Antique Map of the Caribbean Island of St Kitts, ca.1750

Name: Antique Map of the Caribbean Island of St Kitts, ca.1750
Brand: Guillaume Delisle
SKU: PCT-57917
Price: 805 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1750
Maker: Guillaume Delisle
Kind: Maps
Size: 25 × 36 cm (9.8 × 14.2 in)
Condition: Good. Given age. A few very light crinkles. Original middle fold as issued. Left edge of the image faintly soiled. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: The Lesser Antilles, The West Indies
Reference: PCT-57917

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

Carte de l'Isle St. Christophe, an original copper engraving by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, made to serve the Histoire Générale des Voyages and dating from about 1750. The title sits in a scroll cartouche at the upper right, with the credit "Par M. B. Ing. de la Marine", and a second cartouche at the upper left holds the scale of common French leagues.

The island of St. Kitts is drawn in plan, long and narrow, with a southeastern peninsula and a rounded pond near its tip. Its mountain spine is drawn in hachures, with rivers running to the coast on both sides. The parishes are lettered across the island, among them Christ Church, St. John and St. Anne, with the old French quarters and the main towns on the coast. Anchorages, capes and fortifications are lettered around the shore with soundings, and rhumb lines radiate across the sheet, with the volume and page of the book set below the border.

Bellin (1703 to 1772) was a French hydrographer of the Navy who produced maps over a career of more than fifty years, notably of maritime interest. St. Kitts was divided between France and England in the seventeenth century and was a key sugar island.

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