Rare French Colonial America Map, Jamaica Barbados Carolina, c.1719

Name: Rare French Colonial America Map, Jamaica Barbados Carolina, c.1719
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13755-4
Price: 1450 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1719
Kind: Maps
Size: 44.2 × 54.5 cm (17.4 × 21.5 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition with age-related toning, fold lines, and occasional minor spotting consistent with early 18th century paper. Strong engraved impression with attractive overall preservation. Minor marginal wear and handling marks consistent with age.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Bermuda, Canada, Jamaica, The Lesser Antilles, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia
Reference: BG-13755-4

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

French map of England's Atlantic colonies, engraved in 1719 as a single sheet that combines a title, several regional maps and long columns of descriptive text. The engraved title announces a map describing the islands and lands the English possess in North America, in particular Jamaica, Barbados, New England, Bermuda, Carolina, Pennsylvania and Newfoundland. The sheet is an original engraving printed in black.

The sheet is organized around a large map of Jamaica at the top, with a titled cartouche, "Carte de la Jamaique", and a smaller map of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico beside it. Around the edges sit separate maps of Barbados, Bermuda, New England, the Carolina coast ("Nouvelle Carte de la Caroline"), Virginia with Pennsylvania, and Newfoundland. French text fills the spaces between them and describes each colony's geography, products, trade and settlement, so the sheet works as both a set of maps and a short printed geography.

Maps of this kind were made for readers who wanted an overview of English possessions overseas, and the Carolina and Chesapeake sections are early printed views of the southern colonies as they stood in the first decades of the eighteenth century.

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