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L'Amerique meridionale: Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les Plus recens

Description: Hand-drawn color map of South America in 1708. Countries are shaded in different colors and some paths are marked in color. Bodies of water and geographic features are noted, with relief shown pictorially.
Date: 1722
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

A new and accurate chart of the West Indies with the adjacent coasts of North and South America drawn from the best authorities, assisted by the most approved modern maps & charts, and regulated by astronoml. observations

Description: Map shows outheastern portion of North America, the West Indies and islands of the Caribbean area, Mexico and Central America, the northeast portion of South America; explorers' routes through the West Indies; Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and New Mexico. Includes notes. Scale not given. Map appeared in John Harris' Navigantium, or, a complete collection of voyages and travels.
Date: [1720..1740]
Creator: Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A New and Accurate Chart of the West Indies with the Adjacent Coasts of North and South America

Description: This map shows the West Indies as well as the surrounding portions of Central America, southern North America, and northern South America. Several U.S. states and countries are outlined in color and labeled. Bodies of water and geographical features are also marked (with relief shown pictorially). There are several text notations around the map with contextual information about the areas and time period. Scale [ca. 1:12,750,000].
Date: 1720
Creator: Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Carte d'Amerique : dressée pour l'usage du roy.

Description: Map shows geographical demarcation line declared by the Papal Bull of Pope Alexander VI, assigning new world territories to the Spanish and Portuguese; political divisions for North and South America, major cities, and areas of Native American habitation; western coasts of Europe and Africa to the east; California, French Louisiana, New Spain, New England, islands of the Caribbean. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:31,000,000].
Date: 1722
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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