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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 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: 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: 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: Plan of the boundary lines between the provinces of Maryland and the three lower counties of Delaware
Identifier(s): graphics:10831; Realms of Gold identifier: 902, 649: [ca. 1768]: Sm57madL Large
Description: Full title: Plan of the boundary lines between the provinces of Maryland and the three lower counties of Delaware, with part of the parallel of latitude which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. [The line was run by Mason and Dixon. London: ca. 1768].; Mease presented several "rare and interesting maps, of early date, of the division lines between Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, accompanied by some explanatory notes." The gifts were listed as: 1. A plan of the Boundary line between the Province of Maryland, and the three lower Counties on Delaware, with facts (?) of the paralel [sic] of Latitude, which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsa. 2. A plan of the famous "West Line," or paralel [sic] of latitude, which is the boundary between the Provinces of Maryland and Pennsa. which was run by Mason and Dixon in 1762 & 8. 3. A map of that part of America, where a degree of latitude was measured for the Royal Society by Mason and Dixon in 1768 [Archives. J. Mease to APS, 19 May 1826; Minutes; Donation Book; Transactions, n.s., vol. 3]. Wheat: 497 See: Thomas D. Cope, "Degrees along the west line . . ." APS Proceedings, 1949. Provenance: Presented and autographed by James Mease, 19 May 1826, another copy presented by Chew Family Trust, 15 November 1982.
Subject: Maps.; Maryland.; Pennsylvania.; Mason-Dixon Line.; Delaware.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: 1768

Title: A map of the coast of East Florida from the River St. John southward near to Cape Canaveral
Identifier(s): graphics:10409
Description: Bound volume with foldout. Realms of Gold identifier: 1186, 917.3: B28 In: William Bartram, Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws . . . Philadelphia: James & Johnson: 1791. Wheat: 628 Provenance: Presented by William Bartram, 20 July 1792.
Subject: Bartram, William, 1739-1823; Florida; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: 1791

Title: Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia, ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after the year MDCCC.
Identifier(s): graphics:5834; local: APSdigobj3541
Description: Contains autograph of Washington. Wheat: 531 Provenance: Presented by George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 22 April 1793; subsequently by Buchan to the American Philosophical Society, 17 July 1793. Realms of Gold identifier: 1078, 653: 1792: T328pcw Large
Creator: Thackara, James, 1767-1848et al
Subject: Maps; District of Columbia; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: 1792

Title: Map of the United States, exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections and distances of the post-offices stage roads, counties & principal rivers, 1804.
Identifier(s): graphics:10283
Description: Realms of Gold identifier: 559, 635: 1804: B721usb Large This map was first published in 1796. See Realms of Gold Map No. 555.
Subject: Bradley, Abraham, 1767-1838; Maps; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800; Postal service
Date: 1804

Title: A chart of Delaware Bay and River, containing a full and exact description of the shores, creeks, harbours, soundings, shoals, sands and bearings of the most considerable land marks ,&c. &c.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3527; APSdigobj3527
Description: Original in North American pilot. . . London: Laurie and Whittle: 1800. No. 10.
Creator: Fisher, Joshua, 1707-1783
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Delaware Bay; Delaware; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1794 May 12]

Title: Carte des États-Unis de l'Amérique suivant le traité de paix de 1783.
Identifier(s): graphics:5799; local: APSdigobj3512
Description: Inset: Supplément à la Floride.On the right and left sides of the map are: Principaux événemens militaires entre les Américains et les Anglois.The Society also owns a reproduction of this map taken from the copy in the Newberry Library. Realms of Gold identifier: 551; Full title: Carte des États-Unis de l'Amérique suivant le traité de paix de 1783. Dédiée et présentée à, S. Excellence Mr. Benjamin Franklin ministre plenipotentiare des États-Unis de l'Amérique près la Cour de France, anc. présid. de la conventiõ de Pensilvanie et de la société philosophique de Philadelphia, &c. &c. Par son très humble et très obeissant serviteur Lattré.
Creator: Lattré, Jeanet al
Subject: Maps; North America; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1784

