Yucatan Peninsula
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: North and Central AmericaFound in 7 Collections and/or Records:
A Map of Mexico or New Spain, Florida now called Louisiana, Part of California &c., from Atlas geographus, 1717
Item — Box 1, Folder: Map 21
Identifier: 3976.709
Description
From Map CardHerman Moll, (d.1732), GeographerJ. Nutt, London, 1717Scale: 1:20,000,000See Phillips Atlases, Vol. 1, p. 312 (Entry #557, vol.5 p.[7962]).Hargrett Collection, p.339 Label Text Herman Moll's 18th-century map shows European settlements and many Indigenous nations, including the Apaches in present-day New Mexico and the "Chicachas" (Chickasaws) and "Chaktas" (Choctaws) in present-day...
Dates:
1717
Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio (America or the New World, a New Description), 1570
Item — Box 20, Folder: Map 3
Identifier: 3965.569
Translated Title
A New Representation of America, or the New World Transcript (DCI) Hic uspiam insulas esle auro dissites nonnulli noluntHe due insule infortunate sunt dicte a Magellano, qud nec homines nee victui apta haberentNova Guinea, Andrea at Corsalus Florent: videtur eā sub nomine Terre Piccinnacoli designarePorto real ad quem Galli mercatum nauigantPatagonum Regio. ubi incole sunt...
Dates:
1570
Carte de l'Amérique et des Mers Voisines, 1763
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3976.76
Translated Title
Descriptive Title
Map of America and Neighboring Seas
Descriptive Title
La Petit Atlas Manitime, Volume I
Dates:
1763
Chart of the Caribbean Sea, ca. 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:
ca. 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
Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, 1675
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3976.161
Translated Title
A Most Recent Map of the Entire World Descriptive Title Atlas Manitumus Label Text With a map of the globe surrounded by astronomical diagrams, zodiac signs, and allegorical scenes of the four seasons, this image aims to chart both time and place on the Earth and in the heavens. But Seller also combines fact and fantasy: California is depicted as an island, and the map includes the mythical...
Dates:
1675
Typus Orbis Terrarum, 16th century
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3935.62
Translated Title
An Image of the World Transcript (DCI) Nova Guinea nuper inuenta que an sit insula an pars continentis Australis incertũ est.Hanc continentem Australem nonulli Magellanicam regionem ab eius inuentore nuncupant.America sive in Dia nova. anno domini 1492 a Christophoro Colombo nomine regis Castellę primum detecta.Psitacorum Regio, sie a Lusitanis appellata ob in: credibile earum auium ibidem magnitudinem....
Dates:
16th century