264 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS
Henricus Martellus, world map, in Insularium
Illistratum, Florence, c.1490. Add. MS
15670, fols. 68v-69r. 30 x 47 cm.
Giovanni Contarini and Francesco Rosselli,
“Mundu spericum ... cognosces diligentia
joani mathei Contareni, arte et ingenio
francisci Roselli florentini 1506 notu”
[Florence?], c. 1506. Maps C.2.cc.4.
42 x 63 cm.
Martin Waldseemüller, “Universalis
cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei
traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]
que lustrationes.” [Strasbourg, France?]
- Library of Congress. 128 x 233 cm.
Vesconte de Maggiolo, world map in portolan
atlas, c. 1508. Egerton MS 2803. 21 x 28
cm.
Hernán Cortés, map of the Gulf of Mexico and
plan of Tenochtitlan, in Praeclara Ferdin di
Cortesii de Noua Maris Oceani Hyspania
narratio sacratissimo, 1524 (Nuremberg,
Germany: Friedrich Peypus, 1524). Photo
courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Ayer 655.51.C8 1524d. 30 x 47 cm.
Sebastian Münster, Map of the Americas, in
Novae insulae, XVII nova tabula (Basel: H.
Petri, 1540). Maps C.1.c.2. 28 x 35 cm.
Giacomo Gastaldi, “Cosmographia
Universaliset Exactissima iuxta postremam
neotericorum tradition[n]em. [Venice?]
c.1561. Maps C.18.n.1. 90 x 225 cm.
Diego Gutiérrez, “Americae sive qvartae orbis
partis nova et exactissima descriptio.”
(Antwerp? 1562) Maps * 69810.(18.)
92 x 93 cm.
John Dee, chart of part of the northern
hemisphere, 1580. Cotton MS. Augustus
I.i.1. 66 x 99 cm.
Robarte Tindall, a colored chart of the
entrance to Chesapeake Bay (1608).
Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.46. 46 x 81 cm.
John Smith, “Virginia” (Discovered and
Described by Captayn John Smith. Graven
by William Hole, 1612). G.7121.
31.5 x 40 cm.
John Smith, “New England,” in A Description of
New England: or The Observations, and
Discoveries, of Captain John Smith (London:
Printed for Humfrey Lownes, for Robert
Clerke, 1616) C.33.c.12. 29.5 x 39.5 cm.
Henry Briggs, “The North Part of America:
conteyning Newfoundland, New England,
Virginia, Florida, New Spaine, and Nova
Francia ... /R. Elstracke sculpsit.” (London:
Printed by William Stansby, for Henrie
Fetherstone, 1625). 679.h.11-14. 27.5 x
34.5 cm.
Hugo Allardt, “Effigies ampli Regni auriferi
Guineae in Africa siti ...” (Amsterdam,
c.1650). Based on the manuscript map of
Luis Teixeira of 1602. Courtesy of Stanford
University Library. 44 x 61 cm.
Samuel de Champlain, “Le Canada, faict par
le Sr. de Champlain, ou sont la Nouvelle
France, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Nouvelle
Holande, la Nouvelle Svede, la Virginie, &
Canada Avec les Nations voisines, et
autres Terres nouuellement decouurtes
suiuant les Memoires e P. Du Val,
Geographe du Roy” (Paris, 1653). Maps
70615.(8). 35 x 65 cm.
Robert Holmes, “A Description of the Towne
of Mannados or New Amsterdam as it was
in September 1661 ...” [London? 1664].
Maps K.Top.121.35. 52 x 66 cm.
William Hubbard and John Foster, “A Map of
New England, Being the first that ever was
here cut ... ,” in A Narrative of the Troubles
with the Indians in New-England ... by W.
Hubbard (Boston: Printed by John Foster,
1677). G.7146. 30 x 39.5 cm.
“A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in
the Province of Pennsylvania in America”
in: A Letter from William Penn, Proprietary and
Governour of Pennsylvania in America to the
Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that
Province ... By Thomas Holme, Surveyor
General. (London: Andrew Sowle, 1683).
C.32.l.2.(4.). 30.5 x 45.5 cm.
“A map of the province of Pennsilvania,
containing the three countyes of Chester,
Philadelphia, and Bucks, as far as yet
surveyed and laid out, &c., with the names
of the owners, by Thomas Holme,
surveyor-general” (c.1687). Add. MS. 5414
(23.). 81 x 137 cm.
“America Settentrionale colle nuoue scoperte
fin al-anno 1688,” in Atlante Veneto ... Opera
e studio del Padre Maestro Coronelli, etc.
