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L'America Settentrionale

Description: This map shows Central America, the southern portion of North America, and the surrounding areas. Regions are outlined and shaded in various colors. Some bodies of water and geographic features are marked pictorially. There is also a color illustration of several people in the upper left corner with the title.
Date: 1690?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A generall [sic.] chart of the South Sea from the River of Plate to Dampiers Streights on ye coast of New Guinea

Description: Map shows islands islands in the "South Sea" and partial eastern coast lines of land forms including New Guinea and Japan; lower portion of North America including the eastern coast as far north as New England, the islands of the Caribbean, Central America, and all but the eastern portion of South America. California shown as an island. Includes cartouche and one historical note of discovery for "Staten Land" in the South Sea. Scale not given.
Date: [1690..1710]
Creator: Keating, Christopher
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

'T Amerikaans Gewest van Florida : Door Ferdinand De Soto Nader Ontdekt en groot deels Bemagtigt ; La Floride, Grand Paÿs de l'Amerique Septentrionale, plus avant decouverte et presque toute conquise par Ferdinand de Soto en 1534, tirée de ses Mémoires, et de tous ceux qui ont paru jusqu à present.

Description: Map shows the extent of Spanish Florida with settlements encompassing majority of southeastern portion of the North American continent. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1696
Creator: Aa, Pieter van der, 1530-1594
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

L'Amerique meridionale et septentrionale : dressée selon les dernieres relations et suivant les nouvelles decouvertes dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de Mss. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences.

Description: Map shows late seventeenth century geography, cities, political borders, and points of interest in North America, South America, and parts of England and France. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:29,000,000].
Date: 1699
Creator: Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Planisfero del mondo nuovo.

Description: Map shows known geography and place names in the Western Hemisphere. Includes "Tavola di clavio nella sfera del sacrobosco." Scale varies.
Date: 1695
Creator: Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Man swinging an axe at a snake while his wife jumps back in surprise]

Description: Etching and engraving print of a man swinging an axe at a snake. The man appears to be protecting his wife and child who sit in front of a large open hearth. The wife reacts in surprise and fear in the midst of cooking dinner with the child in her lap. This print has a unique ghost image on its verso of a woman dressed in French style fashion with a large wig embellished with feathers.
Date: [1695..1800]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him."]

Description: Etching and engraving print from page 216 of Charles Grignion I's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him.". The print includes an oval framing the scene with characteristic flourishes of ivy vines surrounding a plaque with the title information. The main figure in the image appears standing on his bed angrily confronting a flustered doctor to a room of terrified onlookers. The print was part of a copy of the picaresque novel "The Expedition of… more
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Grignion, Charles the Elder
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etcing and engraving "Puer parvulus minabiteos"]

Description: French religious etching and engraving titled "Puer Parvulus Minabiteos" (The Boy Threatened Them), which depictsa woman and three children in a field with a herd of wolfs, lions, and tigers among sheep and cattle. The main child, the baby Jesus, appears with a shepherds crook leading the flock.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714 & Lacroix, S. F. (Silvestre François), 1765-1843
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Hispaniola soo als het: door Kolumbus Ontdekt, en by de Kastilianen bevolkt is.

Description: Map shows settleements on the island of Hispaniola; the coast of New Spain and "Florida" [southeastern north american continent] along the Gulf of Mexico, and the islands in the Caribbean area. Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by isolines. Scale not given.
Date: [1695..1715]
Creator: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Tlandschap Cumana tussen Golfo de Venezuela en Rio de Paria Gelegen.

Description: Map shows settlements and missions in Venezuela; settlements and missions along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan peninsula, Cuba, and Jamaica. Includes illustrations of shipwreck [expedition by Franciscus de Garay to explore the Gulf in 1519]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not shown.
Date: [1695..1715]
Creator: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

'T Amerikaans Gewest van Florida Door Ferdinand De Soto Nader Ontdekt en groot deels Bemagtigd : met Privilegie.

Description: Map shows southeastern portion of the North American continent as "Florida," the "Lucaye Ins." off the coast on "Florida" map; on second map, Persia, the Red Sea, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt and Ethiopia. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1695..1715]
Creator: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[17th Century Spanish Carta Excutoria]

Description: Opening page of a 17th century Spanish Baroque Carta executoria, providing geological evidence of aristocratic lineage with no trace of peasant, Jewish or Moorish blood. More than simply asserting one's high standing, such documents exempted the holder from civil suits and taxation. Carta executoria were often ostentatiously illuminated (as here), to suggest the wealth and taste of the grantee. Displays large intricate initial "D" (i.e. Don Carlos, King of Spain from 1665 - 1700) in the form of… more
Date: 1696
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Satirical print of English political figure Hugh Peters c.1600]

Description: Satirical Print of English preacher, political advisor and soldier who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. The engraving, circa. 1600, shows Hugh Peters with a devil on his back with each foot on a stack of books that correspond to church and state while he holds the ties to bags of money that are labeled with "Revenue", "Plunder", "Thimbles" and "Benefices". Symbols of the monarchy and the church appear on the floor by his feet.
Date: [1695..1800]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two Mourners and Hope at Washingtons Grave]

Description: Engraving by Boston printmaker Thomas Clarke showing a man and woman weeping into handkerchiefs in front of the grave of George Washington. Washington's monument includes his face engraved below a cherubim and the epitaph "There is Reft in Heaven" and is set at the foot of a weeping willow. The two figures are being consoled by a figure of Hope, who stands by an anchor and points to heaven.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Clark, Thomas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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