North America

John Speed, England's best-known mapmaker of the Stuart period, died in 1629, but this map of New England and New York did not reach print until 1676, engraved by Francis...

Aaron Arrowsmith, the London hydrographer who by 1804 ran one of Britain's most exacting map businesses from Soho Square, engraved this map of North Carolina for distribution in the United...

Mathew Carey, the Dublin-born Philadelphia publisher who founded America's first major cartographic publishing house, issued this map of North Carolina in 1814 as part of ongoing revisions to his "American...

Thomas Kitchin, the London engraver who by the 1760s held the title of Hydrographer to the King and had already engraved John Mitchell's landmark 1755 map of North America, produced...

Alvin Jewett Johnson and his partner Benjamin P. Ward published this map of Nebraska, Dakota, Montana, and Kansas in New York in 1864, part of the Johnson's New Illustrated Family...

Charles Morse issued this map of Ohio in 1856 as part of his General Atlas of the World, a work built largely on updated plates from the earlier Morse &...

This map of Ohio was issued in Philadelphia in 1814, most likely as part of the American Atlas series published by Mathew Carey, the Dublin-born publisher whose Philadelphia firm produced...

Julius Bien, the German-born New York lithographer whose firm became one of the most technically accomplished in 19th-century America, engraved this five-color map of Oklahoma and Indian Territory for the...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr., who inherited his father's Philadelphia map-publishing firm in 1860 and ran it through the 1890s, issued this double-sided sheet pairing Indian Territory with Colorado on its...

Adam and Charles Black, the Edinburgh firm that ranked among 19th-century Britain's leading publishers of atlases and travel guides, issued this map of the Pacific States in 1869, covering California,...

George F. Cram, who took sole control of the Evanston, Illinois atlas firm he had founded with his uncle Rufus Blanchard in 1867, issued this large-format map of Oklahoma and...

George F. Cram, sole proprietor of the Evanston, Illinois atlas firm since 1869 and publisher of the long-running Unrivaled Atlas of the World, issued this map of Oregon from Chicago...

Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., the Philadelphia firm that grew out of the school-publishing trade before expanding into general cartography, issued this map of California and the territories of Oregon, Washington,...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. of Philadelphia published this map of Oregon, Washington, and the surrounding Rocky Mountain frontier in 1860, the same year he took over his father's atlas business...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. of Philadelphia issued this rare variant map of Oregon, Washington, and the newly formed Idaho Territory in 1863, part of the same New General Atlas he...

Charles DeSilver of Philadelphia published this sweeping map of California and the territories of Oregon, Washington, Utah, and New Mexico in 1858, the same firm whose map plates and business...

David Hugh Burr of New York published this map of Pennsylvania in 1836, part of the New York State Post Office topographer's larger project of large-format state maps issued individually...

Anthony Finley of Philadelphia published this map of Pennsylvania in 1824, included in his New General Atlas Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, a bestseller that ran through annual editions...

Mathew Carey of Philadelphia published this map of Rhode Island in 1814 for his American Atlas, the pioneering work that in 1795 became the first folio atlas ever issued in...

Anthony Finley of Philadelphia issued this map of South Carolina in 1831, part of the later print run of his New General Atlas Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, the...

Jeremiah Greenleaf of Brattleboro, Vermont published this map of North and South Carolina in 1842 for his New Universal Atlas, a work built directly on plates he had acquired around...

Joseph Hutchins Colton of New York published this map of South Carolina in 1860, part of Colton's General Atlas, the single-volume successor to his earlier two-volume Atlas of the World...

Anthony Finley of Philadelphia issued this map of Tennessee in 1823, one of the earliest widely obtainable separately atlas maps of the state and a forerunner of the bestselling New...

Henry Schenck Tanner of Philadelphia issued this map of Kentucky, Tennessee, and part of Illinois in 1823 for his monumental American Atlas, a work without question regarded as the finest...

Charles W. Morse of New York published this map of California, with a large inset of Utah and part of New Mexico, in his General Atlas of the World, issued...

O. W. Gray of Philadelphia issued this map of Utah Territory in 1886 for Gray's National Atlas, one of the most commercially successful American atlases of the 1870s and 1880s...

J. H. Colton & Co. of New York issued this map of the Territories of New Mexico and Utah in 1859, a cornerstone sheet regarded as the first separately published...

J. H. Colton of New York published this map of Vermont in 1860, from a scarce edition bearing the imprint of Johnson and Browning, the two Vermont-born partners who would...

Jeremiah Greenleaf of New York published this striking full-color map of Virginia in 1842, printed from plates he had acquired around 1840 from David H. Burr, whose Universal Atlas, first...

Sidney E. Morse of New York published this map of Virginia in 1856 for his General Atlas of the World, a scarce work whose maps rarely appear on the market,...

Alvin Jewett Johnson of New York published this map of Georgetown and the City of Washington in 1862, part of his New Illustrated Family Atlas, the firm that grew directly...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. of Philadelphia issued this plan of the City of Washington in 1863, part of the New General Atlas he had launched in 1860 after purchasing his...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. of Philadelphia issued this county map of Michigan and Wisconsin in 1860, the first state of the plate and part of the New General Atlas he...

George F. Cram of Chicago published this map of the Territory turned State of Wyoming in 1891, a year after Wyoming achieved statehood, for his celebrated Unrivaled Atlas of the...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell of Philadelphia published this map of the State of Texas in 1852, issued in his enduringly popular School and Family Geography, one of the works that helped...

H. H. Lloyd of Chicago published this map of Texas in 1872, a scarce sheet from a publisher whose surviving cartographic output is limited to only a handful of known...

J. H. Young drew this map of Texas for Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company of Philadelphia in 1854, the firm behind Tanner's New Universal Atlas and, by most assessments, the most...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. of Philadelphia issued this finely detailed map of Texas in 1865 as plate XIII in his New Reference Atlas, part of the New General Atlas series...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. of Philadelphia issued this County Map of Texas in 1864, part of the New General Atlas he had published since taking over his father's business from...

S. S. Cornell published this paired map of California and Texas in 1856, an interesting single-sheet combination joining the country's two fastest-growing frontier states, with Oregon included as a smaller...

Adam and Charles Black of Edinburgh published this map of Texas and part of New Mexico in 1876, part of the firm's General Atlas, one of the leading atlas and...

J. H. Colton of New York issued this map of Texas in 1855 as part of the first edition of his General Atlas, and it is the only edition of...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. of Philadelphia issued this map of Texas in 1865 as plate XIII in his New Reference Atlas, drawn from the latest government surveys and boundary adjustments...

Charles W. Morse ran his cerographic printing house from New York, and in 1856 his General Atlas of the World, published through Appleton & Company, carried this map of California...

Gerald A. Eddy, a Los Angeles-based commercial cartographer known for his relief maps and promotional work for western transportation companies, produced this map of the Pacific Electric Railway and Motor...

C. June Barton and R. Greenway Frager produced this whimsical pictorial map of Venice Beach, California, in 1979 to mark the neighborhood's 75th anniversary, running from its 1905 founding by...

Joseph Hutchins Colton, one of the most prolific American mapmakers of the nineteenth century, issued this map of California with its San Francisco inset in 1855 as part of his...

Britton & Rey, the San Francisco lithographic house founded in 1852 by Joseph Britton and Jacques Joseph Rey, issued this rare third and final edition of George Henry Goddard's foundational...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. issued this first state of his County Map of California in 1860, the same year he inherited his father's Philadelphia publishing house and released the New...

H.H. Lloyd issued this striking map of California and Nevada in 1871, a work that survives today largely because it appeared as a supplement bound into county and state atlases...