Old Map of the island of Saint Christopher or St. Kitts in the Caribbean, c.1765

Name: Old Map of the island of Saint Christopher or St. Kitts in the Caribbean, c.1765
Brand: Guillaume Delisle
SKU: PC-58957
Price: 480 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1765
Maker: Guillaume Delisle
Kind: Maps
Technique: Engraved
Size: 26 × 39.8 cm (10.2 × 15.7 in)
Condition: Good. Given age. Light crease top left. Original middle fold as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: The Lesser Antilles, The West Indies
Reference: PC-58957

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 island of Saint Christopher, or St. Kitts, in the Leeward Islands, titled "Carte de l'Isle de St. Christophe", an original copper engraving by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin with hand outline color, published around 1765. The sheet comes from Le Petit Atlas Maritime and is numbered "Tome I. N° 83" at the upper right.

The island is drawn in plan, long and narrow with a thin southeastern peninsula, with the central mountain range shown as a ridge of brown hachures. Coastal parishes and settlements are named around the shore, with capes, bays and anchorages lettered along the coast, and the interior is crossed by the lines of the parishes. The title is set in a rococo cartouche at the upper right, framed by leaves and flowers in color, and a second cartouche at the lower left holds the scale in "lieues communes de France". A diagonal line marks the meridian.

St. Kitts was a major sugar island that was divided between French and English settlers in the seventeenth century, and the chart shows the island before the final French loss in 1763 faded from use.

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