Jamaica – Original Antique Island Map by Rigobert Bonne, c.1780

Name: Jamaica – Original Antique Island Map by Rigobert Bonne, c.1780
Brand: Rigobert Bonne
SKU: BG-14105-39
Price: 415 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1780
Maker: Rigobert Bonne
Kind: Maps
Size: 26 × 41 cm (10.2 × 16.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition. Light age toning and minor handling wear consistent with 18th-century copperplate engraving. Original centerfold as issued. Clean impression with strong detail; margins ample for framing.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Jamaica
Reference: BG-14105-39

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

Jamaica in a copper engraving by Rigobert Bonne, circa 1780, titled "Carte de l'Isle de la Jamaïque," credited "Par M. Bonne, Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine." The sheet is printed in black without color, and the island is the sole subject of the plate.

The whole island is drawn from west to east with its mountainous spine rendered in heavy hachured shading, centered on the Blue Mountains range at the east. Parishes and counties are lettered across it, including a Surrey and a Middlesex division, and the coast is cut by bays and ports, with Kingston, Port Royal and the Palisadoes at the south and Montego Bay on the northwest coast. Rivers run from the hills to the sea, and the sea is left blank apart from a few soundings and capes. Scale bars at the upper right give Italian miles, English miles, common French leagues and marine leagues, a good sign that the sheet was meant for readers across Europe.

Bonne was hydrographer to the French navy at the Dépôt de la Marine in Paris, succeeding Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. Jamaica was then one of Britain's most valuable sugar colonies, and the island is shown here in careful detail from French sources.

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