George T. Abell Map Collection

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This cartographic collection was the gift of the estate of the late Midland oilman, George T. Abell. Mr Abell was interested travel, geography, the geology of the petroleum industry, and the history of the Southwest and the maps reflect these as well as other subjects. The collection contains over a hundred maps which range in date from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The collection includes maps of the world, the British Isles, Pacific Ocean, North and South America, The Western Hemisphere, and the United States.

Recent Submissions

United States.

Marchant, J.; Rapkin, J. (c1835)
A new map of America, from the latest authorities.

Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835 (1819)
Bowles's New Pocket Map of the United States of America; the British Possessions of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland with the French and Spanish Territories of Louisiana and Florida . . . 1783. London.

Unknown author (1784)
America divided into north and south with their several subdivisions and the newest discoveries . . . 12th May 1794.

Unknown author (1794)
L'Amerique Septentrionale divisee en ses principales parties, ou sont distingues les uns des autres les Estats suivant quils appartiennent presentement aux Francois, Castillans, Anglois, Suedois, Danois, Hollandois. Tiree des Relations de toutes ces Nations. Par le Sr Sanson . . . Presentee a Monsiegneur le Dauphin par . . . Hubert Iaillot.

Unknown author (1696)
Hammond's continental map of the United States.

Unknown author
Mappe-monde = geo-hydrographique, ou description generale du globe terrestre et aquatique en deux-plans-hemispheres. Ou sont exactement remarquees en general toutes les parties de la terre et de l'eau suivant les relations les plus nouvelles. Par le Sr. Sanson, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy 1687.

Unknown author (1696)
Nieuw Engeland in twee scheeptogten door Kapitein Johan Smith inde iaren 1614 en 1615 be stevend.

Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733; Smith, John, 1580-1631 (c1715)
The western coast of Louisiana and the coast of New Leon. By Thos. Jeffreys Geographer to His Majesty. London, printed for Robt. Sayer . . . 1775.

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771 (1775)
Carte des deux Ameriques, dressee par E. Piton, geographe, eleve de Dufour, Paris, 1837.

Piton, E. C. (E. Constant) (1837)
Typus orbis terrarum, ad imitationem universalis Gerhardi Mercatoris. Cuius secundum tam veterum quam recentiorum supputationem 5400 militaria Germanica ambitus complectitur . . . .

Quad, Matthias, 1557-1613 (1600)
Carte tres curieuse de la Mer du Sud, contenant des remarques nouvelles et tres utiles non seulement sur les ports et iles de cette mer, mais aussy sur les principaux Pays de l'Amerique, tant Septentrionale que meridionale, avec les noms & la route des voyageurs . . . .

Chatelain, Henri Abraham; Gueudeville, Nicolas, approximately 1654-approximately 1721 (1719)
Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598 (1574)
A new general map of America. Drawn from several accurate particular maps and charts, and regulated by astronomical observations.

Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767 (1747)
Typus orbus terrarum.

Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590; Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598 (1571)
Americae sive novi orbis, nove descriptio.

Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598 (1574)
Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant.

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552 (c1544)
A new and exact map of the Dominons of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America, containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina. . . . by Herman Mol geographer.

Moll, Herman, -1732 (1715)
Territory of Kansas and Indian Territory.

Rogers, Henry D. (Henry Darwin), 1808-1866 (1857)
Hispania Nova.

Wytfliet, Corneille (1597)

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