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Virginia. Discovered and described by Captain John Smith, Grauen by William Hole.
Leading cartographic scholar Philip Burden labeled Smith’s work, “One of the most important printed maps of America ever produced.” In 1608, the second year of the colony, Smith led an expedition to reconnoiter the interior and to find food. For…
The Jerusalem Ledger
Religious newspaper about the events of Jesus Christ.
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.
Late 19th century Holy Bible containing numerous religous self-study program sheets.
The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments
Early 19th century KJV Holy Bible with the Apocrypha
The Holy Bible : containing the Authorized and Revised Versions of the Old and New Testaments arranged in parallel columns
An ornate Holy Bible from the late 19th century containing hand-painted depictions of Biblical stories.
Old Downtown Columbus Drawings
Drawings of old downtown Columbus from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Newspaper
Noua Terrae-Mariae Tabula, or Lord Baltimore’s Map, 1635. Second edition by John Ogilby, 1671.
Always known as Lord Baltimore’s map, this is the first depiction of Maryland as a separate colony. Two “adventurers” among the first colonizers, Jerome Hawley and John Lewger, probably drew the map. They obviously used John Smith’s map; the…
New Map of Georgia, Amsterdam, for I. F. Bernard, 1737.
The first printed map of colonial Georgia, it appeared in two states or versions. The map shown above is a contemporary reproduction and enlargement of the second state. Benjamin Martyn as secretary to the Trustees of Georgia published two pamphlets…
New England, by Captain John Smith. 1616. From The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, 1624.
The bold and arrogant John Smith, who emblazoned his portrait on his map, had no intention of retiring from his life of adventure after leaving Jamestown. He envisioned creating his own colony to the north of Virginia, a more realistic, better…
Mill Map
Paper map detailing Muscogee Mills and Eagle and Phenix Mills.
Mill Map
Paper map detailing Columbus Iron Works, Seaboard Air Line Railway, Sol Leob Co., and Empire Mills Company.
Floridae Americae Provinciae Recens & exactissima descriptio Auctorè Iacobo le Moÿne cui cognomen de Morgues, Qui Laudõnierum, Altera Gallorum in eam Prouincian Nauigatione comitat . . . in Part II of Theodore de Bry’s Grands Voyages, 1591.
Jacques Le Moyne’s map and forty-two of his illustrations of Timucua Indian life in Florida appeared in De Bry’s work. The experiences of le Moyne paralleled and then intersected with that of John White. In 1564 Le Moyne sailed as an…
Florida, et Regiones Vicinae, ca. 1630. Delineated by Hessel Gerritsz and published by Joannes de Laet in Novus Orbis, 1633 and L’Historie de Nouveau Monde, 1635 and various other works.
The director of the Dutch West Indies Company, Johannes de Laet, and the company’s chief cartographer, Hessel Gerritsz, collaborated in producing and publishing early maps of the New World. This depiction of the southeastern region of North America…
Downtown Columbus
Drawings of old downtown Columbus from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Newspaper
Downtown Columbus
Drawings of old downtown Columbus from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Newspaper.
Downtown Columbus
Drawings of old downtown Columbus from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Newspaper.
Carolina by Herman Moll, geographer. 1729.
Herman Moll’s 1729 map of Carolina, which is known as the Azilia Map, contains only a little more information about this region than what appeared on his 1720 “A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France . . . .” Both identified the…
Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis inuenta, sumtibus Dn. Walter Raleigh, Equestris ordinis Viri Anno Dni. MDLXXXV regni Vero Sereniss: nostrae Reginae Elizabethae XXVII
This was the first separate map of Virginia. Drawn by John White, it appeared in Thomas Harriot’s A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia in Vol. 1 of Theodore de Bry’s Great Voyages in 1590. As an explorer, surveyor, cartographer,…
A New and Accurate Map Of North America, drawn from the famous Mr. D’Anville with improvements from the best English maps; and engraved by R. W. Seale; Also the new divisions according to the late Treaty of Peace by Peter Bell geor. Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard. London. Published January 1771.
As an active London engraver and map publisher in that period, Seale’s numerous works depicted various areas of the British empire, other countries, and the world. Many cartographers who depicted North America in the second half of the 18th century…