The Map Thief (32 page)
Authors: Michael Blanding
1777 | William Faden | Sketch of the Position of the British Forces at Elizabeth Town Point | New York/M | Recovered |
1777 | William Faden | Sketch of the Surprise of German Town | New York/M | Recovered |
1778 | Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy | Amérique Septentrionale | Yale/M | Recovered |
178? | Anonymous | Caroline Meridionale et Partie de la Georgie (manuscript) | Boston/M | Unrecovered |
178? | Anonymous | Manuscript Map of the Operations at the Siege of Savannah in 1779 | Boston/M | Recovered |
1780 | Joseph F.W. Des Barres | A Sketch of the Environs of Charlestown in South Carolina | New York/M | Unrecovered |
1780 | Joseph F.W. Des Barres | A Sketch of the Operations before Charlestown the Capital of South Carolina | New York/M | Recovered |
1784 | Jean Lattre | Carte des Etats-Unis de l’Amerique | Yale/M | Recovered |
1792 | William Blodgett | A New and Correct Map of Connecticut | New York/M | Recovered |
1792 | Andrew Ellicott | Plan of the City of Washington | Harvard | Recovered |
1794 | Carleton Osgood (Norman Chart) | A New General Chart of the West Indies | Boston/M | Recovered |
1794 | A.P. Folie | Plan of the City and Suburbs of Philadelphia | New York/M | Recovered |
1796 | Aaron Arrowsmith | United States of North America | New York/M | Recovered |
ca. 1798 | Anthony Smith (Norman Chart) | A New and Accurate Chart of the Bay of Chesapeak | Boston/M | Recovered |
1801 | Osgood Carleton | Map of Massachusetts Proper Compiled from Actual Surveys | New York/M | Recovered |
1815 | William Darby and John Melish | A Map of the State of Louisiana | Yale/M | Recovered |
1816 | D.L. Dunbibin (Norman Chart) | Chart of the Coast of America from Cape Hatteras to Cape Roman | Boston/M | Recovered |
1816 | T. Rogers (Norman Chart) | New Chart of the Gulf of Florida and Bahama Banks | Boston/M | Recovered |
1816 | John Melish | Map of the United States with the Contiguous British & Spanish Possessions | New York/M | Recovered |
1822 | John Wilson | A Map of South Carolina | Yale/M | Recovered |
ADDITIONAL MAPS LIBRARIES REPORTED MISSING
KEY:
Boston/M = Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
Boston/B = Boston Public Library, Rare Books Department
British Library = British Library, Map Library
Harvard = Harvard University, Houghton Library
New York/M = New York Public Library, Map Division
New York/B = New York Public Library, Rare Book Division
Yale/B = Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale/M = Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library Map Collection
Date | Creator | Title | Owner | Status |
1524 | Hernán Cortés | Facsimile of Untitled (Tenochtitlán/Gulf of Mexico) | New York/B | Missing |
1524 | Hernán Cortés | Untitled (Tenochtitlán/Gulf of Mexico) | Yale/B | Recovered |
1525 | Martin Waldseemüller | Terra Nova Ocaenus Occidentalis (world) | New York/M | Missing |
1530 | Oronce Fine | Nova et Integra Vniversi Orbis Descriptio (double-cordiform world) | New York/B | Missing |
1540 | Oronce Fine | Nova et Integra Vniversi Orbis Descriptio (double-cordiform world) | Harvard | Missing |
1562 | Abraham Ortelius | Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio | Yale/M | Missing |
1578 | George Best | Untitled (world) | British Library | Found |
1578 | George Best | Untitled (world) | Harvard | Recovered |
1589 | Humphrey Gilbert and Richard Hakluyt | A General Map Made Onelye for the Particuler Declaration of this Discovery (world) | New York/B | Missing |
1590 | Abraham Ortelius | Islandia circa 1590 | Yale/M | Missing |
1591 | Theodor de Bry | Occidentalis Americae Partis (West Indies) | Boston/B | Missing |
1591 | Jacques Le Moyne | Floridae Americae Provinciae Recens & Exactissima Descriptio | Boston/B | Recovered |
1591 | John White | Americae Pars, Nunc Virginia Dicta (Virginia) | Boston/B | Recovered |
1595 | Gerard Mercator | Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio (polar regions) | Yale/M | Missing |
1600 | Jodocus Hondius | Tartaria (black and white) | Yale/M | Missing |
1600 | Jodocus Hondius | Tartaria (color) | Yale/M | Missing |
1612 | Samuel de Champlain | Carte Géographique de la Nouvelle France Faictte . . . | Harvard | Missing |
1613 | Samuel de Champlain | Carte Géographique de la Nouvelle France Faictte . . . | Boston/B | Missing |
1613 | Samuel de Champlain | Carte Géographique de la Nouvelle France en Son Vray Mondia | Boston/B | Missing |
1613 | Samuel de Champlain | Carte Géographique de la Nouvelle France en Son Vray Mondia | New York/B | Missing |
1624 | William Alexander | Untitled (New England and New France) | British Library | Missing |
1624 | William Alexander | Untitled (New England and New France) | New York/B | Missing |
1625 | William Alexander | Untitled (New England and New France) | Boston/B | Missing |
1625 | John Smith | Virginia | Boston/B | Recovered |
1625 | William Alexander | Untitled (New England and New France) | British Library | Missing |
1625 | William Alexander | Untitled (New England and New France) | Harvard | Missing |
1631 | Guijelmo Blaeuw [Blaeu] | Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geografica ac Hy’Drografica Tablua (world) | Yale/M | Missing |
