Cuba, Hayti, Santo Domingo and Leeward Islands, Antique Caribbean Map, 1859

Name: Cuba, Hayti, Santo Domingo and Leeward Islands, Antique Caribbean Map, 1859
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12685-1-80
Price: 325 USD
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Date: 1859
Kind: Maps
Size: 54 × 37 cm (21.3 × 14.6 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition. Light overall age toning consistent with period. Minor scattered foxing and occasional light handling marks, mainly visible in the margins. Original central folds as issued. No major tears or losses.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti & Dominican Republic), The Lesser Antilles, The West Indies
Reference: BG-12685-1-80

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

Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico and the Leeward Islands on a three-panel sheet from The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography, published by W. G. Blackie in 1859. The sheet is an engraved map with original hand color, the islands outlined by colonial power.

The page is divided into three horizontal panels. At the top, "The Island of Cuba" runs the full width of the sheet, with its coastline, ports, rivers and mountains finely engraved and the Isle of Pines at the foot. In the middle panel, "Hayti or Santo Domingo and Porto Rico", Hispaniola is shown with the two states separated by a boundary line and Porto Rico set to the right. The lower panel, "The Leeward or North Caribbee Islands", scatters the Virgin Islands and the Lesser Antilles across the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, with a color key naming the powers that held each island.

Together the three panels give a compact picture of the Greater and northern Lesser Antilles in the middle of the nineteenth century, when Cuba and Porto Rico were Spanish and the smaller islands were divided among European powers.

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