North America
1556, La Nuova Francia. Venice,
1556. Giovanni Battista Ramusio. From Vol. 3 of his Navigationi
et Viaggi.
(The long curved line around the bottom and right side of the
map represents the Grand Banks, and the decorative devices reflect
the importance of fishing off the eastern coast)
1556, La Nuova Francia. Giovanni
Battista Ramusio. From the second edition of the Viaggi,
published in 1565.
(For this edition a completely new wood-block was used, the
changes most evident in the shape of the trees and the sea creatures
at the bottom)
1597, Norumbega Et Virginia. Louvain,
Cornelius Wytfliet.
From Descriptionis Ptolemaeici augmentum, the first atlas
of America.
1667, Extreme Americae versus Boream,
ubi Terra Nova Nova Francia Adjacentiaq. Amsterdam, 1667.
Joan Blaeu. From the 1667 French edition of Blaeu's Grand Atlas.
(A derivation based on Champlain's 1632 map.)
1685, Partie de la Nouvelle France.
Paris, 1685. Hubert Jaillot.
From the Atlas Francois, Contenant Les Cartes Geographiques...
1687, L'America Settentrionale.
Rome, 1687. Guillaume Sanson
1700, La Canada ou Partie de la Nouvelle
France, contenant la Terre de Labrador la Nouvelle France, les
Isles de Terre neuve, de Nostre Dame & c. Amsterdam, [c.1700].
Pierre Mortier
From the Suite de Neptune Francois ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes
Marines.
1702, Tabula Californiae., Father
E. F. Chino, place of printing unknown
1704, L'Amerique septentrionale, ou
la Partie Septentrionale des Indes Occidentales ou se trouve le
Canada ou Noulle France... Paris, 1704. Jean Baptiste Nolin.
1754, A Map of the Western parts of
the Colony of Virginia, London, J. Gibson.
Originally published in the London Magazine
1758, A Map of the Colonies of Connecticut
and Rhode Island, Divided into Counties & Townships, from the
best Authorities. Thomas Kitchin, place of printing unknown.
The first printed map that is primarily of Connecticut now extant,
it shows township lines not found on any existing earlier sources.
1759, To the Right Honourable William
Pitt, Esq...An Authentic Plan of the River St. Laurence....with
the Operations of the Siege of Quebec. London, Thomas Jefferys.
1760, A map of North America from the
Latest Surveys and Maps. London, [1768?]. John Blair. Engraved
by Thomas Kitchin.
From Blair's The Chronology and History of the World
1760, Carte de la Nouvelle France...
1745. Ottens.
The second state of a map first published about 1720, which was
based on a 1719 map by Chatelain.
1760, A map of Canada and the North
Part of Louisiana with the Adjacent Countrys.London, 1760.
Thomas Jefferys.
Published in A Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions
in North and South America.
1770, A New Map of the Cherokee Nation...
London, Thomas Kitchin.
1778, A Plan of the several Villages
in the Illinois Country, with part of the River Mississippi &c.
Thomas Hutchins, place of origin unknown.
1799, A New Map of Connecicut from the
Best Authorities. New York: J. Low, 1799.
1812, Louisiana, S. Lewis, place
of origin unknown.
Originally printed in A New and Elegant General Atlas,
by A. Arrowsmith and S. Lewis.
1817, Connecticut. (Baltimore, F. Lucas,
1817?)
1820, A Map of the Five Great Lakes
with part of Pensilvania, New York, Canada, and Hudsons Bay Territories
&c. maker and place of origin unknown.
1824, Connecticut B.T. Welch Sc.
Drawn & Published by F. Lucas, Jr. Baltimore, (1824).
1830, Virginia, Philadelphia, A.
Finley
1870, North America, Tokyo,
maker unknown
From the World Atlas in the Lanman
Collection
Mexico and the Caribbean
1550, The Lake of Mexico and Parts Adjacent,
maker and place of origin unknown.
1576, Cuba, Venice, S. Galignani
and G. Porro.
This map and the two following were originally printed in the
second edition of Thomaso Porcacchi's L'Isole piu famose del
mondo
1576, Iamaica, Venice, S. Galignani
and G. Porro.
1576, Spagnuola, Venice, S. Galignani
and G. Porro.
1690, San Domingo, maker and
place of origin unknown.
1700, Archipelagus Americanus,
maker and place of origin unknown
1702, Le Vieux Mexique ou Nouvelle
Espagne auec les costes de la Floride, Paris, N. de Fer.
1728, The Island of Jamaica, London
(?), H. Moll
1814, Charte der Insel Puertorico,
Weimar, C. Ehrlich
1823, The Route of Columbus on arriving
among the Bahama Islands, New York, D.G. Johnson, lettering
by D.R. Harrison.
South America
1590, Freti Magellanici, maker
and place of origin unknown.
Captions in Latin and Dutch. Possibly from an edition of Mercator's
Atlas Minor
?1690, Detroit de Magellan, maker
and place of origin unknown.
1756, Karte von Paraguay, maker
and place of origin unknown.
1775, Carte du Chili, depuis le sud
du Perou jusqu'au Cap Horn, Paris, M. Bonne
1870, South America,
Tokyo, maker unknown
From the World Atlas in the Lanman
Collection