Antique 1683 Map of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean by Mallet

Name: Antique 1683 Map of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean by Mallet
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13792
Price: 425 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1683
Kind: Maps
Size: 20.6 × 14 cm (8.1 × 5.5 in)
Period: Colonial America
Places: Hispaniola (Haiti & Dominican Republic), The West Indies, Puerto Rico
Reference: BG-13792

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, a small copper engraving by Allain Manesson Mallet from his Description de l'Univers, published in Paris in 1683. The sheet is hand colored and lettered "I. d'Hispaniola et P.to Rico" on a ribbon banner at the top, with the running head "De l'Amerique" and "Figure CXXXIX" at the head of the page.

The two islands lie in a sea marked "Mer du Nort", with Hispaniola in yellow on the left and Puerto Rico, labeled "I. de P.to Rico", at the right. Coastal names and a few mountain ranges are engraved on the land, and a scattering of smaller islands lies to the north and east, among them Mayaguana, Saona and Mona. Three groups of sailing ships fill the open water, firing at one another with clouds of gun smoke: one pair at the upper left, another at the right and a third at the bottom.

Mallet, a French military engineer and teacher of mathematics, filled the several volumes of the Description de l'Univers with small, lively maps of this kind, each decorated with ships, figures and sea creatures.

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