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Title: Plan of the nitre cave described by Dr. Samuel Brown
Identifier(s): graphics:12; APSimg7689
Description: The cartouche reads: "A Survey of the Great Salt Petre Cave on Crooked Creek Madison County, Ky. by John James Dufour. 1805." See Samuel Brown, Map of the nitre cave of Kentucky, 1805 Feb. 7. Natural History
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Natural history; Maps; Caves
Date: 1805

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: 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: Map of the Mississippi River from its source to the mouth of the Missouri: laid down from the notes of Lieut. Z. M. Pike, by Anthony Nav. Reduced, and corrected by the astronomical observations of Mr. Thompson at its source: and of Capt. M. Lewis, where it receives the waters of the Missouri.
Identifier(s): graphics:5831; local: APSdigobj3545
Description: See: Zebulon M. Pike's Account of a voyage up the Mississippi River. Washington: 1807, and Account of expeditions to the source of the Mississippi. Philadelphia: 1810. Presented by Thomas Jefferson, 1807. Realms of Gold identifier: 1330, 633: [1807]: K584mrm Large
Subject: Maps; Mississippi River
Date: [1807]

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: North America and the West Indies, with the opposite coasts of Europe and Africa.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3509; APSdigobj3509
Description: Shows routes of early navigators.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; North America; Navigation
Date: 1787 November 10

Title: Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi dressée sur un grand nombre de mémoires, entrau tres [sic] sur ceux de M. de le Maire, par Guillaume de l'lsle de l'Académie R[oya]le des Sciences.
Identifier(s): graphics:5840; local: APSdigobj3546
Description: Presented by Peter S. Du Ponceau, 15 January 1841. Realms of Gold identifier: 1374, 636: [ca. 1720]: D372Lt Small
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726et al
Subject: Maps; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800; United States
Date: [ca. 1720]

Title: A New Chart of the Parts where a North West Passage was Sought in the Years 1746 and 1747.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3567; APSdigobj3567
Creator: Ellis, Henry, 1721-1806
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Hudson Bay--Maps--Early works to 1800; Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1748

Title: A map of the United States, exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections & distances of the post-offices stage roads, counties, ports of entry and delivery for foreign vessels, and the principal rivers, [1796]
Identifier(s): graphics:5804; local: APSdigobj3513
Description: Inset: Progress of the mail on the main line. Wheat: 128 Realms of Gold identifier: 555, 635: [1796]: B721usp Large
Creator: Bradley, Abraham, 1767-1838et al
Subject: Maps; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800; Postal service
Date: [1796]

Title: Nuova pianta dell'inclita città di Venezia recolata l'anno 1787.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3580; APSdigobj3580
Description: Beneath the map is the key. Presented by William Short, 5 November 1824.
Creator: Ughi, Ludovico
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Venice (Italy)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1787]

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: A map of the British and French dominions in North America with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements.
Identifier(s): graphics:10826; Realms of Gold identifier: 452
Description: Inset: A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador.
Subject: United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.; Maps
Date: [1757]

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: [Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean. 1792].
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3565; APSdigobj3565
Description: See: Jonathan Williams, Jr., "Memoir on the use of the thermometer in discovering banks, soundings, &c," American Philosophical Society, Transactions, vol. 3, copy 1, opposite p. 84. One copy presented by Jonathan Williams, Jr., 19 November 1799.Wheat: 725
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1792]

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: 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 Yorktown, Virginia, depicting the armies when Cornwallis surrendered].
Identifier(s): graphics:5731; local: APSdigobj3454
Description: The disposition of the troops and fleets are carefully delineated. This map was published in Philadelphia in 1782. Provenance: Presented by Richard Randolph, 7 October 1831.; 654: 1781: B321ytv: Small.
Creator: Bauman, Sebastianet al
Subject: Maps; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: 1781 October 22-28

Title: A map of the head of Chesapeake Bay and Susquehanna River.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3540; APSdigobj3540
Description: Inset: Plan of the town of Havre de Grace. Wheat: 520
Creator: Hauducoeur, C. P.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Chesapeake Bay; Susquehanna River
Date: 1799

Title: A map historical and biographical chart.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3514; APSdigobj3514
Description: See: Robert L. Brunhouse, "David Ramsey, selections from his writings." American Philosophical Society. Transactions, n.s., vol. 55.
Creator: Ramsay, David, 1749-1815
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; United States; Historical chart
Date: [ca. 1815]