An illustrated 66-page guide is included, authored by J. C. Martin, director of the San Jacinto Museum of History Association, and Robert Sidney Martin, director of special collections at Louisiana State University. Contours of Discovery comes in handsome and durable portfolio, and all of the maps are suitable for display or framing. Martin Waldseemueller, Tabula Terre Nova, 1513 Abraham Ortelius, Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, 1570 Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville, Amerique Septentrionale, 1650 Nicolas de Fer, Les Costes aux Environs de la Riviere de Misisipi..., 1705 Guillaume Delisle, Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi..., 1718 Jose Antonio de Alzate y Ramirez, Nuevo Mapa Geografico de la America Septentrional..., 1768 Thomas Jefferys, The Western Coast of Louisiana and The Coast of New Leon, 1775 Alexander von Humboldt, A Map of New Spain..., 1810 John Melish, Map of the United States..., 1816 Stephen Fuller Austin, Mapa Geografico de la Provincia de Texas, 1822 Stephen Fuller Austin, Map of Texas, 1830 David H. Burr, Texas..., 1833 John Arrowsmith, Map of Texas..., 1841 William H. Emory, Map of Texas and the Coutries Adjacent..., 1844 John Disturnell, Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico..., 1847 JacobJacob DeCordova, Map of the State of Texas..., 1849 Charles W. Pressler and A. B. Langermann, Pocket Map of the State of Texas..., 1879 Alexander A. Grant, Railroad and County Map of Texas, 1885 Texas Planning Board Series, Texas Counties, 1840, 1850, 1900, 1930