7” within the Jean Louis Berlandier Papers, 1813-1847 (WA MSS S-302). W.Ī circa 1828 copy of a circa 1806 route map attributed to Walker, contained in “Voyage au Mexique: Itineraires, ports cotes, baies, etc. Texas, Route de Nacogdoches au Rio Trinidad, J. View Full-size Image Juan Pedro Walker (1781-ca. The area gradually expanded westward to include San Antonio and eventually all the territory now included within the State of Texas.Ĭourtesy of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. The Spanish geographic use of the word Tejas was broad and indefinite, but initially it applied to the Neches-Angelina river valleys, where the southwestern Caddoan tribes of the Hasinai Confederacy lived. Nicolás Lafora’s and Joseph de Urrutia’s Mapa de toda la Frontera geographically reveals Spain’s imagination of Texas during the eighteenth century, with drawn lines enclosing “Provencia De Los Tejas,” or land of the Tejas, stretching from western Louisiana through the heart of East Texas to the San Antonio area. Believed to be an 1816 copy of a 1771 edition map. Pen-and-ink and watercolor manuscript, 26 x 50 in. Mapa de toda la Frontera de los Dominios del Rey en la America Septentrional… (ca. View Full-size Image Nicolás de Lafora (ca. Perhaps most infamously, this map depicts La Salle’s misplacement of the mouth of the Mississippi River, some 600 miles west of its true location.Ĭourtesy of the University of Texas at Arlington Library, Special Collections, #0568 142/7 Disc 81. Cartographically, Coronelli’s map draws from information obtained by noted French explorers Louis Jolliet, Jacques Marquette, and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. The title cartouche depicts gods blessing European expansion, and vignettes of America’s first peoples and other creatures are featured throughout. Typical of Coronelli’s style, the map is richly embellished. Shown here is Coronelli’s cornerstone map of North America, published in 1688. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was one of Italy’s most famous and greatest cartographers and served as French King Louis XIV’s royal map and globe-maker. (Venice: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 1688). View Full-size Image Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718)Īmerica Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte sin all Anno 1688Įngraving, 24 x 34.25 in. Yet many other characteristics, such as the delineation of the Gulf of Mexico, appeared exceptionally accurate for the time.Ĭourtesy of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division Digital ID: g3200m gct00003 Many of the place names throughout North America reflected the recent Spanish explorations by Coronado, De Soto, Moscoso and others, but they could not be located with any precision. Ortelius’ 1570 map of America is derived from maps made by the great Dutch scientific cartographer Gerhard Mercator. The book used copper engravings, which greatly increased the detail and delicacy of lettering over the earlier woodcut process. The translated title of this landmark 1570 map is “America or the New World, Newly Described.” Produced in Antwerp by map collector-businessman Abraham Ortelius, it is one of fifty-three maps he published that year in a single book entitled, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (“Theater of the World”), which is considered the first modern atlas. In the Pacific, three ships stream through the water, their sails filled with imaginary winds.View Full-size Image Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598)Īmericae Sive Novie Orbis Nova DescriptioĮngraving, hand-colored, 14 x 19.5 in. In the ocean, off what is now Argentina, a sea monster lurks. The title is decorated with the key-like geometric decorations common to the maps in Ortelius' atlas, with griffins sitting atop the cartouche and a garland draped below it. South America is a squat landmass, with an extension in the southwest that would disappear in later editions of the map. To the north, North America somewhat resembles the continent we know today, except the area near Alaska is undefined and the northwest bulges to the east. North and South America stretch across this single hemisphere map. Additionally, there are several states of the map this is a second state. It went through three major revisions to the plates, as noted in Van Den Broecke this is an example of the first edition. Ortelius' Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio is without a doubt one of the most recognized and influential maps of the Americas from the sixteenth century and it had a profound influence on contemporary cartography. Tomado de Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.: The map, which shows both North and South America, featured in the first edition of Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world.
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