Yucatan Peninsula
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: North and Central America
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, 1570
Item — Drawer MC-2, 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, 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
Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, 1675
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3976.161
Translated Title
Descriptive Title
A Most Recent Map of the Entire World
Descriptive Title
Atlas Manitumus
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