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Speed's map is one of the earliest maps to illustrate dramatic shift from Dutch to English dominance in the Northeast in the latter part of the 17th Century and one of the earliest to use the term New York for both Manhattan (formerly New Amsterdam)…

Decorative example of Visscher's important map of the Northeast, with a large inset view of New York City.

This is the first map containing the famous inset view of New Amsterdam, the third known engraved view of New York. Manhattan is correctly…

Beautiful full color example of the Ogilby's map of the the Northeast, extending from the St. Laurence and New England to the Chespeake and centered on Long Island, which is still shown as an island.

The first state of the map, which was later…

In 1697, Wolfgang William Romer, a military engineer, accompanied Lord Bellomont, the newly appointed governor, to New York to serve as chief engineer. In 1700, Romer explored the territories of the Iroquois Confederacy, who were allied with the…

In the year 1656 Arnold Colom published Zee-Atlas, ofte Water-Wereldt, which contains this chart (Burden #316) of the region from Cape Cod to Carolina. Delaware Bay is reasonably shown with the capes named and also the 'Schuyl Kil', kil means river…

This map contains an inset view of New York city entitled, " Nieuw Yorck eertijs genaemt Nieuw Amsterdam op't eylant Manhattans".