Our Florida Map Collection & Others
Florida Maps on the Web
University of Florida Digital Collections

Florida Maps on the Web
Touchton Map Collection
Tampa Bay History Center

Holdings at the MaP & Imagery Library
Index to the Florida Historical Map Collections

About the Holdings
The Florida Historical Map Collection is one of the treasures of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History and contains more than 2300 renderings of Florida dating from the mid-1500s to the twentieth century. The earliest original printed map in the collection is Girolamo Ruscelli’s Nueva hispania tabula nova, [Venice, 1561].
Approximately half of the images in the Historical Map Collection are original prints or drawings. The collection also contains facsimiles of maps held at other repositories and duplicated. These reproductions feature items from the National Archives, Library of Congress, Archivo General de Indias (Seville), Public Record Office (London), and other museums and libraries
In our collections you can see examples of such beautiful maps as the hand-colored Abraham Ortelius map of Florida from the Additamentum, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, of 1584, which shows Native American towns mentioned in the de Soto chronicles, or the 1606 Mercator and Hondius map of Virginiae Item et Floridae with its inset of Timucua Indians. The English attack on St. Augustine in 1740 is depicted in a hand-tinted work by Thomas Silver, and you can chart a route along Florida’s coast through Bernard Roman’s Gulf and Windward Pilot of 1794. The works of other significant mapmakers and cartographers, such as Guillaume Delisle, Jacques Nicolas Bellin, Johann Baptist Homann, and Thomas Jefferys, are prominently represented in the collection.
Maps are housed as part of the Map and Imagery Library on the first floor of the George A. Smathers Library.
Additional Examples of Maps
Nueva hispania tabula nova
Girolamo Ruscelli, Venice, 1561 24.5 cm by 18 cm.

La Florida (Additamentum)
Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp, 1584 22.6 cm by 15.5 cm

Map of Florida and ye Great Lakes of Canada
Robert Morden, 1688 12.6 cm by 13.2 cm., with accompanying text

Carte de la Nouvelle Georgie
Jacques Nicholas Bellin, 1764 15 cm by 21.3 cm.

Puente Map of St. Augustine, 1764
Created by Juan Joseph Elixio de la Puente at the time of the Spanish evacuation of St. Augustine at the end of the French & Indian War. Original at the Museo Naval, Madrid.

Rocque Map of St. Augustine, 1788
The official city plan of St. Augustine made by Mariano de la Rocque following the return of Spanish colonists after the end of the American Revolution. Original at the Bureau of Land Management, Washington, D.C.
