Old 18th Century Composite Map of Key Caribbean Islands with Descriptive Texts

Name: Old 18th Century Composite Map of Key Caribbean Islands with Descriptive Texts
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13618-1
Price: 875 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: circa 1702
Kind: Maps
Size: 54 × 61.5 cm (21.3 × 24.2 in)
Condition: Good. Two small pieces of tape on the reverse. General age-related toning, a few stains and small tears outside the plate mark or image. Please study image carefully. Vibrant colors.
Places: The West Indies
Reference: BG-13618-1

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

A composite sheet of the British islands of the West Indies and Bermuda, attributed to the Homann firm of Nuremberg and printed in Latin and German. The title, set in an ornate cartouche at the upper right, reads "Dominia Anglorum in praecipuis Insulis Americae ut sunt Insula S. Christophori, Antegoa, Iamaica, Barbados, nec non Insulae Bermudes vel Sommers dictae", with the German, "Die Englische Colonie-Lander auf den Insuln von America".

Five island maps are placed in colored borders around the title. St. Christopher (St. Kitts) is at the upper left, Antigua ("Insula Antego") fills the left-center, Bermuda ("Insula Bermudos") runs along the lower left, Barbados is at the right, drawn with its parishes in colored outline, and Jamaica lies along the foot. Each island has its own compass, scale of English miles and legend, and several are accompanied by columns of descriptive text in the margins.

The sheet shows the English colonies of the Caribbean and the Atlantic in a single view. The Homann firm, founded by Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremberg about 1702, became the most important map publisher in Germany in the eighteenth century and was continued after his death in 1724 as Homann Heirs.

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