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A chart shewing [sic] the tracks and discoveries in the Pacific ocean made by Capt. Cook and Capt. Clerke in His Majesty's ships Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780.

Description: Map shows the routes taken by Captain James Cook [1728-1779] and Captain Charles Clerke [1741-1779] during Pacific Ocean exploration of the North American coast, several island groups, "New Holland" [Australia], and Asia. Includes notes and dates. Scale not given.
Date: 1780
Creator: Smith, Matthew
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

[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
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