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Hispania nova

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro.
Date: 1597
Creator: Wytfliet, Cornille
System: The Portal to Texas History

America noviter delineata

Map of North and South America showing political boundaries and place names. Includes inset of Greenland and illustrations of ships and sea monsters.
Date: 1633
Creator: Merian, Matthaeus
System: The Portal to Texas History

Audience de Mexico

Map of Mexico and surrounding areas. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro.
Date: 1657
Creator: Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
System: The Portal to Texas History

De Cust van Westindien van La Desconoscida tot C. Escondido

Map of the coastline along the western part of the Gulf of Mexico, starting in the south (left) at a point labeled "La Desconoscida" and ending in the north (right) at "C[iudad] Escondido." Segments of the coastline are shaded in red, yellow, and green, with labels for river mouths, ports, islands, and other points along the coast.
Date: 1680
Creator: Roffeveen, Arent, -1679
System: The UNT Digital Library

Le vieux Mexique, ou, Nouvelle Espagne avec les costes de la Floride : faisant-partic de l'Amerique septentrionale / par N. de Fer.

Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Paris : Chez l'auteur dans l'Isle du Palais sur le quay de l'Orloge a la sphere royale avec privil du roy, 1702.
Date: 1702
Creator: Fer, Nicolas de
System: The Portal to Texas History

Les costes aux environs de la Riviere de Misisipi : decouvertes par Mr. de la Salle en 1683 et reconnues par Mr. le Chevallier dÍberville en 1698 et 1699 / par N. de Fer ; Vincent de Ginville, sculpsit.

Hand colored. From: LÁtlas curieux / N. de Fer. "122." Martin, J.C. Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900, p. 49, 91.
Date: 1705
Creator: Fer, Nicolas de
System: The Portal to Texas History

L'Amerique meridionale: Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les Plus recens

Hand-drawn color map of South America in 1708. Countries are shaded in different colors and some paths are marked in color. Bodies of water and geographic features are noted, with relief shown pictorially.
Date: 1722
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
System: The UNT Digital Library

Carte du Mexique et de la Floride, des terres angloises et des Isles Antilles, du cours et des environs de la riviere de Mississippi / dressée sur un grand nombre de memoires principalement sur ceux de Mrs. d'Iberville et le sueur [...] ; par Guillaume del'Isle ; I. Stemmers, senior, sculp.

Hand drawn map showing North America, Mexico and a northern section of Amerique Meridionale in 1722. Place names and topographical features included.
Date: 1722
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume
System: The Portal to Texas History

Europa, secundum legitimas projectionis stereographic︠a︡e regulas et juxta recentissimas observationes ︠a︡eque ac relationes adhibitis qvoq[ue] veterum monumentorum subsidiis

Hand-drawn, color map of Europe as of 1743 with place names, geopolitical borders and some topographical features. Boundaries and features are noted, with relief shown pictorially.
Date: 1743
Creator: Hase, Johann Matthias, 1684-1742
System: The UNT Digital Library

Karte von der Erdenge Panama und den Provinzen Veragua, Terra Firma und Darien

Color map of Panama and surrounding areas. Some towns are marked as well as bodies of water and geographic features with relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris.
Date: 1754
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
System: The Portal to Texas History

Regni Mexicani seu Novæ Hispaniæ, Ludovicianæ, N. Angliæ, Carolinæ, Virginiæ et Pensylvaniæ, necnon insvlarvm archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali

Hand drawn map of North America with geographical landmarks and place names in Latin. Map decorated with drawings of ships.
Date: 1759~/1784~
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Environs, or Countries Twenty Miles Round London

Hand-drawn map of 20 counties around London in 1761. Various buildings and features are marked on the map pictorally.
Date: 1761
Creator: Kitchin, Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library

A New and Correct Plan of London, Westminster and Southwark, with several Additional Improvements, not in any former Survey.