1632 | Samuel de Champlain | Carte de la Nouvelle France | New York/B | Missing |
1635 | John Smith | New England | New York/B | Missing |
1635 | Luke Foxe | Untitled (Northwest Passage) | Yale/B | Missing |
1639 | Hendrik Hondius | Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geografica ac Hy’drografica Tablua (world) | Yale/M | Missing |
1643 | Jean Boisseau | Description de la Nouvelle France | Yale/M | Recovered |
1646 | Robert Dudley | Carte Seconda Generale del America (Florida to St. Lawrence Gulf) | Boston/M | Missing |
1647 | Robert Dudley | Carta Particolare della Nuova Belgia è Parte della Nuoua Angelica (New England) | Yale/M | Missing |
1647 | Robert Dudley | Carta Particolare della Virginia Vecchia e Nuoua (Chesapeake) | New York/M | Recovered |
1653 | Jan Jansson | Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova (New England) | Yale/M | Missing |
1660 | Nicolaes Visscher | Plate 86 | New York/M | Missing |
1660 | Nicolaes Visscher | Plate 89 | New York/M | Missing |
1660 | Nicolaes Visscher | Plate 90 | New York/M | Missing |
1666 | Robert Horne | Carolina Described | New York/B | Missing |
1671 | Claude Dablon and Claude Allouez | Lac Tracy ov Svperievr | Harvard | Missing |
1671 | Jacobsz (Loots-man) and Jacob & Casparus | Pascaerte van Nieu Nederlant, Virginies, Nieu Englant en Nova Francia (Plate 28) | New York/M | Missing |
1671 | James Moxon | A New Description of Carolina by Order of the Lords Proprietors | New York/M | Missing |
1672 | Claude Dablon and Claude Allouez | Lac Tracy ov Svperievr | New York/B | Missing |
1672 | John Lederer | Map of the Whole Territory Traversed by John Lederer in His Three Marches | Boston/B | Missing |
1672 | John Lederer | Map of the Whole Territory Traversed by John Lederer in His Three Marches | New York/B | Missing |
1672 | John Seller | Chart of West Indies from Cape Cod to the River Oronoque | Boston/M | Missing |
1672 | John Speed | A Map of New England and New York | Yale/M | Missing |
1673 | Claude Dablon and Claude Allouez | Lac Svperieur et Autres Lieux | Boston/B | Missing |
1675 | John Morden and William Berry | A Map of New England New Yorke New Jersey Maryland & Virginia | Yale/M | Missing |
1675 | John Seller | A Chart of the South Sea | Yale/M | Missing |
1676 | John Speed | America with Those Known Parts in That Unknowne Worlde | Boston/M | Missing |
1676 | Matthei Seutteri [Seutter] | Recens Edita Totius Novi Belgii in America Septentrionali circa 1676 | Yale/M | Missing |
1676 | John Speed/Francis Lamb | A Map of New England and New York | Yale/M | Missing |
1678 | Theunis Jacobsz Lootsman and Jacob & Casparus | De Noord Oost Zyde van Yerlandt van Caap de Hoorn tot aen Hedehde (Ireland, northeast side) | Boston/M | Missing |
1680 | F. De Witt [Van Keulen?] | Imperii Russici sive Moscoviae | Yale/M | Missing |
1680 | Frederik de Wit/John Thornton | A New Map Containing All the Citties. Market Townes. Rivers. Bridges. & Other Co[n]siderable places in England and Wales (Plate 5) | New York/M | Missing |
1680 | Frederik de Wit/John Thornton | A New Map of Ireland (Plate 3) | New York/M | Missing |
1680 | Frederik de Wit/John Thornton | A New Map of the Kingdome of England and Principality of Wales (Plate 7) | New York/M | Missing |
1680 | Frederik de Wit/John Thornton | A New Mapp of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Plate 2) | New York/M | Missing |
1680 | John Thornton, Robert Morden, and Philip Lea | A New Map of New England, New York, New Iarsey, Pensilvania, Maryland, and Virginia | Yale/M | Missing |
1682 | Joel Gascoyne | A New Map of the Country of Carolina | Yale/M | Missing |
1683 | Thomas Holme | A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia | Yale/M | Missing |
1684 | William Penn | A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia | New York/B | Missing |
1685 | Van Keulen | Pas-Kaart vande Zee Kusten van Niew Nederland | Yale/M | Missing |
1687 | Thomas Holme | A Map of the Province of Pennsilvania Containing the Three Countyes | Yale/M | Missing |
1690 | John Thornton, William Morden, and Philip Lea (?) | New England, New York, etc. | Boston/M | Missing |
1695 | Robert Morden | A New Map of the English Empire in America. Viz. Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, New York, New Iarsey, New England &c. | Yale/M | Missing |
1698 | John Seller | Chart of the Sea Coast of Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England | Yale/B | Missing |
1702 | Cotton Mather | An Exact Mapp of New England and New York | Yale/M | Missing |
1708 | Herman Moll | New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on Ye Continent of North America | Boston/M | Recovered |
1713 | Richard Daniel and W. Binneman | A New Mapp of New England and Annapolis with the Country’s Adjacent . . . | Yale/M | Missing |
1714 | John Senex and John Maxwell | North America Corrected from the Observations . . . | Yale/M | Missing |
1715 | John Senex | A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi | Yale/M | Missing |
1718 | Guillaume De L’Isle | Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi | Yale/M | Missing |
