Cod to the River Oronoque
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A chart of the sea coast of Brazil from Cape St. Augustine to the stra...
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A chart of the South Sea - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
Map of the Pacific Ocean, being the first English map of the Pacific Ocean, loosely based on Jansson's 1650 map of the Pacific but much updated with additional coverage of the Gulf Coast and the southeastern co... More
A mapp of ye county of Essex : with its hundreds
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More
A new map of Germanie - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
New map of Germany | Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A chart of the coast of America from New found Land to Cape Cod
Published in Seller's Atlas Maritimus, the earliest general marine atlas produced in England, this was the first English chart of New England waters. It clearly shows the northern navigation routes with soundin... More
A mapp of the seat of the warrs in Germany and the Spanish Netherlands...
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A mapp of New England - Public domain vintage map
A foundation in the early history of the mapping of New England, this map is the first printed version of William Reed's original survey of 1665. The survey was commissioned by Massachusetts authorities to supp... More
A map of Virginia and Maryland - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Coll...
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More
A map of New England and New York - Public domain map
This beautifully engraved and colored map represents an English version of the Jansson-Visscher series of maps of northeastern North America. Since it was published shortly after the expulsion of the Dutch from... More
A New description of Carolina - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Colle...
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The counti of Warwick the shire towne and citie of Coventre described
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A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done...
Based on a 1665 survey by William Reed, this is the earliest map drawn, engraved and printed in North America. The survey was commissioned by the government of Massachusetts to justify the colony's northern and... More
A mapp of New Jersey in America - Public domain old map
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A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done...
This map was the first to be printed in the British Colonies, and though crude in appearance was for its time the best available map of the region. Based on a 1665 survey by Bostonian William Reed, it was repur... More
Essex actually surveyed with the several Roads from London &c
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North America, divided into its principall parts where are distinguish...
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More
A mapp of the Isles of Iapon - Public domain old map
Mapp of the Isles of Japon | Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
South America divided into its IIII principall parts : I Spanish part:...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
North America divided into its III principall parts : 1st English part...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new map of New England, New York, New Iarsey, Pensilvania, Maryland ...
England's widening sphere of influence in eastern North America is reflected on a late 17th century map published in London. By this time, the British had extended their territorial claims from the original Che... More
A new map of Carolina - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A map containing the towns, villages, gentlemens houses, roads, rivers...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The Seven United Provinces of Netherland : with its circumjacent borde...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new map of the Island of Barbadoes wherein every parish, plantation,...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new mapp of the world - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new mapp of England Scotland and Ireland
The Elizabethan Age was one that strived for regulation and obedience, but was marked by religious tension and political turmoil. Britain was ruled by Queen Elizabeth I from 1558 to 1603, with King James I succ... More
[The natural shape of England with the names of rivers, seaports, sand...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The turnings of the River Forth with ye adjacent County of Clackmanan ...
Turnings of the River Forth with ye adjacent County of Clackmanan and part of Stirling shire Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A generall mapp of the continent and islands which bee adjacent to Jam...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
This harbour of Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
Although undated, this earliest surviving plan of Boston Harbor dates from the period of Sir Edmund Andros' term as governor of New England from 1685-1689. It is most likely one of several manuscript maps of Ne... More
A new mapp of America devided according to the best and latest observa...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Nouvelle carte de la Pensylvanie, Maryland, Virginie, et Nouvelle Iars...
Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More
Boston Harbour in New England nautical chart
This is the first printed chart of Boston Harbor. It appeared only in the 1689 and 1698 editions of The English Pilot, The Fourth Book. Seller's publication became the most popular navigational manual for ships... More
A true survey of The Earl of Donagals barronie of Enish Owen containin...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into cou...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new map of Scotland with the roads
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More
An alphabetical table of all the cities, towns, villages and all other...
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A new mapp of New England and Annapolis and the countrys adjacent
As an example of early English mapping of the British Colonies in North America, Browne's map shows the northeastern part of the continent from the St. Lawrence River to the Chesapeake Bay. Interestingly, the m... More
The Spainish Netherlands, vulgarly called Flanders, devided into its X...
Spanish Netherlands, vulgarly called Flanders, divided into its ten provinces | Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
An epitome of Sr. William Petty's large survey of Ireland divided into...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The natural shape of England with the names of rivers, seaports, sands...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new mapp of Africa divided into kingdoms and provinces
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new map of England and Wales with the direct and cros roads also the...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
![[Plan of farm lands in Chelsea belonging to the Bill family]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn27/L3Bob3RvLzE2OTAvMDEvMDEvcGxhbi1vZi1mYXJtLWxhbmRzLWluLWNoZWxzZWEtYmVsb25naW5nLXRvLXRoZS1iaWxsLWZhbWlseS1lZjFhMGEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/44/webp "[Plan of farm lands in Chelsea belonging to the Bill family]")
[Plan of farm lands in Chelsea belonging to the Bill family]
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Spain and Portugal - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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The natural shape of England with the names of rivers, seaports, sands...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A New Map of ye Dukedome of Savoy, Principality of Piedmont county of ...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new mapp of the upper part of the Rhine containing all Switzerland t...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A map of Canaan : with the adjacent countrie's very usefull for the un...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Aanval op Québec, 1690 - Public domain vintage map
Aanval door Engelse schepen op de Fransen in de stad Québec, de aanval wordt afgeslagen, 16-22 oktober 1690. Kaart van Québc en omgeving met de Engelse vloot op de Saint Lawrencerivier voor de stad. Onderdeel v... More
A draught of Boston Harbor by Capt. Cyprian Southake
The 1694 copy of Southack's original chart was made by Augustine Fitzhugh. Boston Public Library copy is an exact duplicate, with exception of title and north point, of Boston Harbor in New England, 1689(?), in... More
A new map of Russia or Moscovie divided into its Kingdoms, Dukedoms, P...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new map of Ireland according to Sr. W. Petty (but supplied wth. many...
Collection of old maps | North part of Ireland | South part of Ireland Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new mapp of the Kingdom of Hungary and the states that have been sub...
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new map of Germany divided into its general and perticuler parts
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
To the Great Czar of Moscovie this Map of Tartary &c. is humbly dedica...
Map of Tartary | Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library