Americas

Bowen’s New General Map of America appeared in a number of publications, and features widely held cartographic misconceptions of the time, such as ...

This map of Jamaica includes vignettes of Kingston, Port Royal, Port Antonio, and a sugar mill. The map was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis...

America Septentrionalis a Domino d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in Anglia Coloniis in Interiorem Virginiam deductis nec non Fluvii Ohio... This ma...

Hill's Los Angeles City Map and Tourist Guide This detailed city plan of Los Angeles is bordered by an extensive street index. A legend identifies ...

This map of the Dominion of Canada was made by John Bartholomew & Son for Dawson Brothers.  It features insets of the environs of Montreal, New...

Portus Pulchri in Isthmo Panamensi [with] Scenographia Portus Pulchri This is a plan and view of the successful British attack on the wealthy and s...

Paul Bunyan's pictorial map of the United States depicting some of his deeds and exploits  Stories about Paul Bunyan, the lumberjack of gigantic pr...

After a lonely and hazardous journey (especially after he quarrelled and parted company with Major Stephen Long’s expedition) Beltrami (1779-1855) ...

This map of Central America was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis' popular ‘Illustrated Atlas’. It includes black and white vignettes of Beli...

This map of Nova Scotia was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis' popular ‘Illustrated Atlas’; it includes black and white vignettes of Halifax,...

This is one of the most detailed mid-19th Century American atlas maps of Cuba and the region, set within Colton’s distinctive style of border, by o...

The 'Revoltas da Armada', the Brazilian naval mutinies of 1893-1894, were linked with the Federalist Rebellion against the recently-formed First Br...

This route map was published in a report to Congress as ‘Letter from the postmaster general transmitting a report of General Bernard, of surveys of...

Our map of the Americas was prepared for the Homann firm by Johann Matthias Hase, professor of mathematics in Wittenberg, on his stereographic hori...

Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan This regional map covers Colombia and neighbouring parts of present day Panama, Ecuador, Costa Ri...

A July 1910 map of the Uptown and Downtown Hudson Tubes, pairs of tunnels connecting Jersey City with Greenwich Village in New York and with the Hu...

This is a late issue of Blaeu’s map of Guiana, with full-body colour typical of the later seventeenth-century. Seventeenth and eighteenth century m...

West Indies – Tobago – Scarborough – Rockly Bay This chart of Rockly Bay shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements...

This chart of Jamaica shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements, and an inset of Morant Cays. First published in 1...

Antilles – Ile de la Grenade This detailed chart of Grenada was derived from British Admiralty surveys. Condition & Materials French naval char...

Antilles – Ile de Culebra ou du Passage This detailed chart of Isla Culebra (now an island-municipality of Puerto Rico) was derived from British Ad...

A Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, exhibiting the seat of war both in Europe and America according to the latest discoveries and regulated by Astronomi...

This map of West Canada was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’. The map also includes black and white vignettes of Kingston, Ontar...

South America – British Guiana – Georgetown and mouths of Demerara and Essequibo Rivers This British chart of Georgetown shows soundings etc, with ...

The Falkland Islands, surveyed by Captains Robert Fitz Roy R.N., William Robinson R.N. and Bartholomew James Sulivan R.N. This map of the Falkland...

Carte générale des découvertes de l’Amiral de Fonte, representant le grande probabilité d’un Passage au Nord Ouest Maps depicting the purported voy...

This map of America is from Wyld's New General Atlas. James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passed to his...

Condition & Materials  Lithographed in red and black on two sheets, each 38.5 x 80 cm; this map of Long Island is printed on thin india paper; ...

Karte von der Insel St Lucia This map of the Caribbean island of St Lucia was published in the Dutch edition of Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voy...

South America – Magellan Strait – Western part from Punta Arenas to Cape Pillar This US naval chart of the Magellan Strait shows soundings, anchora...

West Indien – Haïti bis Martinique This Imperial German Naval Office chart shows sands, soundings and interior detail of relief. Condition & Ma...

Océan Pacifique – Ile Juan Fernandez – Mouillage de San Juan Bautista This French naval chart shows the anchorage at San Juan Bautista located on C...

West Indies – St Croix Island – Christiansted Harbour This is a US naval chart of Christiansted, the largest town on St Croix in the United States ...

This map of Dominica is from 'The Gentleman's Magazine'. It was published after the French recaptured the island during the Anglo-French War of 177...

Preliminary Chart – West Indies – Barbados This chart of Barbados shows sands and soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settleme...