Original Antique Map of the Virgin Islands with Insets of Caribbean Isles, 1787

Name: Original Antique Map of the Virgin Islands with Insets of Caribbean Isles, 1787
Brand: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
SKU: BG-13528-7
Price: 290 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1787
Maker: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Kind: Maps
Size: 41.3 × 26.7 cm (16.3 × 10.5 in)
Condition: Fair. Age-related toning. Original folding line. Few tiny defects affecting image (near folding line). Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: The Lesser Antilles, The West Indies
Reference: BG-13528-7

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 Virgin Islands with insets of nine other Caribbean islands, an original copper engraving by Rigobert Bonne from the Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (Raynal), published in 1787. The title cartouche reads "Supplément pour les Isles Antilles, extrait des Cartes Angloises, par Mr. Bonne Ingénieur-Hydrographe de la Marine", with a scale beneath it.

The upper third of the sheet is a map headed "Les Isles Vierges", running from Puerto Rico on the left past Vieques, St. Thomas, St. John, Tortola and Virgin Gorda to Anegada, with St. Croix, St. Martin and Anguilla shown at the right. Below it, nine small framed maps fill the lower part of the sheet in three rows: Barbuda ("I. de la Barboude"), St. Christopher ("I. St Christophe"), Antigua ("I. Antigoa"), Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados ("I. de la Barbade"), St. Vincent, Grenada ("I. de la Grenade") and Tobago ("I. de Tabago"). Each shows coastal soundings and place names.

Bonne (1727 to 1794) succeeded Bellin as Royal Hydrographer at the Dépôt de la Marine in 1773. The sheet gathers the smaller Antilles that the large Atlas maps had no room for.

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