Original Engraving of the West Indies, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Caribbean, 1780

Name: Original Engraving of the West Indies, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Caribbean, 1780
Brand: Rigobert Bonne
SKU: BG-13619-7
Price: 435 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1780
Maker: Rigobert Bonne
Kind: Maps
Size: 25 × 38.5 cm (9.8 × 15.2 in)
Condition: Good. Good; suitable for framing. Borders colored by hand. Some creases but not strong or disturbing. Most antiquarian maps and prints are subject to some normal aging due to use and time which is not obtrusive unless otherwise stated.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Mexico, The West Indies
Reference: BG-13619-7

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 Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in a hand-colored copper engraving by Rigobert Bonne, dated 1780. The title is "Les Isles Antilles et le Golfe du Mexique", and the sheet is numbered 25. It was drawn for Guillaume Raynal's Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, the atlas that accompanied his Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Europeens dans les Deux Indes.

The map runs from Florida and Louisiana in the north to the Spanish Main and Venezuela in the south, and from Mexico and Central America on the west to Barbados at the eastern edge of the Lesser Antilles. Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico are outlined in yellow, green and pink, and the islands of the Lesser Antilles are shown in a chain curving toward South America. Hatched lines across the open sea carry arrows for winds and currents, and shoals and dangers are noted. An inset in the upper right shows Bermuda ("Les Bermudes"), with a scale and the harbor marked.

Bonne was a prominent French mapmaker of the later eighteenth century, and this sheet shows the West Indian colonies of the rival European powers as they stood in 1780.

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