Category Archives: Maps
Item of the Day: Cary’s New and Correct English Atlas (1793)
Full Title: Cary’s New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys. Exhibiting All the Direct & Principal Cross Roads, cities, Towns, and most considerable Villages, Parks, Rivers, Navigable Canals &c. Preceded by a … Continue reading
Filed under 1790's, Atlas, England, Geography, Great Britain, London, Maps, Posted by Caroline Fuchs
Item of the Day: Dampier’s Voyage to New Holland (1699)
Full Title: A Voyage to New Holland, &c. In the Year, 1699. Wherein are described, The Canary-Islands, the Isles of Mayo and St. Jago. The Bay of All Saints, with the Forts and Town of Bahia in Brasil. Cape Salvadore. … Continue reading
Filed under 1690's, Explorations, Geography, Maps, Posted by Matthew Williams, Travel
Item of the Day: Love’s Surveying (1768)
Full Title: GEODASIA: Or, The Art of Surveying and Measuring Land made Easy. Shewing by Plain and Practical Rules, to Survey, Protract, Cast up, Reduce or Divide and Piece of Land whatsoever; with new Tables for the Ease of the … Continue reading
Filed under 1760's, Maps, Mathematics, Posted by Matthew Williams
Item of the Day: Dampier’s New Voyage Round the World (1697)
Full Title: New voyage round the world. Describing particularly, the isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and … Continue reading
Filed under 1690's, Geography, Maps, Posted by Carrie Shanafelt, Travel
Item of the Day: Geographia Antiqua Delineata (1775)
Full Title: Geographia Antiqua Delineata; or, Antient Geography, Exhibited in a Set of Thirty-one Maps: Comprehending all the Several States of Greece, and the Numerous Parts of the Roman Empire, contained in the Greek and Latin Classicks, viz. Homer, Virgil, … Continue reading
Filed under 1770's, Maps, Posted by Caroline Fuchs
Item of the Day: Guthrie’s Geographical Grammar (1786)
Full Title: New system of modern geography: or, a geographical, historical, and commercial grammar; and present state of the several kingdoms of the world. Containing, I. The figures, motions, and distances of the planets, according to the Newtonian system and … Continue reading
Filed under 1780's, Geography, Maps, Posted by Caroline Fuchs, Travel
Item of the Day: Part of London shewing the Improvements propos’d about the Mansion-House, Royal-Exchange, Moor-Fields, &c. (1766)
Full Title: London and Westminster Improved, Illustrated by Plans. To which is prefixed, A Discourse on Publick Magnificence; with Observations on the State of Arts and Artists in this Kingdom, wherein the Study of Polite Arts is recommended as necessary … Continue reading
Filed under 1760's, London, Maps, Posted by Caroline Fuchs
Item of the Day: Gordon’s Geographical Grammar (1719)
Full Title: Geography Anatomizd: or, the Geographical Grammar. Being a Short and Exact Analysis of the Whole Body of Modern Geography, After a New and Curious Method, Comprehending, I. A General View of the Terraqueous Globe. Being a Compendious System … Continue reading
Filed under 1710's, Maps, Posted by Carrie Shanafelt
Item of the Day: Sketch of the Western Countries of Canada (1791)
(Click on map to enlarge.) From: Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader, Describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians; with an Account of the Posts Situated on the River Saint Laurence, Lake Ontario, &c. … Continue reading
Filed under 1790's, American Indians, Language, Maps, Posted by Carrie Shanafelt, Travel
Item of the Day: Map of Pozzoli (1708)
Click the map to enlarge. Hic Jacent Puteolorum Bajarum, Miseni Cumarium, Rudera vix dignoscenda Imperiosa Fortvnæ Levitas, Sacra Profanis impic miscens, Delubra Numinum. Principumque Domas, Statuas, Astria, Sepulchra, Ciros Arcus Theatra Thermas Lucos, Vireta, Regina quondam Italiæ, Decus Deliciasque Nefande … Continue reading
Filed under 1700's, Maps, Posted by Carrie Shanafelt
