Maps - World
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
George T. Abell Map Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 165
Scope and Contents
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. Notably, the collection also contains a 1573 copy of Abraham Ortelius's Theatrvm orbis terrarvm, considered by some as...
Dates:
1550-1840
Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula. Auctore Nicolao Visscher. Lower left: "N.P. Berchem invent.", 1765
Item
Identifier: MC 66
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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. Notably, the collection also contains a 1573 copy of Abraham Ortelius's Theatrvm orbis terrarvm, considered by some as...
Dates:
1765
Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula. Auctore Nicolao Visscher
Digital Record
Identifier: MC 66
Dates:
1690