(Venice, 1688). Maps C.44.f.6. volume 1,
following page 56. Two maps, each
measuring 62 x 46 cm.
Guillaume de L’Isle, “Carte de la Louisiane et
du Course du Mississipi,” in untitled atlas
(Paris, 1718). Maps C.36.f.4 item 17. 47 x
63.5 cm.
“A new map of the north parts of America
claimed by France under the names of
Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada and New
France, with the adjoyning Territories of
England and Spain.” By H. Moll. (London,
1720). Maps *69917.(29.). 60 x 100 cm.
“This Map describing the Scituation of the
Several Nations of Indians to the NW of
South Carolina was copyed from a Draught
drawn & painted on a Deer Skin, by an
Indian Cacique and presented to Francis
Nicholson, Esq., Governour of South
Carolina, by whom it is most humbly
Dedicated to his Royal Highness George
Prince of Wales.” Add. MS. 4723.
81 x 112 cm.
Mark Catesby, “A Map of Carolina, Florida
and the Bahama Islands,” in The Natural
History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama
Islands, 1731–43 (London: the Author,
1748). 44.k.7–9. 44.5 x 60 cm.
Cadwallader Colden, “A Map of the Country
of the Five Nations, belonging to the
Prince of New York; and of the Lakes near
which the Nations of Far Indians live, with
part of Canada.” [in The History of the Five
Indian Nations depending on the Province of
New-York in America] (London, Lockyer
Davis, 1755). 9555.a.1. 19 x 23 cm.
Malachy Postlethwayt, “A New and Correct
Map of the Coast of Africa ... ” (London:
Printed for J. & P. Knapton, [1757]. Maps
K.Top.117.90. 47 x 37 cm.
“A Map of the Most inhabited Part of Virginia
containing the whole Province of Maryland
with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and
North Carolina. Drawn by Joshua Fry &
Peter Jefferson in 1751. Engraved ... by
Thos. Jefferys.” Maps 188.l.3.(2.). One map
on four sheets, together measuring 78 x
124 cm.
“A map of the country between Will’s Creek
and Lake Erie, shewing the designs of the
French for erecting forts southward of the
lake; drawn ... before the erection of Fort
Duquesne,” circa 1754. Add. MS. 15563 B.
43 x 36 cm.
Lewis Evans, “A General Map of the Middle
British Colonies, in America” in
Geographical, Historical, Political,
Philosophical and Mechanical Essays, the First,
Containing an Analysis of a General Map of the
Middle British Colonies (Philadelphia,
Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1755).145.d.3. 49 x 65 cm.
“Plano geographico de la tierra descubierta
nuevamente, a los rumbos norte,
moroeste y oeste, del Nuevo Mexico,
demarcado por mi, Don Bernardo de
Miera y Pacheco ... ”. Add. MS. 17661 D.
69 x 81 cm.
“A Plan of the Town and Harbor of Boston.
And the Country adjacent with the Road
from Boston to Concord. Shewing the
Place of the late Engagement between the
King’s Troops & the Provincials, together
with the several Encampments of both
Armies and & about Boston.” (London: J.
Hand, 1775). Courtesy of the Newberry
Library, Chicago, Call #Map 2F3701.
S3.113. 37 x 49 cm.
“To His Excellency Genl Washington
Commander in Chief of the Armies of the
United States of America. This plan of the
investment of York and Gloucester has
been surveyed and laid down, and is Most
humbly dedicated by his Excellencys
Obedient and very humble servant.
Sebast.n Bauman Major of the New York or
2nd Reg.t of Artillery. Add. MS. 57715 (13.).
49 x 45 cm.
“A Map of the British Colonies in North
America with the Roads, Distances, Limits
and Extent of the Settlements, Humbly
Inscribed to the Right Honourable The Earl
of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable
The Lords Commisioners for Trade &
Plantations, / By their Lordships Most
Obliged and very humble Servant Jn.o
Mitchell,” (London: the author, 1755,
Printed for Jefferys & Faden Geographers
to the King ... [about 1775, with
manuscript additions 1782]). Maps K.
Top.118.49.b. 136 x 193 cm.
“This Map of Kentucke, Drawn from actual
Observations, is inscribed with the most
perfect respect to the Honorable the
Congress of the United States of America,
and to his Excell.cy George Washington,
late Commander of the Chief of their Army.
By their Humble Servant, John Filson,” in
Filson, The Discovery, Settlement, and Present
State of Kentucke (Wilmington: Printed
by James Adams, 1784). C.55.c.38.
48 x 44 cm.
