Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Libraryhttps://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/partners/UTA/browse/?fq=dc_language:eng&fq=untl_decade:1700-17092013-03-08T21:50:32-06:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Partner: University of Texas at Arlington LibraryA new map of the world according to Wrights alias Mercators projection &c. : drawn from the newest and the most exact observations together with a view of the general and coasting trade winds, monsoons or the shifting trade winds with other considerable improvements &c. by Ier: Seller and Cha: Price Hydrographers to the Queen at the Hermitage staires and at their shopp nex't the Fleece Taverne in Cornhill.2013-03-08T21:50:32-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth298354/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth298354/"><img alt="A new map of the world according to Wrights alias Mercators projection &c. : drawn from the newest and the most exact observations together with a view of the general and coasting trade winds, monsoons or the shifting trade winds with other considerable improvements &c. by Ier: Seller and Cha: Price Hydrographers to the Queen at the Hermitage staires and at their shopp nex't the Fleece Taverne in Cornhill." title="A new map of the world according to Wrights alias Mercators projection &c. : drawn from the newest and the most exact observations together with a view of the general and coasting trade winds, monsoons or the shifting trade winds with other considerable improvements &c. by Ier: Seller and Cha: Price Hydrographers to the Queen at the Hermitage staires and at their shopp nex't the Fleece Taverne in Cornhill." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth298354/small/"/></a></p><p>Map shows known continent geography, cities, political boundaries, and place names. Inset: [North Polar view]. Scale [ca. 1:45,000,000].</p>America Septentrionalis novissima : America Meridionalis accuratissima.2012-09-07T13:35:01-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth251714/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth251714/"><img alt="America Septentrionalis novissima : America Meridionalis accuratissima." title="America Septentrionalis novissima : America Meridionalis accuratissima." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth251714/small/"/></a></p><p>Map shows geography, settlements, and areas of Native American habitation in early eighteenth century North America, South America, and West Indies. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:23,000,000].</p>A new map of North America : shewing [sic.] its principal divisions, chief cities, townes, rivers, mountains &c.2012-09-07T13:35:01-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth252041/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth252041/"><img alt="A new map of North America : shewing [sic.] its principal divisions, chief cities, townes, rivers, mountains &c." title="A new map of North America : shewing [sic.] its principal divisions, chief cities, townes, rivers, mountains &c." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth252041/small/"/></a></p><p>Map shows known extent of North America and the West Indies; "English plantations," "Florida", "New Mexico or New Granada," "Mexico or New Spain"; California as an island; Great Lakes as: Traci or Upper L. Illinois L., Huron L., Erie L. or Cats L., Ontario L. or Frontenac; missions and settlements. Includes table of abbreviations, notes and dates of discoveries. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.</p>A new & exact map of the coast, countries and islands within ye limits of ye South Sea Company: from ye River Aranoca to Terra del Fuego, and from thence through ye South Sea, to ye north part of California &c. with a view of the general coasting trade-winds, and particular draughts of the most important bays, ports, & c.2012-09-07T13:35:01-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth252043/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth252043/"><img alt="A new & exact map of the coast, countries and islands within ye limits of ye South Sea Company: from ye River Aranoca to Terra del Fuego, and from thence through ye South Sea, to ye north part of California &c. with a view of the general coasting trade-winds, and particular draughts of the most important bays, ports, & c." title="A new & exact map of the coast, countries and islands within ye limits of ye South Sea Company: from ye River Aranoca to Terra del Fuego, and from thence through ye South Sea, to ye north part of California &c. with a view of the general coasting trade-winds, and particular draughts of the most important bays, ports, & c." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth252043/small/"/></a></p><p>Map shows settlements, areas of Native American habitation, routes of travel, mining activity, and "limits" of the South Sea Company; California, New Mexico, and Florida, New Spain, and all of South America with some political divisions. Includes notes and dedication cartouche. Insets: "A Chart from England to the River Ara-noca &c," "Peypses or Pepys I., p. 24.," "A Map of ye Straits of Magellan &c., page 27.," "A Map of the Isthmus of Darien The Bay of Panama &c., p. 136.," "The Gallapagos Islands, p. 119.," "The Island of Juan Ferdinando, p. 69.," "The Gulf of Nicoya or Gulf of Salinas, p. 130.," "The Gulf of Amapalla or Fonesca, p. 180," and "The Port of Acapulco." Relief shown pictorially. Depths by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:27,000,000].</p>[Atlantic Ocean]2012-04-27T13:07:42-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth220374/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth220374/"><img alt="[Atlantic Ocean]" title="[Atlantic Ocean]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth220374/small/"/></a></p><p>Map shows shows eighteenth century African, North American, and South American cities and ports ports on the Atlantic Ocean as well as the sailing distances between them. No scale indicated.</p>A new generall [sic.] chart for the West Indies, of E. Wrights projection vut. Mercators chart.2011-11-12T07:34:12-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192443/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192443/"><img alt="A new generall [sic.] chart for the West Indies, of E. Wrights projection vut. Mercators chart." title="A new generall [sic.] chart for the West Indies, of E. Wrights projection vut. Mercators chart." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192443/small/"/></a></p><p>Map shows cities and towns along the "Western Ocean" [Atlantic] coasts of Europe, North America, the Caribbean Islands, South America, and Africa. Scale not given.</p>A chart of the Bay of Mexico.2011-11-12T07:34:12-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192497/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192497/"><img alt="A chart of the Bay of Mexico." title="A chart of the Bay of Mexico." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192497/small/"/></a></p><p>Map shows grid lines, leading lines, rocky areas, anchorages, sandbanks, settlements along the coast, and place names along the early eighteenth century "Bay of Mexico" coastline. Depths shown by soundings. Inset: "Entrance of the River Mesashebe or Misehisipi" [Mississippi River]. Scale statement reads "English and French Leagues, 20 in a degree."</p>