An account of the first discovery, and natural history of Florida : with a particular detail of the several expeditions and descents made on that coast
An 1763 London account of Florida's discovery and natural history, written by William Roberts and published by Thomas Jefferys for an English readership interested in the colony. The pictures are engraved charts of the Gulf coast, including Pensacola, St Joseph's Bay and the bays near Mobile, drawn with soundings, compass roses and place names. A designer could take their fine hatched shorelines, sparse lettering and antique nautical map conventions as a model for period cartography.
