Southern States Maps

This detailed regional map of the Greater Antilles and Florida, titled Neueste Karte der Grossen Antillen, was published in 1844 in Hildburghausen by the German publisher Joseph Meyer, best known...

Fielding Lucas Jr. of Baltimore published this map of Cuba, the Bahamas and the Florida Keys in 1823 as part of his ambitious New & Elegant General Atlas, a work...

This working nautical chart of Cuba, the Straits of Bahama and the Windward Passage was published in London in 1746 by the firm of Mount & Page, longtime publishers of...

This detailed early American map of Cuba, the Bahamas and the Florida Keys was published in 1823 by the Baltimore cartographer Fielding Lucas Jr., as part of his New &...

This decorative regional map of Texas, California and the Southwest was published in London around 1849 by John Tallis, a Midlands-born map publisher who had relocated to the capital in...

This map of Mexico, Texas and the Southwest was engraved in London around 1840 by Joshua Archer, a Devon-born printer and engraver who worked from premises in the capital producing...

This second edition of John Tallis's decorative map of Texas, California and Mexico adds a gold-washing vignette not present on the first printing, a direct response to the explosive global...

John Tallis, celebrated as the last of the great decorative English mapmakers, published this map of Texas, California and Mexico from his London workshop around 1851, giving the sheet the...

Ludwig Ewald and the engraver Georg Leonhart Bauerkeller produced this map of Mexico and Texas for their Handatlas der Allgemeinen Erdkunde, a general geographic reference atlas published from Darmstadt and...

Nicolas de Fer, who took over his father's Paris map-selling business as a young man and built it into one of France's most prolific cartographic workshops, issued this map of...

Henri Abraham Chatelain engraved this map of New France for the first edition of his Atlas Historique, published by L'Honore & Chatelain of Amsterdam across 1719 and 1720 with descriptive...

Karl Squires, a civil engineer operating out of the Halcyon Arcade in downtown Miami, compiled and published this detailed folding street map of Greater Miami in 1934, capturing the city...

MacDonald Printing Co. of Tampa published this detailed mid-century map of the city in 1947, centered on Hillsborough Bay but extending to cover much of the surrounding Tampa Bay area...

Reuben W. Ford, a surveyor whose work is regarded as the most definitive record of Austin, Texas, from the second half of the nineteenth century, produced this revised map of...

Jacques Nicolas Bellin, appointed Hydrographer to the French Navy at just eighteen and later the first Ingenieur de la Marine of France's Hydrographic Office, produced this important early plan of...

James Yeager engraved this plan of the Siege of Charleston for John Marshall's Atlas to Marshall's Life of Washington, published in Philadelphia in 1832, decades after the Revolutionary War battle...

Joseph Hutchins Colton, whose New York firm was among the most prolific American mapmaking houses of the mid-nineteenth century, issued this pairing of two city plans on a single sheet...

G.M. Hopkins, a Philadelphia publisher known for plat maps and atlases spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, issued this detailed hand-colored plan of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1889. The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...