age of discovery, america

Bernard Picart - Voorstellingen van priester en tovenaar

Blad met drie voorstellingen van Amerikaanse Indianen uit Virginia. Boven: Een priester in een mantel waar één arm uitsteekt. Het haar kortgeschoren. Onder: Een tovenaar of waarzegger in een ottervel en met een... More

Americae siue noui orbis, noua descriptio, Abraham Ortelius

Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Americae siue noui orbis, noua descriptio, Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598

Ortelius's map of the Americas was one of the most identifiable and most famous cartographic representations of the western hemisphere created during the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography. It enjoyed great popula... More

Americae et proximar regionvm orae descriptio

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Discovery of America: Vespucci Landing in America

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Discovery of America: Vespucci Landing in America

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Titelpagina van het pamflet: Den Spaenschen ende Arragoenschen spiegel...

Titelprent van een pamflet getiteld: Den Spaenschen ende Arragoenschen spiegel. Inde welcke men mach claerlick ende waerachtich sien tot wat eynde ... het voornemen is ... van 't Spaensche Crijchsvolck, dat hem... More

Weduwen van Amerikaanse Indianen uit Florida

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Oorlogsplechtigheden van Amerikaanse Indianen uit Florida

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Bernard Picart - Oorlogsritueel van Amerikaanse Indianen uit Virginia

Voorstelling van een plechtigheid om een overwinning te vieren. De Indianen hebben zich rond een groot vuur geschaard. Ze dansen en maken muziek met kalebassen. Onder de voorstelling een onderschrift in het Frans.

Bernard Picart - Oorlogsplechtigheden van Amerikaanse Indianen uit Flo...

Blad met twee voorstellingen van plechtigheden van Amerikaanse Indianen uit Florida. Boven: Een koning woont een ritueel ter voorbereiding van een oorlogsexpeditie bij. Onder: Een koning raadpleegt een tovenaar... More

Offerrituelen van de Amerikaanse Indianen uit Florida

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Graftombe van de koningen van de Amerikaanse Indianen uit Virginia

De Indianen uit Virginia bewaren de lichamen van hun koningen en opperhoofden. In de graftombe staat een afgodsbeeld van Kiwasa. Een priester houdt naast een vuur de wacht bij de lichamen. Onder de voorstelling... More

Oorlogsritueel van Amerikaanse Indianen uit Virginia

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America, Jodocus Hondius - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Amerique Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Maris Pacifici (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum regionibus circumiacentibu...

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Stefano Della Bella - Vrouw uit Virginia

Speelkaart met een voorstelling van een staande vrouw in exotische dracht uit Virginia. Tekst in ondermarge. Genummerd linksboven: 9.

America, noviter delineata Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Includes insets of Greenland and Antarctica and ill. of native figures and town views in margins. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisition... More

New England. Historic map, Library of Congress

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John Smith - Virginia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Sixth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Accompanied by 2 exhibit notes and LC jacket note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

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Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

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Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

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Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

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Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

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Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

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Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes : contayning a history ...

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America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and...

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Americae sive Indiae occidentalis tabula generalis.

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America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and...

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Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium, et Virginia

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Caert vande Svydt Rivier in Niew Nederland.

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the region of the Delaware Bay and river, natural features, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons... More

Pascaert van Nieuw Nederlandt Virginia, ende Nieuw-Engelandt verthonen...

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Noort Rivier in Niew Neerlandt. - Public domain old map

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the Hudson River from Manhattan Island to Albany, natural features, and other geographical entities in the region. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attribut... More

Jean Boisseau - America noviter delineata / Historic map, Library of C...

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America noviter delineata - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collectio...

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Wenceslaus Hollar - Mulier ex Virginia

Vrouw uit Virginia, Amerika. Overgenomen van Thoedor de Bry, naar tekening van John white in Thomas Harriot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virgina, Frankfurt, 1590.

Portret van een Amerikaanse Indiaan uit Virginia

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Americae nova tabula (Willem Janszoon Blaeu 1571-1638)

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West-Indische paskaert : waer in de graden der breedde over weder zyde...

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America Septentrionalis / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in v. 3 of Nieuwen atlas, ofte vverelt-beschrijvinge, vertonende de voornaemste rijcken ende landen des gheheelen Aerdt-Bodems. Amstelodami : Apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1652-3. E... More

Americae nova tabula, Joan Blaeu 1596-1673

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Americae - Jan van Den Velde - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collec...

Nova totius Americae sive novi orbis tabula Courtesy of Boston Public Library

America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and...

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Americæ nova descriptio - Public domain vintage map

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Americae - Jan van Den Velde - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collec...

Nova totius Americae sive novi orbis tabula Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Mappa fluxus et refluxus rationes in isthmo Americano, in Freto Magell...

Regions and Seasons: Mariners have charted the oceans since the late 13th century. However, the 1670 map here is not a general sea chart, but is one of the first thematic maps produced. Thematic maps illustrate... More

A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye hills, and in it's latt. from 35 d...

Relief shown pictorially. Based on a manuscript map drawn by John Farrer. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, portrait of ... More

Manatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier.

Manuscript. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Covers New York City region. Pictorial map showing buildings and points of interest. Depths shown by soundings. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as... More

America noviter delineata Historic map, Library of Congress

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Paskaert zijde de Noordelickste Zeekusten van America van Groenlandt d...

