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Americae septentrionalis pars I.
Map shows "Louisania" [French Louisiana], "Tecas" [Texas], New Navare and New Mexico, "Great Space of Land unknown," settlements, and areas of Native American habitation. Inset: [Map of Baffin's Bay, Hudson's Bay and adjacent lands]; in upper left corner: "This scale is half of the other." Includes dates and names of explorers. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not indicated.
Date:
[1750..1770]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Figure de la ville de Jerusalem.
Map shows buildings inside Jerusalem. According to its French inscription, this map purports to show how Jerusalem and its environs looked from the time of David, ca. 1010 B.C. until its destruction at the time of Roman Emperor Titus in 70 A.D. The map was intended to help illuminate the third chapter of the Bible book of Nehemia, and it possibly came from a seventeenth century French Huguenot or Swiss Protestant Bible. Relief shown pictorially. Includes legend. Text in French, building names and historical sites in Latin. No scale given.
Date:
1750?
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History