Abel Buell, “A New and Correct Map of the
United States of North America,” (New
Haven, CT: 1784). Maps *71490.(150.)
127 x 160 cm.
James Poupard and Benjamin Franklin, “A
Chart of the Gulf Stream,” in Transactions
of the American Philosophical Society
(Philadelphia, 1786). Courtesy of the
Library of Congress. 21 x 26 cm.
Andrew Ellicott [and Pierre Charles L’Enfant],
“Plan of the City of Washington in the
Territory of Columbia, ceded by the States
of Virginia and Maryland to the United
States of America and by them established
as the seat of their Government after the
year 1800.” (Philadelphia: Thackara
& Vallance, 1792). Maps *72310.(1.).
57 x 70 cm.
“A Map of the United States, exhibiting the
Post-Roads, the situations, connections &
distances of the Post-Offices, Stage Roads,
Counties, Ports of Entry and Delivery for
foreign vessels, and the principal Rivers.
By Abraham Bradley, junr. W. Barker Sculp.
(Philadelphia, 1796). Maps *71490.(10.).
93 x 86.5 cm.
Aaron Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis,
“Louisiana,” in A New and Elegant General
Atlas, Comprising All the New Discoveries, tothe Present Time (Philadelphia: J. Conrad,
1804). 25 x 20 cm. Courtesy of David
Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey
Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
“A Map of Lewis and Clark’s Track, across the
Western Portion of North America. From
the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; By
Order of the Executive of the United States
in 1804, 5 & 6.,” Copied by Samuel Lewis
from the Original Drawing of Wm. Clark.,
in History of the Expedition under the
Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the
Sources of the Missouri ... (Philadelphia:
Bradford & Inskeep, 1814). 1431.h.2-3.
30 x 70 cm.
“The Gerry-Mander, or Essex South District
Formed Into a Monster!,” in Salem Gazette
(April 2, 1813). Courtesy of Cornell
University—PJ Mode Collection of
Persuasive Maps. Map 19 x 16 cm.
Catharine Cook, “A Map of the United States”
from “Catharine M. Cook’s Book of
Penmanship at Mr. Dunham’s School,
Windsor Vermont June 15, 1818.” Courtesy
of Osher Map Library, University of
Southern Maine. Map on page measuring
24 x 19 cm.
“New York,” Drawn by F. Lucas Jr., in Memoir,
Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the
Common Council of the City of New York ... at
the Celebration of the Completion of the New
York Canals. By Cadwallader D. Colden (New
York, 1825). 714.g.25. 30.5 x 47 cm.
“Map of the United States, with the
contiguous British & Spanish Posses-
sions.” Compiled ... by J. Melish
(Philadelphia, 1823). Courtesy of
David Rumsey Map Collection, David
Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
109 x 143 cm.
John Christian Wiltberger Jr., “Temperance
Map.” Courtesy of Cornell University—PJ
Mode Collection of Persuasive Maps. 31 x
36 cm.
Map of Vermont, in Atlas of the United States
Printed for the Use of the Blind ...Under the
direction of S. G. Howe, etc. (Boston:
Institution for the Education of the Blind,
1837). Maps 1.c.2. 27 x 22 cm.
“Map Illustrating the plan of the defences of
the Western & North-Western Frontier, as
proposed by Charles Gratiot, in his report
of Oct. 31, 1837.” Compiled in the U.S.
Topographical Bureau under the direction
of Col. J. J. Abert, U.S.T.E. by [Washing-
ton]. Hood.” (Washington, DC: U.S. War
Department, 1837). 54 x 38 cm.
S. Augustus Mitchell, “A New Map of Texas
Oregon and California, with the regions
adjoining” (Philadelphia: S. A. Mitchell,
1846). Courtesy of David Rumsey Map
Collection, David Rumsey Map Center,
Stanford Libraries. 57 x 52 cm.
Section IV of “Topographical Map of the Road
from Missouri to Oregon Commencing at
the Mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri
River and Ending at the Mouth of the
Wallah-Wallah in the Columbia. In VII
Sections. From the field notes and journal
of Capt. J. C. Fremont, and from sketches
and notes made on the ground by his
assistant, C. Preuss. Compiled by Charles
Preuss, 1846, by order of the Senate of the
United States.” (Washington, DC:
E. Weber & Co., 1846). Maps 32.d.9. 41 x
67 cm.
“Topographical Sketch of the Gold &
Quicksilver District of California. July 25,
1848.” E.O.C. Ord., Lt. U.S.A. Courtesy of
Library of Congress. 54 x 42 cm.LIST OF MAPS