Detailed Antique Map of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean

Name: Detailed Antique Map of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13252
Price: 1050 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: circa 1722
Maker: Covens & Mortier
Kind: Maps
Size: 65 × 55.5 cm (25.6 × 21.9 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Original/contemporary outline color. General age-related toning. Shows some soiling and wear, mainly in margins. Blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Places: The Lesser Antilles, The West Indies
Reference: BG-13252

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 French Antilles from Guadeloupe in the north to Grenada in the south, an original antique map titled "Carte des Antilles Francoises et des Isles Voisines", published in Amsterdam by Covens & Mortier around 1722. This is the Amsterdam edition of a French original, and the cartouche credits the compilation to Guillaume De l'Isle, drawn from the manuscript memoirs of the engineer Petit. The sheet is an engraving with original outline color.

The islands are strung down the sheet in three groups. At the top are Guadeloupe with Grande Terre, Marie Galante and the Saintes, followed by Martinique at the center, then Sainte Lucie, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Bequia, Mustique, Canouan, Union Island) with Grenada at the foot, and Barbados to the east. Coastlines are tinted in pink, green, yellow and purple, and the bays, capes and settlements are lettered along the shores in dense, tiny script. A compass rose sits in the open sea, a long printed note on the Antilles fills the lower right, and a scale bar runs beneath it.

The map shows the Lesser Antilles as seen by French navigators and colonists in the early eighteenth century, when Guadeloupe and Martinique were the core of France's sugar colonies in the Caribbean.

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