Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis avstralis. qve est : Brasilia, Caribana, Gviana regnũm noũũm, Castilia del Oro, Nicaragva, insũlae Antillas et Perv. Et sub Tropico Capricorni, Chile, Rio della Plata, Patagonṽ, & Fretṽ Magellanicv̄
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Map from the Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)"This folding map of South America and the West Indies, printed on two separate sheets, with uncut margins, was engraved for the second edition of the fourth part of Hulsius' collection of voyages, which consists altogether of 26 parts. The "Vierte Schiffart" (Fourth voyage) is an account of Ulrich Schmidel's voyage to Brazil and the Rio de la Plata from 1534 to 1554. In this second edition of the map, three islands have been inserted below the bottom border of the lower map, with the name "Francisci Draco Ins." These islands, now the Queen Elizabeth Islands, had appeared on maps since Hakluyt published a new map of America in his Latin edition of Pietro Martire d'Anghiera's De Orbe Nouo Decades Octo (The eight decades of Peter Martyr d'Anghera) in 1587. During his passage through the Strait of Magellan, Drake had made the discovery that Tierra del Fuego (Terra del Fogo) was an island. Several new names were added to this edition of the map along the west coast of South America; the plate mark "No. 2" was also added in the lower left corner of the lower map." World Digital Library.
Codex Mendoza
The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec Codex created around the year 1541 and contains history of Aztec society and daily life prior to the invasion of the Spanish. Don Antonio de Medoza, viceroy of New Spain, commissioned and supervised its creation. The authors/artists are unknown/unnamed, but some believe that Aztec painter Francisco Gualpuyogualcal and Nahuatl-Spanish interpreter Juan González were two of the authors. After its completion, the Spanish fleet that set off to carry the text across the Atlantic was invaded by French Pirates. The codex was seized and passed through many hands before landing in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (“Codex Mendoza, Foundation of Tenochtitlan,” VistasGallery, accessed September 9, 2025, https://vistasgallery.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/1690).
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Spanish Documents Concerning English Voyages to the Caribbean, 1527-1568. Selected from the Archives of the Indies at Seville byCall Number: G161 .H2 2nd ser. no.62(London: Hakluyt Society, 1929)
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The English Conquest of Jamaica; an account of what happened in the island of Jamaica, from May 20 of the year 1655, when the English laid siege to it, up to July 3 of the year 1656, by Captain Julian de Castilla byCall Number: 942 R88 ser.3 v.34 no.1-5 ANNEX(London, 1923)
