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Title: Chart showing the discoveries tracks and surveys of the Arctic Exploring Expedition of 1860 and 1861. I. I. Hayes, M.D., commanding.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3481; APSdigobj3481
Creator: Schott, Charles A. (Charles Anthony), 1826-1901
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Arctic regions
Date: 1865

Title: The United States of America with the British possessions of Canada, Nova Scotia, & of Newfoundland, divided with the French; and the Spanish territories of Louisiana and Florida according to the preliminary articles of peace signed at Versailles the 20th of Jan[uar]y 1783.
Identifier(s): graphics:5795; APSdigobj3511
Description: Originally in T. Jefferys, The American atlas. London: Sayer and Bennett: 1782.Loaned to the U.S. Government in 1828 for use during the Northeast Boundary dispute with Great Britain. For story, see No. 453.
Creator: Jeffery, T.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; North America; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: 1783 February 9

Title: The Arctic regions comprising the most recent explorations of Robert E. Peary, Fridtjov Nansen, and F. Jackson, by Prof. Angelo Heilprin.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3482; APSdigobj3482
Creator: Heilprin, Angelo, 1853-1907
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Arctic regions
Date: 1897

Title: Ilha de Leão com asilhetas e fortes adjacentes ciudade e porto de Cadix com seus baixos &c. D. Vicente Tofino.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3500; APSdigobj3500
Creator: Tofino, Vincente
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps
Date: [ca. 1789]

Title: This new map of the city of Philadelphia for the use of fire men and others is most respectfully dedicated to the citizens and members of the engine & hose companies, by . . . John A. Paxton.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3535; APSdigobj3535
Description: Contains: a listing of engine & hose houses; a vignette of the Fair Mount Water Works; an extension of the northwestern end of the map of the city to include Fair Mount; and cut away diagrams of two fire plugs.
Creator: Strickland, W.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps; Fire stations
Date: [ca. 1816]

Title: The VII United Provinces. Corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society at London, and ye Royal Academy at Paris.Humbly dedicated to Elihu Yale Esq. 1709.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3487; APSdigobj3487
Creator: Senex, Iohn, d. 1740
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Netherlands
Date: 1709

Title: Map of eastern Kentucky, shewing the western outcrop of its coal field as determined by the surveys of 1858 and 1859.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3562; APSdigobj3562
Creator: Lesley, Joseph Downes, D. Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Kentucky--Maps
Date: [1859]

Title: The seat of war of the revolution in the southern states; shewing the principal movements of the hostile armies.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3542; APSdigobj3542
Description: See: William Johnson, Sketches of the life and correspondence of Major General Greene. Charleston: Miller:1822.
Creator: Tanner, H. S. (Henry Schenck), 1786-1858
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Military campaigns
Date: [1822]

Title: A plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, with part of the River Mississippi &c.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3544; APSdigobj3544
Description: See: A topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, by Thos. Hutchins. London: J. Almon: 1778.
Creator: Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Mississippi River; Illinois; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1778]

Title: Plan of the city of Philadelphia, compiled from actual surveys by F. Drayton, 1824.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3561; APSdigobj3561
Creator: Drayton, F.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: 1824

Title: Chart of the lights on the lake coast of the United States.
Identifier(s): graphics:5865; APSdigobj3543
Creator: Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Great Lakes
Date: 1861

Title: Carte de l'isle d'Elbe, dressée d'après les opérations trigonométriques extraites du traité de géodésie de Mr. Puissant.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3503; APSdigobj3503
Description: Inset: Map of Porto-Ferrajo.
Creator: Picquet, Charles
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Italy
Date: 1814

Title: Ground plan [of the] Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3547; APSdigobj3547
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Exhibitions; Saint Louis
Date: 1904

Title: General-Karte der sichtbaren Seite der Mondoberflaeche zugleich als übersichts-Blatt zur grössern Mondkarte von Wilh. Beer und Joh. Heinr.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3474; APSdigobj3474
Description: Presented by A. D. Bache, 6 December 1839.
Creator: Beer, Wilhelm, 1797-1850
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Moon
Date: 1837

Title: A new and authentic map of the world embracing all the recent discoveries, and exhibiting particularly the nautical researches of the most distinguished circumnavigators from the latest & best authorities with numerous corrections & additions, by H. S. Tanner, 1831.
Identifier(s): graphics:5760; APSdigobj3479
Description: Contains also: comparative lengths of the principal canals in the world, projected on a scale of 34 miles to an inch; statistics for North America, South America, West Indies; Summary of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe statistics; heights of mountains; British possessions in Africa, America, Asia, Oceania; possessions of European powers in Asia, Oceania, Africa, America; vertical sections of North America, projected on uniform scales. Contains also: comparative lengths of the principal canals in the world, projected on a scale of 34 miles to an inch; statistics for North America, South America, West Indies; Summary of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe statistics; heights of mountains; British possessions in Africa, America, Asia, Oceania; possessions of European powers in Asia, Oceania, Africa, America; vertical sections of North America, projected on uniform scales. Provenance: Presented by Henry Schenck Tanner, 15 April 1831.
Creator: Tanner, H. S. (Henry Schenck), 1786-1858
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Earth
Date: 1831

Title: Portraiture of the city of Philadelphia in the province of Pennsylvania in America.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3559; APSdigobj3559
Description: Inset: Peninsula between Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Presented by General Parker from the library of Zaccheus Collins, 1831.
Creator: Holme, Thomas, 1624-1695
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: [1683]

Title: A new map of Ireland divided into its provinces, counties and baronies, wherein are distinguished the bishopricks, borroughs, barracks, bogs, passes, bridges &c. with the principal roads, and the common reputed miles. According to the newest and most exact observations.
Identifier(s): graphics:5766; APSdigobj3486
Description: Insets: maps of the British Isles; Isle of St. Patrick's purgatory; Waterford; Gyants Cawsway; Gallway; harbour of Kinsale; Limrick; Dublin; and, Cork. Also, a catalogue of ye towns & places where barracks are erected . . .
Creator: Moll, Herman, d. 1732
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Ireland
Date: 1714

Title: Plan of Boston in New England with its environs, including Milton, Dorchester, Roxbury, Brookline, Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown, parts of Malden and Chelsea.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3523; APSdigobj3523
Description: Presented by Edward Hudson, 5 January 1827.
Creator: Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Boston; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1777 June 2]

Title: Survey across the Isthmus of Cape Cod state of Massachusetts and town of Sandwich of a proposed canal between Buzzard's and Barnstable bays. 1825.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3521; APSdigobj3521
Description: Presented by General Daniel Parker, 1 January 1833.
Creator: Perrault Searle, Frederick Thompson, W. B. (William Beverhout), 1804 or 5-1867 Farley, John
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Massachusetts; Cape Cod (Mass.); Canals; Canal construction
Date: 1825

Title: Map of Philadelphia and parts adjacent.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3560; APSdigobj3560
Description: See: Gentleman's Magazine, 1777, vol. 47, opp. p. 573, for American edition of map.Wheat: 455
Creator: Scull, Nicholas, 1686?-1761? Heap, George, fl. 1715-1760
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: [1777]