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A chart of the South Sea - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Map of the Pacific Ocean, being the first English map of the Pacific Ocean, loosely based on Jansson's 1650 map of the Pacific but much updated with additional coverage of the Gulf Coast and the southeastern co... More

Paskaarte van het zuydelijckste van America, van Rio de la Plata tot C...

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Virginia and Maryland as it is planted and inhabited this present year...

Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes cartouche, portait of Augustine Herrman, text, and ill. Vault

Pas caarte van Nieu Nederlandt nautical chart

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Pas caerte van Nieu Nederlandt en de Engelsche Virginies : van Cabo Co...

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A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvani...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Date and attribution from On the Map, 1983 (Figure 24). First state of map published originally in 1685 by Christopher Browne with the imprint in the cartouc... More

A map of ye English Empire in ye continent of America : viz Virginia, ...

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A map of the improved part of the Province of Pennsilvania in America ...

Shows rural landholders' names, lot lines, and proprietary manors. Map content (as of 1687) does not differ from earlier eds. Title from upper border. Statement of dedication at upper left:To the worthey Willia... More

A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into cou...

Shows rural landholders' names and lots in Philadelphia, Chester, and Bucks Counties. First issue. From the Rosenwald Collection, no. 1308. Includes indexes of landholders, inset of "The City of Philadelphia, t... More

A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into cou...

Shows rural landholders' names and lots in Philadelphia, Chester, and Bucks Counties. Third issue. Includes indexes of landholders, inset of "The city of Philadelphia, two miles in length and one in breadth," a... More

A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into cou...

Shows rural landholders' names and lots in Philadelphia, Chester, and Bucks Counties. First issue. Includes indexes of landholders, inset of "The city of Philadelphia, two miles in length and one in breadth," a... More

America Settentrionale colle nuoue scoperte fin al'anno 1688, diuisa n...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island. Appears in the author's Atlante veneto, 1691-1697. Includes notes and illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ... More

Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio - Vintage map, N...

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Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ : nec non partis Virginiæ tabula multis in ...

A new map of New England, New York, New Iarsey, Pensilvania, Maryland,...

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Carte particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie, la Nouvelle Ia...

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Amerique septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties /

Based on a map published by Nicolas Sanson in 1650. Latin title in upper margin: "America septentrionalis in suas praecipuas parte divisa, ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae ducis." Relief shown pictorially. Availa... More

A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvani...

Relief shown pictorially. Date and attribution from On the map, 1983. Second state of map published originally in 1685 by Christopher Browne. This state differs from the earlier one in lacking the publisher's i... More

A new map of the most considerable plantations of the English in Ameri...

Americam utramque : aliis correctiorem /

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Dedicated to "Iacobo Boreel" by G. van Keulen. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 10-87 Vault

Plan de la va. y Fuerte Rl. de la Isla Martinica.

Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Watermarks: I. Honig; and, fleur-de-lis. Black and brown inks. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 520 Available also through t... More

Nov. Orbis sive America septentrionalis divisa per sua regna provinc e...

Escala gráfica además en "milliaria gallica com. 25 in uno gradu". Coordenadas referidas a un meridiano que no se especifica (E 200º-E 020º/N 080º-N 05º). Orientado con lis

An explanation on the prospect draft of the Fort William and Mary on P...

Drawing shows Fort William and Mary on the Piscataqua River with surrounding landscape and buildings in "the town of New Castle on the Great Island"; many features are identified by letter with corresponding ke... More

A new mapp of East and West New Jarsey [sic] : being an exact survey /

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. See Report of the Library of Congress for 1917, p. 56. Vault

America Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes inset of Arctic regions and ill. LC copy imperfect: Margin torn, with some sections missing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as ... More

America in praecipuas ipsius partes distributa ad observationes Academ...

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Koning en Koningin van de Mississippi, 1720

Een gezin van drie Noord-Amerikaanse indianen, de koning en koningin van de Mississippi genoemd. Op de achtergrond kannibalisme, het roosteren op een vuur van menselijke ledematen. Gebruikt als verwijzing naar ... More

La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos, Apostolic...

Relief shown pictorially. McLaughlin, G. Mapping of California as an island, 196 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault 2 copies; copy 2 is b&w

Goden van de Amerikaanse Indianen uit Virginia

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Goden van de Amerikaanse Indianen uit Virginia

Blad met twee voorstellingen van goden die de Amerikaanse Indianen uit Virginia vereren. Boven: Het afgodsbeeld van Kiwasa. Onder: Het afgodsbeeld van de god van de wind. Onder de voorstellingen een onderschrif... More

Graftombe van de koningen van de Amerikaanse Indianen uit Virginia

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Entre los dos meridianos senal a dos seconliene la navegación y desubr...

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L'Amérique : dressée sur les relations les plus récentes, rectifiées s...

Scale ca. 1:16,000,000 at the equator. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes notes and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AAC... More

Carte réduite de l'Ocean occidental contenant partie des costes d'Euro...

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Kinders hier kunt gy aanschouwen / Indiaansche mans en vrouwen

Blad met 4 voorstellingen van Noord- en Zuid-Amerikaanse indianen, mannen en vrouwen. De indianen in de vierde voorstelling aangeduid als Magalaners (inwoners van Vuurland). Onder elke afbeelding een tweeregeli... More

map from "[A History of the United States, from the discovery of the A...

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To His Excellency Genl. Washington, Commander in Chief of the armies o...

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map from "[The naval gazetteer; or, Seaman's complete guide ... First ...

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map from "The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, late Commissioner on behalf ...

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