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Title: District of Pennsylvania . . .
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3558; APSdigobj3558
Description: (Copied from his larger map.) To the Legislature and the Governor of Pennsylvania this map is respectfully inscribed by Reading Howell.
Creator: Howell, Reading, 1743-1827
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Pennsylvania--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1791 June 13]

Title: London docks. Plan of the River Thames with the proposed docks and cut.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3485; APSdigobj3485
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; River Thames (England)
Date: 1794

Title: To George Washington president of the United States of America this magnetic atlas or variation chart is humbly inscribed by John Churchman.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3477; APSdigobj3477
Description: In: Pam. 538.7:C47e. John Churchman, An explanation of the magnetic atlas or variation chart. Philadelphia: James Johnson: 1790. Front. Churchman was an American who was devoted to his own theories of the variations of the magnetic needle and other things. He had presented his scheme to the Society in 1787 and was given mild encouragement. He founded his belief on the hypothesis of two bodies (besides the moon) revolving round the earth, in small circles parallel to the equator; one near the north pole, and the other was near the south pole; and the needle, being wholly governed by the attraction of these magnetic satellites, will, in whatever part of the world, always rest in the plane of the circle, passing through them and the given place. [The American Museum, Sept. 1789: p. 218]. He persevered in his work and at the 17 September 1790 meeting his "Navigation Chart, or Magnetick Atlas" was presented. It disappeared, but another copy was given by Johann Rodolph Valltravers on 19 May 1797. The Valltravers copy is the one now at the Society. Wheat: 6; Presented by the author to the Society, 17 September 1790, with a description. Another copy presented by Johann R. Valltravers, 19 May 1797.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Magnetic Atlas
Date: 1790

Title: Map of Philadelphia County, constructed by virtue of an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3536; APSdigobj3536
Creator: Melish, John, 1771-1822
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: [1819 April 14]

Title: Geological map of Europe executed under the direction of Joseph Prestwich, F.R.S. by William Topley, F.G.S., and J.G. Goodchild, F.G.S. from the latest surveys.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3484; APSdigobj3484
Description: Printed for Prestwich's Geology, vol. 2, Clarendon Press. See: Sir Joseph Prestwich, Geology chemical, physical, & statigraphical. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1886-1888. 2 vols.
Creator: Topley, William
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Europe
Date: ca. 1860

Title: Battle field of Gettysburg.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3530; APSdigobj3530
Description: Map reduced from one on a scale of 1 in. = 200 ft., deposited in the archives of the Chief of Engineers.
Creator: Warren, G. K. Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Gettysburg; Pennsylvania; Battlefields
Date: [ca. 1865]

Title: Chart of the world, according to Mercator's projection, shewing the latest discoveries of Capt. Cook.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3476; APSdigobj3476
Description: Engraved for Guthrie's new system of geography. Contains manuscript notations for use in Carey's edition. The Transactions (Vol. 6) state that Carey presented the "Materials from which Guthrie's Geography were compiled." This is one of those maps. See: William Guthrie, The general atlas for Carey's edition of his geography improved. Philadelphia: Carey: 1795 [1 May 1795] (912.G98c). Presented by Mathew Carey, 18 October 1805.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Cook, James, 1728-1779
Date: 1785 June 15

Title: The Strait of Magalhaens, commonly called Magellan.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3548; APSdigobj3548
Description: Removed from Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle. . . London: 1839.
Creator: King, Phillip Parker, 1793-1856 Stokes, Pringle Fitzroy, Robert, 1805-1865
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Strait of Magellan (Chile and Argentina); Chile--Maps--Early works to 1800; HMS Beagle
Date: 1839

Title: Chiloe and parts of the adjacent coasts from H.M.S. Beagle.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3549; APSdigobj3549
Description: Removed from Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle . . . London: 1839.
Creator: Walker, J. & C.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Chile--Maps--Early works to 1800; HMS Beagle
Date: 1839

Title: Carte de la Polynesie ou la cinquième partie de la terre [title also in Swedish].
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3551; APSdigobj3551
Description: Inset: Easter and S. Daniel Islands.
Creator: Djurberg, Daniel, 1744-1834
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Polynesia--Maps
Date: 1780

Title: Plan historique de la ville de Lyon et de ses quartiers, assujetti à ses accroissements embellissments, et projets.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3494; APSdigobj3494
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; France; Lyon (France)
Date: 1786

