Antique Map of Coiba Island, Panama, South America, C.1740

Name: Antique Map of Coiba Island, Panama, South America, C.1740
Brand: Guillaume Delisle
SKU: BG-11289
Price: 380 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1740
Maker: Guillaume Delisle
Kind: Maps
Size: 25.3 × 40.1 cm (10 × 15.8 in)
Condition: Good. Very good, please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Central America
Reference: BG-11289

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 eastern side of Coiba Island, called Quibo on the plan, off the Pacific coast of Panama, in an original copper engraving lettered "Plan de la Partie Orientale de l'Isle de Quibo", with the page number "pag. 178" at the upper right. The plan is dated about 1740 in the listing and is connected in the old description to George Anson's circumnavigation.

The island's shoreline fills the top of the sheet, drawn as a belt of wooded land cut by a wide bay. Soundings of the water are printed in fathoms, and the notes mark the shoreline around Port des Dames, where the bottom is soft sand and mud, together with salt lagoons, fresh water and fishermen's huts. Offshore, the small islands of Quiveta and Canales are drawn, and a compass rose with rhumb lines crosses the open water. A scale of three leagues is given at the lower left.

Coiba lies in the Gulf of Chiriqui, and its sheltered anchorages made it a useful stopping place for ships on the Pacific side of Central America.

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