Early American Maritime History & Culture
Fall 2003

 

Chart Room: Historical Maps and Nautical Charts

Region Vintage Title/Type Cartographer Source
West Italian Coast 1300 Carte Pisane
The World 1440s Pre-Columbian Mappimundo
The Americas 1507 The Americas Waldesmuller
The World 1510 Orbis Typus Universalis Martin Waldesmuller
Atlantic World 1511 Portolan Atlas di Maggiolo
The World 1512 Florentine Goldsmith Georgio Calapodu
The World 1520 Magellan's Track Battista Agneses
East Coast Americas 1524 [No opening to East] Hermano Cortes
The World 1527 With "Verrazano Sea" Gerolamo da Verrazano
East Coast NAmerica 1527 Detail of Carolinas Gerolamo da Verrazano
The World 1540 Typus Orbis Universalis Sebastian Munster
Globe 1542 With "Verrazano Sea" Euphrosyne Ulipius
The World 1550 Cosmographia Peter Apian
The World 1569 "Mercator Projection" Gerard Mercator
Outer Banks, NC 1590 DeBry, Robert White
NE North America 1610
NY & New England 1647 Jansson Prototype Jans
Chesapeake Virginia 1647 Robert Dudley
New England 1640s John Foster (1677)
Long Island 1683 Robartte Ryder
New York Harbor 1734
New York Harbor 1776 American Nautilus Des Barres
Chesapeake & Delaware Bays 1840s
Whaling Track 1840s Henry W. Morgan
The World 1851 Whaling Grounds Matthew F. Maury
Montauk to NYC 1896 Nautical Chart
Whale Gallery Starbuck
NOAA http://historicals.ncd.noaa.gov/historicals/histmap.asp