Caribbean Sea
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: Hierarchy of Oceans (miscellaneous) .... Oceans (miscellaneous) (P)
Hierarchy of Caribbean Sea (sea) ........ Caribbean Sea (sea) (P)
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
America Septentrionalis, 1649
Item — Drawer MC-2, Folder: Map 15
Identifier: 39.608
Translated Title
North America Description This map depicts North, Central, and South America with California detached from the mainland. Inscribed in type in Latin, "California, a prioribus Geographis semper habita suit quedam para Contineus atcepts per Hollandes ab Hispanis tabula quaedam Geographica compertum essinsulam ebe et continers ubi larissima est geo leucas A. Cap. Mendecino nero nsq, ad C.S. Luce repertum est teslibus tabula predicta et Francisco...
Dates:
1649
Chart of the Caribbean Sea, circa 1740
Item — Drawer MC-1, Folder: Map 31
Identifier: 3976.592
Description
From catalog info:Caribbean AreaSpanish Cartogtapher, 18th CenturyScale: 1:3,500,000Probably drawn by the Spanish Royal School of Navigation in Cadiz, Spain, ca.1740.Portolan, chart drawn on vellum with black ink; has grid markings on north, west, & south. Margins hand colored red, green, black in 12 parts, Spanish plave names.The delineation of the shoreline for Central and South America coasts seems fairly reasonable for its time. The Caribbean Islands are...
Dates:
circa 1740
Chart of the Gulf of Mexico and Cuba, circa 1740
Item — Drawer MC-1, Folder: Map 30
Identifier: 3976.593
Description
From catalog info:Probably drawn by Spanish Royal School of Navigation, Cadiz, Spain, ca. 1740Scale: Two inches equals one degree, 1:2,500,000Portolan chart drawn on vellum with black ink; compass rose in red, blue, & greenFairly accurate chart for shoreline delineation for its time. The Island of Cuba seems to be poorly defined and 3/4 of island to east of Havanna is not shown. The general shoreline around the Gulf of Mexico is in good alignment from the Yucatan...
Dates:
circa 1740
Map of Mexico, or New Spain, Louisiana, and part of California, 1717
Item — Drawer E-11, Folder: Map 21
Identifier: 3976.709
Description
From Map Card
Herman Moll, (d.1732), Geographer
J. Nutt, London, 1717
Scale: 1:20,000,000
See Phillips Atlases, Vol. 1, p. 312 (Entry #557, vol.5 p.[7962]).
Hargrett Collection, p.339
Dates:
1717
Map of the Cayman Islands and Caribbean Sea, 1726
Item — Drawer E-11, Folder: Map 25
Identifier: 3976.739
Description
From catalog info:
Anonymous (Ship Petersfield, 1726).
Vellum Manuscript with color added
Scale: 1:1,850,000
Dates:
1726