Historical Maps of the United States and North America

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2 min readApr 21, 2020

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First printed map of the American continents by Sebastian Münster (1554)

Map of the Americas by Abraham Ortelius (1570)

Map of the Americas by Frederik de Wit (1610)

Nicholas Sanson’s map of Florida, New Mexico and the island of California, 1656

“Americae Nova Descriptio…” (1663)

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