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[Decree from Diego de Lasaga]

Description: Decree from Diego de Lasaga citing a previous decree that asks for donations from all subjects in America, one peso from freed men, and two from Spaniards; these donations are to go towards sustaining the war effort against England. In this decree de Lasaga explains how this process is to be done.
Date: 1781-04~
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

Carte de l'Océan Pacifique au Nord de l'Equateur, et des Côtes qui le bornent des deux côtés : |b d'aprés les dernieres Découvertes faites par les Espagnols, les Russes et les Anglois, jusqu'en 1780.

Description: Map shows settlements and routes of Captains Cook and Clarke along coastlines of northeastern Asia and northwestern North America; route of Spanish galleons between Manilla and Acapulco. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1781
Creator: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Adam & Eve frontispiece etching]

Description: Etching print included as the frontispiece of a unknown volume printed in 1780. The plate includes a classic biblical image of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden at the moment the snake offers the fruit to Eve. The image includes excellent details of various animals scattered around the pint such as a frog, various insects, birds and a partially hidden cow laying in the tree line.
Date: 1780~
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Amérique septentrionale.

Description: Map shows major cities along the coasts of North America, Central America, and the Antilles. Native American habitation in some areas of North America are also noted. Hand colored. Scale [ca. 1:37,500,000]. Map comes from Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre [Atlas of all known parts of the globe] published in 1780.
Date: 1780
Creator: Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Amérique septentrionale.

Description: Map shows major French, English and Spanish settlements on the North American continent, Central America, and the islands of the Caribean. Scale [ca. 1:34,500,000]. Map comes from Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre [Atlas of all known parts of the globe] by Guillaume Raynal.
Date: 1780
Creator: Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

L'Ancien monde et le nouveau en deux hemispheres.

Description: Map shows North America, South America, and part of Oceania in the western hemisphere and Europe, Asia, Africa, and the remainder of Oceania in the eastern hemisphere. Map is from the author's Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre [Atlas of All Known Parts of the Globe]. Scale [ca. 1:100,000,000].
Date: 1780
Creator: Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Carte d'une partie de l'Amérique Séptentrionale: qui contient partie de la Nle. Espagne, et de la Louisiane, pour servir aux voyages au tour du monde et vers les deux pôles.

Description: Map shows late eighteenth century geography, towns, and forts in late eighteenth century Mexico. Notes about Native American tribes are also present. The route taken by Monsieur de Pagès while traveling through "Province de los Texas" on a journey from New Orleans to Acapulco is, also, marked. Relief shown pictorially. No scale noted.
Date: 1780?/1789?
Creator: Pagès, Monsieur de, (Pierre Marie Francois), 1748-1793
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Carte du golphe du Méxique et des isles Antilles, reduite de la grande carte angloise de Popple.

Description: Map shows inland settlements of coastal lands of the North, Central, and South Americas along the Gulf of Mexico; Gulf and Pacific coasts of New Spain; islands and ship channels of the Caribbean and Atlantic areas including the West Indies and Bermuda. Includes text and color key to European possessions; key to rivers in the Gulf of Panama. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Scale not given.
Date: 1780
Creator: Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Carte du golphe du Méxique et des isles Antilles: reduite de la grande carte angloise de Popple.

Description: Map showing inland settlements of coastal lands of the North, Central, and South Americas along the Gulf of Mexico; Gulf and Pacific coasts of New Spain; islands and ship channels of the Caribbean and Atlantic areas including the West Indies and Bermuda. Includes text and color key to European possessions; key to rivers in the Gulf of Panama. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Scale not given.
Date: 1780
Creator: Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773
Location: None
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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