Latin American Materials in UNT Special Collections: West Indies/Caribbean

Overview

The sources related to the West Indies and the Caribbean are listed below, sorted according to the following categories/countries:

Description and Travel - Maps - Voyages and Discoveries - Cuba - Dominican Republic - Haiti - Jamaica - Saint Thomas

Description and Travel

Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849 by Robert Baird
Call Number: 917.2 B16
Publication Date: 1850
A New Survey of the West-Indies, or the English American, His Travel by Sea and Land: Containing a Journal of Three Thousand and Three Hundred Miles within the Main Land of America . . . with a grammar, or Some Few Rudiments of the Indian Tongue, Called P by Thomas Gage
Call Number: F1211 .G15
Publication Date: 1677
Personal Reminiscences of the Caribbean Sea and the Spanish Main by Francis Russell Hart
Call Number: 917.29 H251
Publication Date: 1914
An Account of the Expedition to Carthagena: With Explanatory Notes and Observations by Sir Charles Knowles
Call Number: F2272.5 .A15
Publication Date: 1743
The Geography of America and the West Indies by George Long
Call Number: 917 L851
Publication Date: 1841

Maps

Carte reduite du golphe du Méxique et des isles de l'Amérique: dressée au Depost des cartes et plans de la marine pour le service des vaisseaux du roy by Jacques Nicolas Bellin
Call Number: G4390 1774 .B44 1774
Publication Date: 1774
Mexico and West Indies by J. Smith
Call Number: G4410 1824 .S64 1824
Publication Date: 1824

Voyages and Discoveries

Christopher Columbus: His Life, His Works, His Remains, as Revealed by Original Printed and Manuscript Records, Together with an Essay on Peter Martyr of Anghera and Bartolomé de las Casas, the First Historians of America by John Boyd Thacher
Call Number: 921 C717t
Publication Date: 1903-04

Cuba

The Story of Evangelina Cisneros (Evangelina Betancourt Cosio y Cisneros) by Evangelina Cisneros
Call Number: F1786 .C57
Publication Date: 1898
Cuba in War Time by Richard Harding Davis
Call Number: F1786 .D26
Publication Date: 1897
From Flag to Flag; a Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South during the War, in Mexico, and in Cuba by Eliza Ripley
Call Number: 921 R482
Publication Date: 1889
Mexico, Guatemala, and the West Indies by T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel) Bradford
Call Number: G4410 1835 .B72 1835
Publication Date: 1835
Les costes aux environs de la Rivière de Misisipi by Nicolas de Fer
Call Number: G4042 .M5 1705 .F47
Publication Date: 1705
Le vieux Méxique, ou, Nouvelle Espagne avec les costes de la Floride: faisant-partie de l'Amérique septentrionale.Paris: Chez l'auteur dans l'Isle du Palais sur le quay de l'Orloge à la sphere royale avec privil du roy, 1702 by Nicolas de Fer
Call Number: G4410 1702 .F47 1702
Publication Date: 1702

Dominican Republic

Santo Domingo: Past and Present, with a Glance at Hayti by Samuel Hazard
Call Number: F1901 .H43
Publication Date: 1873

Haiti

The History and Present Condition of St. Domingo by Jonathan Brown, M.D.
Call Number: F1921 .B76 1837
Publication Date: 1837

Jamaica

Journal of a West-India Proprietor, Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
Call Number: 917.292 L587j
Publication Date: 1834

Saint Thomas

A Historical Account of St. Thomas, W.I., with Its Rise and Progress in Commerce; Missions and Churches; Climate and Its Adaptation to Invalids; Geological Structure; Natural History, and Botany; and Incidental Notices of St. Croix and St. Johns; Slave In by John P. Knox
Call Number: F2105 .K74 1852
Publication Date: 1852

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