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Antigua in the West Indies America. Laid Down by actual Survey, and engraved by John Luffman, in the years 1787 and 1788. / To His Excellency Major General Sir Thomas Shirley Governor Bart. Captain General & Governor in Chief in and over all His Majestys Leeward Caribee Islands, in America. Chancellor, Vice Admiral & Ordinary of the same. This Map is Dedicated, by his obliged humble Servant, John Luffman.
- 9,500.00€
- John Luffman’s grand map of Antigua, one of the cartographic monuments of the 18th century British West Indies; predicated upon the goldsmith-cartographer’s reconnaissance of the island conducted when it was still one of the world’s leading sugar-slave economies, as well as hosting a major Royal Navy base (then commanded by the future Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson); the map served as…
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ANTIGUA, WEST INDIES / SLAVERY & EMANCIPATION: A New & Improved Map of the Island of Antigua, in the West Indies. Constructed and drawn chiefly from original Materials and most Recent Surveys. By J. Johnson.
- 9,500.00€
- J. JOHNSON. London: Smith, Elder & Co., August 1829. Copper engraving and aquatint with full original wash hand colour, dissected into 6 sections and mounted upon original linen (Very Good, resplendent original colours and gorgeous print quality, just some light toning and minor print transference), 73.5 x 82.5 cm (29 x 32.5 inches) (#70644a). Exceedingly rare – one…
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CUBA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY / COLD WAR: Куба [Kuba]
- 380.00€
- Colour print, 51,5 x 86 cm (20.2 x 33.8 inches), accompanied by an original brochure with an index: 8°, 13 pp., [2 pp.], wrappers with title, stapled. Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).…
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GRENADA – ST. GEORGE’S: “Plan of the Town and Heights and A Survey of the Cay, Carenage and Lagoon of St. George’s Grenada”.
- 8,500.00€
- A grand format original manuscript that is one of the finest and most detailed maps of St. George’s, the capital of Grenada, from the slave-plantation era, the result of a collaboration between Captain William Elliott, James Langley and James Young of the Royal Engineers; drafted shortly after the Napoleonic Wars, when the Grenada lived under the spectre of a possible…
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HAVANA, CUBA: De Stad en Haven van Havana op’t Eÿland Cuba met alle Desselfs Droogtens en Dieptens.
- 3,200.00€
- One of the rarest and most attractive of the great historical sea charts of Havana Harbour, and one which grants a fine rendering of the cityscape of what was then the New World’s most sophisticated metropolis; first published in the mid-18th century by the eminent Amsterdam cartographer Johannes Van Keulen II, but here with the plate re-employed around 1780…
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JAMAICA – PAIR (2) ORIGINAL MSS. VIEWS / SLAVERY / IMMEDIATE POST- EMANCIPATION ERA
- 4,500.00€
- A pair (2) of historically important original manuscript sepia views, depicting 1) the Great House and windmill of Perrins’s Estate, one of Jamaica’s leading sugar plantations, and 2) the St. Dorothy’s (or the ‘Tamarind Tree’) Church, established in 1681, which is today one of the oldest and most culturally significant churches in Jamaica; executed to an unusually high degree…
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Plano de la Ciudad de Santiago de Cuba
- 4,800.00€
- A great rarity of Cuban cartography, being a city plan of Santiago de Cuba, drafted and lithographed locally by Louis François Delmés, the French émigré portraitist and miniaturist who was the father of academic painting in eastern Cuba; the map, executed in the artist’s signature resplendent colour palette, portrays Cuba’s second city during the island’s last ‘sugar boom’, showcasing Santiago…
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ST. LUCIA / DOMINICA – ORIGINAL MSS. MAPS: “Gros Islet Bay St. Lucia.” [and] “Prince Ruperts Bay Dominica.”
- 4,500.00€
- A stellar pair of original manuscript sea charts, on a single sheet, being surveys by James Langley, the Master of the ‘HMS Scamander’, showing 1) Gros Islet Bay, a critical fortified harbour near the northern point of St. Lucia that was chosen by the famed Admiral George Rodney a key base of the Royal Navy; and 2) Prince Rupert’s Bay…
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ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS / CHARLOTTE AMALIA HARBOR / JEWS IN THE WEST INDIES: West Indies – Virgin Islands. Harbour of St. Thomas surveyed by Lieut. G. B. Lawrence, R.N. 1851… Corrections by Captain Nares, H.M.S. Challenger, 1873.
- 620.00€
- An attractive large format sea chart of Charlotte Amalie Harbor, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, predicated upon detailed surveys made by Britain’s Royal Navy in 1851, but here updated to 1912, only five years before the Danish Virgin Islands were sold to the United States, featuring a wealth of details on the town and its environs including major public institutions, Jewish…
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The Pleasant Isle of Barbados
- 380.00€
- A charming post war pictorial map of Barbados Colour lithography, 63 x 50 cm (24.8 x 19.7 inches) (soft folds, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).
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WEST INDIES – HISPANIOLA – HAITI – DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Carte physique et politique de l’Ile d’Haïti / Dressée par Mr. A. Poujol, Ancien Chargé d’Affaires d’Haïti á Santo Domingo et Ancien Membre des Commission mixte de délimitation de 1899 et 1901 et Mr. H. Thomasset, Ingénieur de l’Ecole Centrale de Paris, Officier de la Légion d’Honneur. Publiée sous le Ministère de Mr. T. Laleu, Sécretaire d’Etat aux Départments de l’Instrucion Publique et de la Justice, Port-au-Prince, 1908. / Nouvelle édition rectifiée 1912.
- 4,800.00€
- Extremely rare - a monumental, brilliantly colour lithographed work that is by far and away the most accurate and detailed map of Hispaniola to date, and one of the great achievements of cartography of the early 20th century in the Americas, the result of a collaboration between Alexandre Poujol, a leading Haitian jurist and stateman, and Henri Thomasset, a Frenchman…
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