This 1657 map, entitled Novae Franciae Accurata Delineatio (An accurate depiction of New France), is attributed to the Jesuit Francesco Bressani (1612-72), who was sent as a missionary to the Huron Indians in 1642.

Facsimile of Comberford's 1657 map. Accompanies: North Carolina in maps / W.P. Cumming. Oriented with north to right.

Media in category "1657 maps" The following 42 files are in this category, out of 42 total. Audience de Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, etc - par N. Sanson d'Abbeville, geogr. ordin. du Roy.

1657 Sanson Map of the East Indies (Sumatra, Java, Borneo) 8 x 10.25 in. details

2024年4月29日 · The 1657 map of Hangzho that was printed in Amsterdam provides a bird’s-eye view of Hangzhou. This was a well established topographical tradition in the Low Countries. According to scholar Hartzer Nguyen, this genre was the most popular of the two basic compositional types of topographic illustration of that time.

Military Battles and Campaigns This category contains maps showing campaigns of major military conflicts including troop movements, defensive structures and groundworks, roads to and from sites of military engagements, campsites, and local buildings, topography and vegetation. Some of the maps are manuscripts drawn on the field of battle, while ...

Taken from Jan Jansson's Atlantis majoris, 1657, no. 59. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Searches for the remnants of the Lost Colony by the English at Jamestown, made under specific orders from England, were unsuccessful. Reports have survived of sporadic attempts to settle land in the region around Albemarle Sound in the first half of the 17th century, but the undertakings were apparently not permanent.

Record of an Ideal: Father Francesco Giuseppe Bressani’s 1657 Map of New France by Louis Cardinal. A Tribute to David Woodward by Kenneth Nebenzahl. Normandy Maps and Models by Peter Hesse. Ortelius’s Chesapeake by William C. Wooldridge. Discovery of the New World Through Old Maps by Wes Brown. Historic Maps of Russia, by Steve Boulay ...

This is Nicolas Visscher's c. 1657 map of the East Indies, one of the defining Dutch maps of the primary source of Dutch wealth for the second half of the 17th century. The map shows India and the Indian Ocean, the East Indies, the north coast of Australia showing the Gulf of Carpentaria, and New Guinea.