age of discovery, geography

Ferdinand Magellan, 1581, 16th century, engraving, Library of Congress

Portrait, bust, facing left. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Vasco de Gama [Vasco da Gama] [8268]

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Portrait de Fernand Magellan, portugais

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Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, d...

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Crispijn van de Passe I - Portret van Ferdinand Magellan

Portret van de Portugese ontdekkingsreiziger Ferdinand Magellan, eronder zijn devies in het Latijn. In het randschrift van de omlijsting de naam en functie van de geportretteerde in het Latijn. In de hoeken glo... More

Simon Fokke - Vier historische figuren in gesprek

Gesprek in de buitenlucht tussen Vasco da Gama, Jacob Mossel, Pieter van den Broecke en Cornelis de Houtman. Hierboven vliegt een engel die de bazuin blaast. Een man bovenop een rotswand heeft de Hollandse vlag... More

[Dutch soldiers battling natives at Strait of Magellan. Chile. ca. 160...

Illus. in: Theodore De Bry, America, Pt. 9, Frankfurt, 1601, plate VII. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Water; Publ. Ind.; Warfare, Naval; Port. Hist.; Neth. ... More

Gades., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain vintage map

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Pieter Serwouters - Gezicht op de stad Bantam

Op de voorgrond begroeten twee Europeanen een groepje oosterlingen, dat zit te rusten op een landtong. Daarachter de zee met de Nederlandse vloot. Op de achtergrond de stad Bantam. In de wolken een allegorische... More

Map of the Strait of Magellan - Public domain old map

Illus. in: Nodal. Relacion del viaj́e qve por orden de Sv Mag.d y acverdo del Real consejo de Indias (Madrid, 1621). Reference copy may be in SSF - MAPS. This record contains unverified, old data from caption c... More

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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[Title page illus. with ship VICTORIA and bust portraits of circumnavi...

[Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Flo...

Shows coastal features, Native American nations and settlements, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harr... More

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

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...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes insets of north and south polar regions. Acquisitions control no. 3-85

Vniversale descrittione di tvtto il monde /

Relief shown pictorially. Probably the second state of the map. Differs from the first state in the reworking of Tierra del Fuego to include the Straits of Magellan. Presents Staten Island, west of Tierra del F... More

Novvelle et exacte description dv globe terrestre

Includes illustrations of the seasons and the elements, notes, and two celestial hemispheres. According to Shirley, the map is based on one by Visscher, rather than Blaeu. Illustrations of costumes: Francois --... More

Portret van Thales van Milete - Public domain portrait engraving

Portret van de ontdekkingsreiziger Ferdinand Magellan, in dit album gebruikt als afbeelding van Thales van Milete, een van de zeven wijzen van Griekenland. De begeleidende tekst begint met een kleine gedecoreer... More

La Floride / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coastline from Secotan in Virginia to Planuco in Mexico; the interior is shown to 40 degrees of latitude north and includes lakes and rivers in the region. Prime meridian: [F... More

Abraham van den Broeck - Korte beschryvinge van de landschappen des we...

Scales vary. Title from leather label on cover. Label has monogram E. B. de V., surmounted by a crown. Maps, not dated, intended to be bound in a Bible, but assembled in a modern half Morocco binding. The maps... More

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

Pascaerte van Nova Hispania, Chili, Peru, en Gvatimala.

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Vasco da Gama op audiëntie bij koning van Calcutta

Vasco da Gama en zijn gevolg buigen voor de koning van Calcutta. De koning ligt op een troon onder een baldakijn. Op de achtergrond gezicht op Calcutta.

Vasco da Gama op audiëntie bij koning van Calcutta

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Vasco da Gama op audiëntie bij koning van Calcutta

Vasco da Gama en zijn gevolg buigen voor de koning van Calcutta. De koning ligt op een troon onder een baldakijn. Op de achtergrond gezicht op Calcutta.

Vincenzo Coronelli - [Globe gore featuring North American coastline]

Displayed here is a globe gore (segments of paper printed with map images and cut to fit over the globe's sphere) showing North America's northeast coast and the North Atlantic. The gore is the work of Coronell... More

Carte exacte de toutes les provinces, villes, bourgs, villages et rivi...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. LC copy annotated in ink on verso: 95. Vault

Carte tres curieuse de la Mer du Sud, contenant des remarques nouvelle...

