Antique Map of Guadeloupe with Les Saintes, Grand Bourg and La Désirade, c.1780

Name: Antique Map of Guadeloupe with Les Saintes, Grand Bourg and La Désirade, c.1780
Brand: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
SKU: PCT-61575
Price: 315 USD
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Date: 1780
Maker: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Kind: Maps
Size: 26 × 38 cm (10.2 × 15 in)
Condition: Good. Given age. Slight discoloration of paper. Light offsetting. Original middle fold as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: The Lesser Antilles
Reference: PCT-61575

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

Les Isles de la Guadeloupe, de Marie Galante, de la Désirade, et celles des Saintes, Colonie Françoise dans les Antilles, an original copper engraving by the French royal hydrographer Rigobert Bonne, dating from about 1780. The sheet is uncolored, with the title set in a plain box at the top left.

The main island of Guadeloupe fills the left of the sheet, drawn as the two wings of Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre, divided by the narrow channel at the top. Bays, headlands, rivers and settlements are lettered around the coast, and the hills of Basse-Terre are drawn in hachures. Marie-Galante lies at the lower right, with Les Saintes (Isles des Saintes) in a group below Guadeloupe and La Désirade as a long island at the upper right. Scales in French leagues run along the foot, and the map has a ruled border without a cartouche or compass rose.

Bonne succeeded Jacques Bellin as Royal Cartographer to France at the Dépôt de la Marine in 1773. His maps are known for clear, practical detail, with coastal regions and ports at the center of the work and decoration kept to a minimum.

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