Map showing plan of London (Westminster and Southwark) as of 1761. Streets and some buildings are noted. Scale 1:10,800.
Date: 1761
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Collection of Travel Maps]

Nine maps depicting the travels of the author to accompany his journals. The first map shows routes through parts of the Middle East and Asia with references to the Orenburgh Expedition. The second map shows routes in Northern Europe and parts of Russia, including towns in Prussia, Germany, and the Netherlands. The third map shows various portions of the Volga River in four separate, overlapping insets with nearby towns noted. The fourth map shows an area around the Eastern Ocean including present-day Saudi Arabia and India; regions and towns are noted as well as geographic features (with relief shown pictorially). The fifth map shows land around the Caspian Sea including routes of the Russian Embassy, towns, and geographic features (with relief shown pictorially). The sixth map shows a portion of Russia depicting the Orenburgh Expedition as well as towns, landmarks, and geographic features which are marked pictorially. The seventh map shows the Caspian Sea with surrounding regions and geographic features (with relief marked pictorially). The eighth map shows Europe and some surrounding areas including routes taken by the Russia Company, cities, and geographic features. The final (ninth) map is of Siberia and bordering areas; regions and landmarks are noted as …
Date: 1762
Creator: Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Carte Reduite du Globe Terrestre

Hand-drawn map of the world, circa 1763. The place names are in French with some cities noted as well as geographic features (with relief shown pictorially).
Date: 1763~
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
System: The UNT Digital Library

Carte Reduite du Golphe du Mexique, et des Isles de l'Amerique.

Map of the Caribbean area in 1774, including some portions of Central America. Some towns and roads are noted as well as depths and other geographic features, with relief shown pictorially.
Date: 1774
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
System: The UNT Digital Library

Course of the River Mississippi, from the Balise to Fort Chartres: Taken on an Expedition to the Illinois, in the latter end of the Year 1765.

Course of the Mississippi River from the Balise to Fort Chartres based on surveys made by the French. Surrounding geographic features are noted with relief shown pictorially.
Date: June 1, 1775
Creator: Ross, Lieutenant
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mexico, or, New Spain : in which the motion of Cortes may be traced / for the Rev. Dr. Robertson's History of America by Thos. Kitchin Senr., hydrographer to His Majesty.

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Inset: Supplement of the environs of Mexico. "Vol. 2."
Date: 1777
Creator: Kitchin, Thomas & Robertson, William
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carte de la Côte N.O. de l'Amérique et de la Côte N.E. de l'Asie reconnues en 1778 et 1779

Shows the Northwest coast of North America as explored on Cook's third voyage. Included are the opposite coast of Asia, Cook's path, and his readings. Relief shown pictorially. Inset: Plan de l'Entrée de Nootka.
Date: 1780/1788
Creator: Bonne, Rigobert
System: The Portal to Texas History

A Chart of the Gulf Stream

Map of the Gulf Stream from Florida and the Bahama Islands at lower left of map, up along the coast of North America, and to Newfoundland and the Grand Banks at upper right of map, as charted by Benjamin Franklin. At left side is text describing the journey from Newfoundland west and south along the Atlantic coast. In the text, "Gulf" is spelled "Gulph" Labrador is labeled as "Land of the Eskimaux's". Inset at upper left is a map of the Atlantic Ocean, showing the Gulf Stream.
Date: 1786
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
System: The UNT Digital Library

Plan of the City of New Orleans and the Adjacent Plantations

Map of the city of New Orleans in 1798, including adjacent plantations (with property notes and the history of land ownership) and points of interest. Scale ca. 1:18,676 (ca. 280 toesas per inch).
Date: December 24, 1798
Creator: Trudeau, Carlos
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bowles's Geographical Game of the World]

Game board for "Bowles’s Geographical Game of the World" printed with a map of the world. It was meant to be played with multiple players, spinning a teetotum (spinning dice) to move their marker around the map, and to teach players basic facts about different parts of the world.
Date: [1803..1821]
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ground Plan of Newgate.

Floor plan for part of Newgate Prison in London, England. Scale ca. 1:192.
Date: 1808
Creator: Neild, James, 1744-1814.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Spanish dominions in North America

A map of the southern United States, Central America, and part of the Gulf of Mexico. All of the marked spots on the map are Spanish dominions.
Date: 1812
Creator: Arrowsmith, Aron
System: The Portal to Texas History