Richly decorated in the tradition of Dutch cartography, this map extends from eastern Asia to western Europe but focuses on the Pacific Ocean and the Americas. It is attributed to Henri Abraham Chatelain, a Hug... More

Carte de l'ocean occidental et partie de l'Amerique septentrionale : d...

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Carte du golphe de St. Laurent et pays voisins, pour servir á l'Histoi...

Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Tom. XIII, in 4⁰, no. 2. Tome 14, in 8⁰, page 263." Appears in Jean Francois de La Harp's Abŕégé de l'historie generale des voyages. 1780. LC Maps of North Amer... More

Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing Presents to Cap.J Cook. Plate 61. ...

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A view of Owhyhee, one of the Sandwich Islands

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A new chart of the Atlantic or Western Ocean nautical chart

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Vasco da Gama da' a sua embaixada ao camorim. Em calcut

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Vasco da Gama chegando de descobria a India

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The view of Huahine, one of the Society Islands in the South Seas

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portrait from "An Account of a geographical and astronomical expeditio...

This image has been taken from scan 000073 from "An Account of a geographical and astronomical expedition to the northern parts of Russia, performed by ... J. Billings in the year 1785 ... to 1794. The whole na... More

map from "Modern Geography, a description of the Empires, states, and ...

This image has been taken from scan 000701 from volume 02 of "Modern Geography, a description of the Empires, states, and colonies, with the oceans, seas and islands in all parts of the World ... The Astronomic... More

map from "Modern Geography, a description of the Empires, states, and ...

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map from "Modern Geography, a description of the Empires, states, and ...

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people from "A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean ... Perf...

This image has been taken from scan 000132 from "A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean ... Performed in His Majesty's Sloop Providence, and her tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798. [With plat... More

map from "[Modern Geography ... Abridged from the larger work.]"

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map from "Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia...

This image has been taken from scan 000306 from volume 02 of "Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt. 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806. [With plates by Henry Salt.]". The title a... More

map from "Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia...

This image has been taken from scan 000243 from volume 03 of "Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt. 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806. [With plates by Henry Salt.]". The title a... More

Map from "A System of Modern Geography, or the natural and political h...

This image has been taken from scan 000023 from volume 01 of "A System of Modern Geography, or the natural and political history of the present state of the world, etc". The title and subject terms of this imag... More

map from "[Modern geography ... The astronomical introduction by M. La...

This image has been taken from scan 000628 from volume 01 of "[Modern geography ... The astronomical introduction by M. La Croix ... Translated by John Pond ... The third edition, corrected, etc.]". The title a... More

map from "Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, performed in the years...

This image has been taken from scan 000231 from volume 02 of "Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, performed in the years 1814 and 1815, in company with the Rev. S. Marsden, etc". The title and subject terms o... More

map from "Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea,...

This image has been taken from scan 000270 from "Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island. With an appendix ... and a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo Language, by H.... More

map from "Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the coast of Cor...

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map from "Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-West Passage to ...

This image has been taken from scan 000200 from "Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-West Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait, during the summer of 1817". The title a... More

map from "Voyage along the Eastern Coast of Africa ... to St. Helena; ...

This image has been taken from scan 000013 from "Voyage along the Eastern Coast of Africa ... to St. Helena; to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the Nisus Frigate. [With two charts.]". The ti... More

map from "Voyage of his Majesty's ship Alceste, to China ... Third edi...

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Map of Black Sea and environs - Public domain map engraving

Relief shown by hachures and landforms. Depths shown by soundings. Title supplied by cataloger. Shows ports, inlets, cities, and other geographical features. Armenian and Ottoman Turkish. In cartouche: Gtsagrea... More

map from "A Geographical and Commercial View of Northern Central Afric...

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "A Geographical and Commercial View of Northern Central Africa: containing a particular account of the course and termination of the great river Niger in the Atla... More

map from "Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-fishery; including...

This image has been taken from scan 000391 from "Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-fishery; including researches and discoveries in the Eastern coast of West Greenland, made in the summer of the year 18... More

map from "Geographical memoirs on New South Wales. By various hands .....

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map from "[A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar; and...

This image has been taken from scan 000846 from "[A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar; and present state of the several kingdoms of the world ... The astronomical part by James Ferguson, F.R.... More

map from "[A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar; and...

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map from "A new Voyage round the world, in ... 1823, 24, 25, and 26. (...