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: Sketch of the action on the heights of Charles Town 17 June 1775, between his magestys troops under the command of M. General Howe & a large body of American rebel's.
Identifier(s): graphics:5730; local: APSdigobj3453
Description: 644: 1775: D325 chm: Small.
Creator: De Berniere, Henryet al
Subject: Maps; Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775.; Maps.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: 1775

Title: State of Massachusetts. Compiled from the best authorities, [1795]
Identifier(s): graphics:10280
Description: The American Philosophical Society 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). Wheat: 213. See: M. Carey, Carey's American atlas. Philadelphia: Carey, 1796, no. 5. Provenance: Presented by Mathew Carey, 18 October 1805.
Subject: American Philosophical Society; Massachusetts; Maps.; Guthrie, William, 1708-1770.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: 1795

Title: A map of the middle British colonies in North America.
Identifier(s): graphics:5819; local: APSdigobj3525
Description: Inset: A sketch of the remaining part of Ohio R. &c.
Creator: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756et al
Subject: Maps; Middle Atlantic States; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800; Colonies
Date: [1776 March 25]

Title: A map of the country between Albermarle Sound and Lake Erie, comprehending the whole of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, with parts of several other of the United States of America.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3526; APSdigobj3526
Description: The Society asked Thomas Jefferson in 1805 for a copy of his Notes on Virginia. Jefferson wrote 2 May 1805 and presented "a single copy remaining of the original edition printed at Paris, the only one almost perfectly correct, & was never sold, a few copies only having been printed and given to my friends" (Archives).In: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia.
Creator: Fry Jefferson Scull Hutchins
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Virginia; Maryland; Delaware; Pennsylvania; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1786]

Title: A Map of the Tennassee Government formerly Part of North Carolina taken chiefly from Surveys by Gen'l. D. Smith & others.
Identifier(s): graphics:10293
Subject: Guthrie, W. K. C. (William Keith Chambers), 1906-; Maps; Tennessee; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: 1795

Title: [Middle Atlantic states, showing rivers and mountains and location of sea shells on the tops of the mountains].
Identifier(s): graphics:5727; local: APSdigobj3452
Description: As early as 1741, John Bartram sent some fossil sea shells to Sir Hans Sloan; other shells were sent to his London friend Peter Collinson in 1742. He wrote to Collinson in 1743 or 1744 that he had observed such fossils everywhere, "even on the top of the mountain that separates the waters of Susquehanna and St. Lawrence." (William Darlington, Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall [Philadelphia: 1849], p. 169.) Bartram was used to making rough maps of his travels and he made no pretense of being a competent surveyor. He apologized to Collinson for a map which he said was "Clumsily done, —having neither proper instruments nor convenient time," since he was drawing by the early light of dawn or by candlelight. Franklin wrote his friend Jared Eliot on 16 July 1747 of Bartram's discoveries: The great Apalachian Mountains, which run from York [Hudson] River back of these Colonies to the Bay of Mexico, show in many Places near the highest Parts of them, Strata Sea Shells, in some Places the marks of them are in the solid Rocks. 'Tis certainly the Wreck of a World we live on! We have Specimens of those Sea shell Rocks broken off near the Tops of those Mountains, brought and deposited in our Library [the Library Company of Philadelphia] as Curiosities. If you have not seen the like, I'll send you a Piece. (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin [New Haven: Yale University Press: 1961], vol. 3, p. 169.) The endorsement on the back reads, in Franklin's hand: "Mr. Bartram's Map very curious." 650: [ca.1750s]: At61mvc
Creator: Bartram, John, 1699-1777et al
Subject: Maps; Sea shells; Mountains; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Bartram, John, 1699-1777; Middle Atlantic States--Maps.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: [1750s]