Featured Maps
The New World
1545
The New World, Pedro de Medina, 1545 Nuevo Mundo, from Arte de Navigar, Valladolid, 1545. Woodcut.Pedro de Medina’s map is one of the few early printed works composed by someone who had actually been to America, having sailed there with He...
Blaeu's First Atlas of the World
1631
Blaeu’s first world atlas, produced from plates acquired from Jodocus Hondius II, a family member of the rival firm of Jaonnes Janssonius and Henricus Hondius.First published the previous year in 1630, this is the second issue of the 1631 edition,...
Earliest Obtainable Map to Name America
1520
World Map on a Cordiform Projection, Petrus Apianus, 1520 Tipus Orbis Universalis IVXTA Ptolomei Cosmographi Traditionem et Americi Vespucci Aliorque Lustrationes a Petro Apiano Leysnico Elubrat. An. Do. 1520. From: Ionnis Camertis minoritani… e...
Chesapeake and Delaware Bays
1733
Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, Benjamin Franklin, 1733 In: Articles of Agreement made and concluded upon between the Right Honourable the Lord proprietary of Maryland, and the Honourable the proprietarys of Pensilvania, &c. touching the limits ...
China, olim Sinarum
1584
China, Luis Jorgé de Barbuda /Abraham Ortelius, 1584 (West is at the top) Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. auctore Ludovico Georgio… In: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, ...
Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent Thereto
1733
The first large-scale printed map of Colonial North America, the first printed map to show the thirteen colonies, and a monument of North American cartography.Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America marks the beginning of a new epoch in...
Nova Orbis Terrarum
1658
Its imperial double-eagle design borrowed from a map made by Georg Braun in 1574, this world map by the German cartographer Philip Eckebrecht was created as a complement to astronomical tables published by Eckebrecht’s friend, Johannes Kepler, fo...
New England
1677
New England, John Foster, 1677 A Map of New England, Being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best Pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact; yet does it sufficiently shew the Scituation ...
Forlani's third map of the world
1565
World map, Paolo Forlani /Bertelli, Venice, 1565 Universale Descrittione di Tutta la Terra Conosciuta Fin Qui. From: Italian composite atlases. Copperplate engraving.The influential Italian cosmographer Giacomo Gastaldi published a world map in ...
Forlani's first map of the World
1562
Forlani's first map of the world, here in the second state, dated 1562. An extremely beautiful map based on Giacomo Gastaldi's world map of 1546, which was "an influential prototype. It was reduced and redrawn for the Ptolemy-Gastaldi atlas of...
