L'isle De La Martinique Caribbean Copper Engraving Original Handcoloring, 1704

Name: L'isle De La Martinique Caribbean Copper Engraving Original Handcoloring, 1704
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13618-25
Price: 695 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1704
Kind: Maps
Size: 27 × 39.5 cm (10.6 × 15.6 in)
Condition: Good. Good; suitable for framing. Some light creases and dirt due to handling. Colored by hand at the time of publication. Most antiquarian maps and prints are subject to some normal aging due to use and time which is not obtrusive unless otherwise stated.
Period: Colonial America
Places: The Lesser Antilles, The West Indies
Reference: BG-13618-25

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

Martinique in a copper-engraved map titled "Isle de la Martinique", from Nicolas de Fer's Atlas Curieux, published in Paris in 1704 and dated 1704 in the cartouche. The sheet is an original engraving with hand color. The title cartouche gives the Paris imprint of de Fer.

The island is drawn with east at the top, so that the Atlantic, lettered "Ocean sous nom de Mer du Nord", lies along the upper edge and "Mer des Caribes" at the foot. Relief is shown in pictorial hills and mountains, with woods, rivers, bays and offshore islets, and settlements and forts are marked along the coast. An extensive numbered key at lower right lists more than sixty places, including towns, churches, forts and anchorages. A compass rose marks the orientation at upper right, and a scale of leagues and the latitude are given along the lower margin.

The sheet is numbered "129" at the upper right corner. It shows the French colony at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

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