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| Date: | 1710 |
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| Description: | A seminal and fairly accurate map of the Great Lakes Region up to Baffin's Bay in Northern Canada. This is possibly the first printed map to locate Detroit... |
| Date: | 1746 |
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| Description: | Map of North America from the southern portion of James Bay to Florida. It shows the colonies, cities, Native American land, and topological and geographic... |
| Date: | 1791 |
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| Description: | An English and updated version of d'Anville's 1746 map "Amérique Septentrionale Publiée sous les Auspices de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans Prémier Prince du... |
| Date: | 1696 |
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| Description: | This sea chart and topographical map depicts the north east coast of Canada and North America, focusing on the Hudson Bay and Great Lakes regions. It shows... |
| Date: | 1698 |
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| Description: | A sea chart of Hudson's Bay, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic. This map shows rhumb lines extending from various points including two compass roses. Coas... |
| Date: | 1777 |
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| Description: | This detailed map of the American colonies shows cities, villages, roads, mountains, lakes, rivers, swamps, counties, state boundaries, and Native American... |
| Date: | 1683 |
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| Description: | Map of the north east coast of North America showing islands, regions, Native American land, bays, and a few European settlements. The Great Lakes appear i... |
| Date: | 1772 |
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| Description: | Map of the north west portion of America and Canada, as well as a small section of eastern Russia. Lakes, rivers, Native American land and the occasional ... |
| Date: | 1780 |
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| Description: | Map of North America from Lake Ontario through the Great Plains, and James Bay to Illinois. It shows rivers, lakes, and mountains in great detail, and labe... |
| Date: | 1775 |
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| Description: | Map of Boston and surrounding regions, from Massachusetts Bay to the Connecticut River, and including part of southern New Hampshire. It shows the colonies... |
| Date: | 1795 |
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| Description: | Map of New Jersey showing counties, cities, towns, mills, landowners, roads, mountains, bays, rivers, and lakes. A few annotations dot the map, describing... |
| Date: | 1795 |
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| Description: | Map of Delaware showing counties, cities, roads, swamps, lakes, and rivers. Numerous features within the Delaware Bay include banks, shoals, and oyster be... |
| Date: | 1755 |
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| Description: | Map of Virginia and parts of Maryland, North Carolina, and New Jersey. It shows borders, boundary lines, some Native American land, counties, cities, towns... |
| Date: | 1776 |
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| Description: | Map of Virginia and parts of Maryland and Delaware (written "De La War"). It shows borders, counties, cities, towns, plantations (marked by landowners name... |
| Date: | 1781 |
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| Description: | Map of the Southeastern part of the British Colonies in North America, Gulf Coast and Caribbean. It illustrates the of the Spanish and English fleets, part... |
| Date: | 1781 |
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| Description: | Map of the British territory of West Florida, extending from the Mississippi River to the Apalachicola River. It shows the borders, cities, towns, forts, h... |
| Date: | 1761 |
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| Description: | Map covering southern Louisiana from Lake Ponchetrain to the Golf of Mexico and from Woods Bay in the west to the islands just east of Bay St. Louis. It sh... |
| Date: | 1759 |
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| Description: | Map of New Orleans at the start of the French & Indian War, including two inset maps entitled "The Course of the Mississipi River from Bayagoulas to the Se... |
| Date: | 1769 |
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| Description: | Map of New Orleans at the start of the French & Indian War, including two inset maps of the Mississippi River Delta and Fort la Balise. It shows streets, r... |
| Date: | 1675 |
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| Description: | Three maps found within John Speed's atlas A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World along with the corresponding text. The first map shows V... |
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