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Carte reduite des parties connues du globe terrestre : dressée au dépost des Cartes Plans et Journaux de la Marine.

Description: Map shows known extent of six continents; western portion of Nouvelle Hollande [Australia], only portions of northwestern coastline of North America, and southern portion of Greenland. Includes text: Avertissement, notes and dates of discovery. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not noted.
Date: 1755
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

L'Amérique septentrionale.

Description: Map shows major European settlements, colonies, and areas of Native American habitation in North and Central America and the West Indies; Mexico, New Mexico, French Louisiana, coastal Califronia; northwestern portion of continent as "Terre Inconnues"; Hudson and Baffin Bays, Greenland, and surroundings in inset. Inset: [Map of Terres Artiques]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:12,500,000].
Date: 1757
Creator: Cóvens et Mortier
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Figure de la ville de Jerusalem.

Description: Map shows buildings inside Jerusalem. According to its French inscription, this map purports to show how Jerusalem and its environs looked from the time of David, ca. 1010 B.C. until its destruction at the time of Roman Emperor Titus in 70 A.D. The map was intended to help illuminate the third chapter of the Bible book of Nehemia, and it possibly came from a seventeenth century French Huguenot or Swiss Protestant Bible. Relief shown pictorially. Includes legend. Text in French, building names a… more
Date: 1750?
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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