Antique Caribbean Map, Jamaica Cuba Saint-Domingue, Tardieu, c.1775

Name: Antique Caribbean Map, Jamaica Cuba Saint-Domingue, Tardieu, c.1775
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13755-3
Price: 1115 USD
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Date: 1775
Kind: Maps
Size: 49.9 × 52.7 cm (19.6 × 20.7 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition for age with a strong, dark impression and attractive original hand coloring. Original center fold as issued. Minor age-related toning and occasional light spotting consistent with eighteenth-century paper. Wide margins.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti & Dominican Republic), Jamaica, The West Indies
Reference: BG-13755-3

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

The islands of Jamaica, Cuba and Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean, a map titled "Carte des Isles de la Jamaïque et de St. Domingue", published in Paris around 1775. It is an original copper engraving with hand-colored outlines in blue, green, yellow and pink. The imprint reads "Tardieu sculp." with the draftsman's credit "Andre scrip.".

The sheet shows the western end of Cuba at the upper left, with its long southern coast and the keys and shoals along it, and the Cayman Islands to the south and the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos at the top right. Jamaica lies at the lower left, the island of Saint-Domingue (modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic) runs across the center to the right, and Tortuga and the Gonâve island are marked. The coasts are lined with place names, bays and soundings, and a table of scales in several leagues and miles stands at the lower left. The title is set in a ruled box at the lower right.

The map was made for French readers at a time when Saint-Domingue was France's richest Caribbean colony, while Jamaica was held by Britain and Cuba by Spain.

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