This image has been taken from scan 000223 from "A new Voyage round the world, in ... 1823, 24, 25, and 26. (Appendix.-Review of the Zoological Collection of F. Eschscholtz.)". The title and subject terms of th... More

map from "The last voyage of Capt. Sir J. Ross, ... to the Arctic Regi...

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Na mokupuni o Hawaii nei / - Public domain old map

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map from "Narrative of a Voyage of Observation among the Colonies of W...

This image has been taken from scan 000077 from volume 02 of "Narrative of a Voyage of Observation among the Colonies of Western Africa ... and of a campaign in Kaffir-Land ... in 1835 ... Illustrated with maps... More

Connecticut from "A Book of the United States: exhibiting its geograph...

This image has been taken from scan 000300 from "A Book of the United States: exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ... together with a condensed history of the land ... the biography... More

Fort Conanicut from "A Book of the United States; exhibiting its geogr...

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Sentinel Island from "Reconnoitering Voyages and Travels, with adventu...

This image has been taken from scan 000009 from "Reconnoitering Voyages and Travels, with adventures in the New Colonies of South Australia, ... including visits to the Nicobar and other islands of the Indian S... More

Connecticut from "A Book of the United States; exhibiting its geograph...

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Massachusetts from "Historical Collections ... relating to the history...

This image has been taken from scan 000580 from "Historical Collections ... relating to the history and antiquities of every town in Massachusetts, with geographical descriptions. [With illustrations.]". The ti... More

Caricature, Voyage à Saint-Cloud, public domain cartoon image

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map from "A Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles"

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map from "Memoir of the South and East Coasts of Arabia ... Part II. (...

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from "Memoir of the South and East Coasts of Arabia ... Part II. (Extracted from the London Geographical Journal.)". The title and subject terms of this image have bee... More

map from "[Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from ...

This image has been taken from scan 000084 from "[Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; and of the combined naval and military operations in China; comprising a complete accou... More

map from "Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and ...

This image has been taken from scan 000335 from volume 02 of "Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837-43. .... More

map from "A System of Geography, for the use of Schools. Illustrated w...

This image has been taken from scan 000070 from "A System of Geography, for the use of Schools. Illustrated with more than fifty cerographic maps, and numerous wood-cut engravings". The title and subject terms ... More

map from "Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and ...

This image has been taken from scan 000269 from volume 02 of "Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837-43. .... More

map from "A System of Geography, for the use of Schools. Illustrated w...

This image has been taken from scan 000021 from "A System of Geography, for the use of Schools. Illustrated with more than fifty cerographic maps, and numerous wood-cut engravings". The title and subject terms ... More

map from "Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and ...

This image has been taken from scan 000287 from volume 01 of "Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837-43. .... More

map from "Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and ...

This image has been taken from scan 000503 from volume 01 of "Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837-43. .... More

map from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the U...

This image has been taken from scan 000187 from volume 19 of "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ... engravin... More

map from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the U...

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dykes_of_the_Irrawaddi_at_Henzada from "The Earth and its Inhabitants....

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Europe from "[Our Earth and its Story: a popular treatise on physical ...

This image has been taken from scan 000335 from volume 02 of "[Our Earth and its Story: a popular treatise on physical geography. Edited by R. Brown. With ... coloured plates and maps, etc.]". The title and sub... More

map from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the U...

This image has been taken from scan 000146 from volume 11 of "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ... engravin... More

Mauritania from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section o...

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map from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the U...

This image has been taken from scan 000037 from volume 04 of "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ... engravin... More

map from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the U...

This image has been taken from scan 000289 from volume 14 of "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ... engravin... More

map from "Voyageurs anciens et modernes, ou Choix des relations de voy...

This image has been taken from scan 000689 from volume 02 of "Voyageurs anciens et modernes, ou Choix des relations de voyages ... depuis le cinquième siècle avant Jésus-Christ jusqu'au dix-neuvième siècle... More

map from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the U...

This image has been taken from scan 000183 from volume 02 of "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ... engravin... More

map from "Arnold's Geographical Handbooks"

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Diamond_Head from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section...

This image has been taken from scan 000599 from volume 14 of "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ... engravin... More

map from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the U...

This image has been taken from scan 000249 from volume 03 of "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ... engravin... More

map from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the U...

This image has been taken from scan 000603 from volume 09 of "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ... engravin... More

map from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the U...

This image has been taken from scan 000558 from volume 16 of "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ... engravin... More

map from "The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the U...

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