North America

Mathew Carey published this map of Kentucky from Philadelphia in 1814, updating an earlier state of the map that had shown only the undivided Northwestern Territory to the north —...

O.W. Gray of Philadelphia published this map of Louisiana in 1875 as part of Gray's National Atlas, one of the most commercially successful American atlases of the 1870s and among...

Charles Morse published this map of Louisiana from New York in 1856, dividing the state by parish and by the township survey grid in the same period Gray, Colton, and...

Rand McNally & Company published this highly detailed map of Louisiana from Chicago in 1889, by which point the firm, founded in 1856 as a Chicago print shop for railway...

Joseph Hutchins Colton published this map of Louisiana from New York in 1855, the same year his firm issued its first full atlas, Colton's Atlas of the World, after two...

Joseph Meyer's Bibliographisches Institut published this map of Louisiana from Hildburghausen in 1845, closely based on Tanner's American work of the early 1840s and issued as part of the same...

David Hugh Burr published this map of Louisiana from Brattleboro, Vermont in 1836, drawing on his position as official topographer for the U.S. Post Office through the 1830s, a role...

Thomas Sydenham Hardee, a New Orleans civil engineer, engraved and published this topographical map of Louisiana around 1879 for an unusual purpose: illustrating Dr. Joseph Jones' Medical and Surgical Memoirs,...

Alvin Jewett Johnson and Ross C. Browning published this map of Maine from New York in 1861 for their New Illustrated Family Atlas, at the very outset of the Civil...

This map of Virginia and Maryland was engraved by Francis Lamb and first published in 1676, in the enlarged edition of John Speed's atlas issued in London by Thomas Bassett...

Thomas Gamaliel Bradford published this map of Maryland from Boston in 1838, part of his Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the United States and Adjacent Countries, a work...

Alvin Jewett Johnson published this map of Delaware and Maryland from New York City in 1862 under the "Johnson & Ward" imprint, the partnership formed after Ross Browning sold his...

Homann Heirs of Nuremberg published this map of eastern Virginia, Maryland, and all of Delaware in 1745, one of four regional maps of North America the firm issued together on...

Johann Baptist Homann of Nuremberg published this map of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina around 1720, one of the best-known separately issued sheets from the publishing house he had founded in...

Engraved by Thomas Kitchin for the August 1757 issue of the London Magazine, this map of Maryland, the Delaware counties and the southern part of New Jersey was drawn directly...

Emanuel Bowen produced this detailed map of Virginia and Maryland for his Complete System of Geography, this example identifiable as the first state of the plate by the number "No....

Johann Baptist Homann's Nuremberg workshop issued this later state of its map of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina around 1730, identifiable by the addition of "Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Majest." to...

John Speed's map of Virginia and Maryland was engraved by Francis Lamb and first appeared in the 1676 enlarged edition of Speed's atlas, published in London by Thomas Bassett and...

Joseph Hutchins Colton's map of Massachusetts and Rhode Island was reissued in New York around 1859 during the short-lived partnership of Johnson & Browning, who had acquired Colton's steel plates...

John Payne's map of Massachusetts, published in New York in 1799, ranks among the earliest obtainable printed maps of the state, appearing in the same brief window as John Reid's...

David Hugh Burr published this map of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts in New York in 1836, part of an atlas widely regarded as the most elegant American commercially published...

Joseph Meyer published this finely engraved map of Michigan in 1845 from his firm's headquarters in Hildburghausen, basing its geography on the American surveys of Henry Schenck Tanner from earlier...

Henry Schenck Tanner engraved this map of Michigan in 1836, issuing it as plate 25 in the first bound edition of his celebrated New Universal Atlas, one of the defining...

Thomas Gamaliel Bradford issued this map of Michigan in 1838, engraved by G.W. Boynton for his An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the United States and the Adjacent...

This detailed map of Wisconsin and large portions of Michigan was issued around 1850 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, an English organization active from the 1830s...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. published this county map of Michigan and Wisconsin in Philadelphia in 1867, continuing the family publishing firm his father had built into one of America's most...

Berlandi & Bott published this map of Minnesota in St. Paul in 1884 on behalf of the state's own Board of Immigration, a government body created specifically to promote settlement...

Anthony Finley of Philadelphia published this map of Mississippi around 1824, engraved by James Hamilton Young and George Delleker for his A New General Atlas, an atlas that first appeared...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell published this detailed map of Mississippi in Philadelphia in 1846, part of the prolific atlas business he had built after relocating to the city around 1830, disillusioned...

Henry Schenck Tanner engraved this map of Missouri in 1839 for his New Universal Atlas, a more compact and accessible successor to his earlier monumental New American Atlas that had...

Henry Schenck Tanner issued this map of Missouri in Philadelphia within the 1836 edition of his New Universal Atlas, conceived as a more compact and accessible successor to his monumental...

Walter Ware De Lacy, a civil engineer and West Point graduate, produced this map of Montana Territory in 1865, commissioned by the territorial legislature at its very first meeting following...

H.H. Lloyd & Co. issued this territorial map of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming around 1871-1872, published by Warner & Higgins in Chicago and printed by Frederick Bourquin in Philadelphia as...

H.H. Lloyd issued this county map of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming on a distinctive horizontal format in 1872, the third and most fully updated state of a plate that had...

This anonymously published county map of Montana and Wyoming, issued around 1874, is a genuinely scarce sheet, the first example of its particular plate seen in recent memory even among...

The General Land Office published this map of Montana Territory in 1887, drawing on the most current government surveys available at the time to record the territory's rapidly expanding grid...

Alvin Jewett Johnson published this map of Nebraska, Dakota, Idaho and Montana in New York in 1865, notable above all for containing one of the very earliest appearances of Wyoming...

Charles Desilver published this map of the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains in Philadelphia in 1857, a sheet remarkable for being the first atlas map published...

H.H. Lloyd's map of Nevada and California, published in Chicago by Warner & Higgins in 1870, is the rare first edition of what would become part of Lloyd's Atlas of...

Rand McNally & Company published this large-format map of Nevada in 1892 as part of its Business Atlas, one of the most widely circulated commercial reference atlases in the country...

Rand McNally & Company issued this large-format map of Nevada in 1888 as part of its Business Atlas, four years before the firm's better-known 1892 edition of the same sheet....

George F. Cram published this map of Nevada in Chicago in 1892, printed using the cerographic wax-engraving process the Morse family had invented back in the 1830s and which, by...

H.H. Lloyd's county map of Nevada and California appeared in the early 1870s within atlases published by Warner & Beers, part of the same Atlas of the United States series...

David Hugh Burr published this map of Vermont and New Hampshire in New York in 1836, part of the same celebrated atlas whose wash-colored engraving style made Burr's work widely...

Anthony Finley published this map of New Hampshire in Philadelphia in 1829, part of the run of state maps he issued to accompany his bestselling A New General Atlas, first...

Joseph Hutchins Colton published this map of New Hampshire in New York in 1859, part of the atlas output that had, by mid-century, made his firm one of the most...

Charles Morse published this map of New Jersey in New York in 1856 as part of his General Atlas of the World, an updated and colored successor to the earlier...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. published this map of Arizona and New Mexico in Philadelphia in 1867, continuing the family publishing business his father had built since relocating to the city...

H.H. Lloyd published this county map of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico around 1872, distributed, like the firm's other territorial sheets, only as a supplement bound into Warner &...

Whiteman, Hicks & Whiteman lithographed this map of New Mexico Territory in London around 1873, working not from an established atlas series but as an independently issued sheet tied to...