General world map; relatively small number of coastal place names and no interior features or localities. One decorative cartouche containing title. From: The Great and newly enlarged Sea Atlas or Waterworld…"
Creator:
Keulen, Johannes van
Contributor:
Vooght, Claes Janszoon, -1696
Created:
1697
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This map is clearly based on a map published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg in 1758 which was published in England in 1761. It has features not found on the English version. It shows the American coast from California northward, and the coast of Asia from Japan northward.
Contributor:
Imperatorskai͡a akademīi͡a nauk i khudozhestv (Russia)
Created:
1765
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Cartographic Details: No scale given (W 130°--W 80°/N 76°--N 64°). Relief shown by hachures. Contains extensive place name detail as well as considerable text and routes referring to the various British expeditions in the Northwest Passage area. Presentation copy to Leut. Th. von Zeilau.
Creator:
Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873
Created:
1859
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Contains extensive place name detail as well as considerable text and routes referring to the various British expeditions in the Northwest Passage area.
Creator:
Arrowsmith, John
Created:
1859
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This is the first globular map to use the term "America" in designating the continents of the New World. It was originally published to accompany Waldseemüller’s Cosmographiae introductio.
Creator:
Waldseemüller, Martin
Created:
1507
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:6,500,000. Manuscript, produced in Venice. Inscriptions in Italian (Venetian dialect) and Portuguese. On the upper border of the chart is a scale of miles which represents 400 miles. For a discussion of this chart see: Cortesão, Armando. The nautical chart of 1424. Coimbra : University of Coimbra, 1954.
Creator:
Pizzigano, Zuane
Created:
1424
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Map is known as the "Peutinger table", it represents the imperial roads and posts throughout the Roman Empire at about 250 A.D. with editions to ca. 500 A.D. 8 maps on 4 sheets.
Contributor:
Welser, Marcus, 1558-1614
Created:
1650?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Shows the eastern coast of Brazil, including some forty place names, and the coast of Africa from Morocco to the Cape of Good Hope, with about 125 place names.
Created:
1524?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
A detailed map of the Columbia River recording discoveries for about one hundred miles made by a member of George Vancouver's expedition in 1792. The account of the voyage on which the map is based can be found in Vancouver's A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean.
Includes two inset maps of the north and south poles. From: Johann David Kohler's Schul- und Reisen-Atlas aller zu Erlernung der alten ... Nurnberg, 1719.
Creator:
Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Contributor:
Weigel, Christoph, 1654-1725; Kohler, Johann David, 1684-1755
Created:
1719
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
1 hand colored map that shows midwest part of Canada and New France, later known as the upper midwest area of the United States, including the Great Lakes.
Creator:
Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
Contributor:
Nolin, Jean Baptiste, 1657-1725; Du Tralage, Jean Nicolas, -1699
Created:
1688
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This edition of the map shows the Aleutian Islands in more realistic form than earlier editions, and changes the representation of the northwest coast of America radically.
Creator:
Miller, Gerard Fridrikh, 1705-1783
Created:
1784
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale 1:639 (E 2°13ʹ30ʺ--E 2°28ʹ11ʺ/N 48°54ʹ07ʺ--N 48°48ʹ56ʺ). "Dediè et presentè au roi par son tres humble tres oberssant et tres fidel ferviteur et suyet." "Pl. XXV." Includes text and illustrations.
Creator:
Lagrive, Jean de, 1689-1757; Duflos, Claude, 1665-1727
Contributor:
Louis Borde, Louis (Engraver)
Created:
1728
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The earliest printed map to show the internal overland and river routes of central Asia, based on extensive experience and correspondence with Asian travelers.1 map in 4 sheets.
Creator:
Witsen, Nicolaas, 1641-1717
Created:
1687
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This large wall map is made up of six sheets with the double hemisphere world map in the upper half surrounded by illustrations of astronomical interest. The lower half contains thirty-six squares providing brief geographical information on various countries. The lower half also includes busts and a brief text of different explorers, and medalli...
Creator:
Jaillot, Bernard
Created:
1733
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This fragment of an unknown planisphere is of special interest for its portrayal of Africa. Area shown extends from the British and Canary Islands on the west to the Red and Black Seas on the east.
Created:
1450
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Based on Iberian sources, this map shows the west coast of Africa from Morocco to Angola and the northeast coast of Brazil as well as the major island groups lying between Africa and South America.
Creator:
Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622
Created:
1592
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This map appears to have been made as a means for Russian authorities to record the voyage of Captain Cook in the Bering Sea area, 1779. It has additions in English attributed to Peter Simon Pallas.
Creator:
Tatarinov, Mikhail
Created:
1781
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Cartographic Details: No scale given (W 72°--W 60°/N 3°--S 3°); Alexander von Humboldt's hand drawn map of the Rio Negro area showing the connection between the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers via the Casiquiare River.
Creator:
von Humboldt, Alexander, 1769-1859
Created:
1800
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
A manuscript map by Alexander Humboldt drawn during the explorer/scientist’s voyage through South America (1799-1804). The map covers an area of 400 miles in length and centers on the Rio Negro. Humboldt’s discovery of the link between the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers is considered one of the top achievements of the entire expedition. The map i...
Creator:
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Created:
1800
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Title from paste on label at top of map.; Relief shown pictorially.; Cartouche: La France occidentale dans l'Amerique septentrional ou le cours de la riviere de St. Laurens aux environs de la quelle se trouvent le Canada, l'Acadie, et la Gaspasie les Esquimaux, les Hurons, les Iroquois, les Illinois & la Virginie, la Marie-Lande, la Pensilvanie,...
Creator:
de Fer, Nicolas, 1646-1720
Created:
1718
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Located between pages 86 and 87. Dablon says of this map: It was drawn by two fathers of considerable intelligence, interested in research and very accurate, who wished to set down nothing they had not seen with their own eyes. For this reason they have shown only the beginnings of Lake Huron and Lake Illinois.… because they do not have first-...
Created:
1672
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Kunyu wanguo quantu, or Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth, is the oldest surviving map in Chinese to show the Americas. It is a xylograph (wood block print) on six panels of fine native paper (made with bamboo fiber), each panel measuring approximately 608.33 mm x 1820 mm (2 feet by 5.75 feet). Li Zhizao (1565-1630), a Chinese mathe...
Creator:
Ricci, Mateo, 1552-1610
Contributor:
Zhizao, Li, 1565-1630; Wentao, Zhang (Printer)
Created:
1602
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Depicts the North Pacific Ocean between Kamchatka and Alaska, reflecting the views of Russian geographers in the late eighteenth century. The map was influenced by the voyage of Lieutenant Ivan Sindt, who explored the area for the Russians in 1764 to 1766.
Created:
1790
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Published in, John Ogilby, Africa : being an accurate description of the regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their c...
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Created:
1670
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:13,750,000 (E 100°--E 170°/N 25°--S 20°) Relief shown pictorially. Scale determined by using graticule method. "Ioannes à Doetechum fecit." Authorship and imprint from Wieder, F.C. Monumenta cartographica, volume 2, 1927. page 38, no. 22. Illustrations of nutmeg, clove, and sandalwood at foot of map.
Creator:
Plancius, Petrus 1552-1622
Contributor:
van Deutecum, Jan (egraver)
Created:
1592
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Pierre Moullart-Sanson was the grandson of Nicolas Sanson and the uncle of Gilles Robert de Vaugondy. He began making maps in 1693. This polar projection extending to the equator is in outline form with few interior details. California is an island and the northwest Pacific coast is undefined.
Creator:
Moullart-Sanson, Pierre
Created:
1704
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
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