Title: United States of America.
Identifier(s): graphics:5864; APSdigobj3516
Description: Insets: South part of Florida, and, Oregon and Mandan district. Individual insets of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Charleston and New Orleans: environs of Albany, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Trenton, Baltimore and Washington, and Savannah. Also, profiles of the following canals: Erie, Ohio, Morris (N. J.), Union, Chesapeake and Ohio. Also, profile of Schuylkill navigation, Penna., and the Columbia railroad. Presented by Henry Schenck Tanner, 18 September 1829.
Creator: Tanner, H. S. (Henry Schenck), 1786-1858
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; United States
Date: 1829

Title: Carte des parties principales du globe terrestre pour servir à l'histoire des deux premiers siècles depuis la création du monde.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3475; APSdigobj3475
Description: Inset: Supplement à la carte du Paradis Terrestre. "Premier feuille."
Creator: Gravelot, H.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Earth
Date: 1765

Title: A map exhibiting a general view of the roads and inland navigation of Pennsylvania, and part of the adjacent states.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3529; APSdigobj3529
Description: Inset: Perspective view of part of a canal with locks.Mutilated.Wheat: 432
Creator: Adlum, John, 1759-1836 Wallis, John
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Pennsylvania; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800; Roads
Date: [ca. 1791]

Title: Plan of the city of New York.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3528; APSdigobj3528
Description: Presented by Daniel Parker, 4 January 1833.
Creator: J .A.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; New York
Date: [ca. 1830]

Title: Profile with the spirit level, of the due north line from the monument at the source of the River St. Croix to the St. John, surveyed in 1840 & 1841 under the direction of Major J. D. Graham . . . one of the commissioners for surveying and exploring the N. E. boundary of the U.S. U.S. Topographical Engineers.
Identifier(s): graphics:5805; APSdigobj3519
Description: In presenting this document, I beg to call the attention of the Society to the strong contrast, which will appear on a comparison, between the aspect of the country traversed by this due north line as there developed, and that exhibited by the profile of Colonel Bouchette, the British surveyor under the 5th article of the Treaty of Ghent, derived from his surveys of that line and his barometric measurements upon it in the years 1817 & '18.The direction of the meridian line whose profile or vertical section is now offered to the notice of the Society, was obtained from numerous astronomical observations, fully verified, with a transit instrument having a telescope of 43 inches focal length. It will be perceived on reference thereto that the meridian, thus traced, does not meet with any highland or elevation whatever in passing Mars Hill, but on the contrary that it passes the base of that eminence considerably to the eastward, and at a depression nowhere less that 12 feet below the level of the base of the monument which was erected to mark the source of the River St. Croix. . . . It may be well to remark that the base of this monument is surrounded (unless at seasons of extreme drought) by the water constituting the extreme source of that river [Archives. J. D. Graham to APS, 28 March 1844. Minutes. Proc , vol. 4, p. 53. Donation Book].Librarian George Ord was notified 22 June 1844 that W. R. Palmer had received these maps for the Society [Archives. W. R. Palmer to G. Ord, 22 June 1844].See: U.S. Congress, 27th, 3rd session. House of Representatives.
Creator: Graham, J. D. (James Duncan), 1799-1865 Fairfax, Wilson McC.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; United States; Canada; Surveying
Date: [1840/41]

Title: [Chinese maps of Canton and Hong Kong, China. Ca. 1820].
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3506; APSdigobj3506
Description: Presented by Joshua L. Oakford, 8 November 1820.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; China
Date: [ca. 1820]

Title: Plan of the city of Philadelphia and environs.
Identifier(s): graphics:5860; APSdigobj3534
Creator: Hills, John
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
Date: 1808

Title: Betuwe. 19. Ministerie van Oorlog. Topographisch Bureau.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3488; APSdigobj3488
Description: Presented by the Minister of the Interior of the Netherlands.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Netherlands; Betuwe (Netherlands)
Date: ca. 1865

Title: Map of the country nine miles west of the city of Philadelphia, and between Darby Creek & Young's ford on the River Schuylkill. Surveyed by order of Gen. Jonathan Williams . . .of the sub-committee of defence.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3554; APSdigobj3554
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Strickland, William, 1787-1854; Brooke, Robert; Kneass, William, 1780-1840
Date: 1814 September 28