Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

Selection of Rare and Antique Maps recently added to the West Indies and Caribbean category of Geographicus Antique Map Gallery.

1850 Cruchley Map of North and South America

200.00 USD — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:27:00 +0000

An attractive 1850 map of North and South America by George Frederick Cruchley. The map covers all of North America as well as South America from the Arctic to Cape Horn. In North America, Russian and British territories in Alaska and Canada are clearly noted. In South America, Chili extends southward only to the border of Patagonia, while Bolivia has a coast. Cruchley divides the territories and countries with color coding and notes major cities, rivers, mountains etc. A beautiful example of Rand McNally and Company's 1892 map of Cuba. The map covers the entire island of Cuba including the Salt Sea Banks and the Isla de la Juventud or the Isla de Pinos (Isle of Pines) as it was until 1978. A divisional line dividing the island into two dioceses viz. archbishopric of Santiago de Cuba and the bishopric of Habana is noted. An important and influential first edition first state 1743 map of the North America by the French cartographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin. Bellin's map covers all of North America from the Arctic to the Spanish Main, including modern day Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. The map features several interesting annotations throughout. This is a beautiful map of the West Indies from Sidney Hall's extremely scarce 1835 New General Atlas . Centered on the island of Hispaniola (Santo Domingo), it covers the Caribbean from southern Florida, south as far as the Gulf of Panama and the Spanish Main, and east to Barbados and the Lesser Antilles. The Bahamas (Bahama Islands), parts of Honduras, the Panama Bay, Guatemala and Nicaragua are also included. A fine old color example of Claes Jansz Vooght and Johannes Van Keulen's 1687 nautical chart or maritime map of the approaches to the Straits of Florida. Oriented to the west, this map covers from the eastern tip of Cuba to the Bahamas and from Florida to Exuma, Bahamas. This is the first maritime chart to focus in such remarkable detail on the southeast coast of Florida. Portions of the Florida coast covered include the region from West Palm Beach to Miami and the northern Florida Keys. A fine example of Francisco Coello de Portugal y Quesada's massive map of Puerto Rico. Coello's map is the first scientifically produced Spanish map of Puerto Rico. The map is essentially ten individual maps on a signal sheet with extensive historical and statistical annotation. This sheet details Puerto Rico, San Juan, and eight other maps of ports, neighboring islands and important geographical features. Longitude is measured from Madrid. A fine example of Francisco Coello de Portugal y Quesada's massive map of Puerto Rico. Coello's map is the first scientifically produced Spanish map of Puerto Rico. The map is essentially ten individual maps on a signal sheet with extensive historical and statistical annotation. This sheet details Puerto Rico, San Juan, and eight other maps of ports, neighboring islands and important geographical features. Longitude is measured from Madrid. A beautiful example of Zannoni's 1762 map of the West Indies, Florida and Central America. Covers from the Gulf of Mexico to the Lesser Antilles including all of the West Indies, Florida and Central America, with parts of Louisiana, Mexico and northern South America. In essence a nautical chart, this map has little inland detail and is crisscrossed with both rumb lines and lines of latitude and longitude. Coastal cities, rivers and ports are named throughout. This is an example of David M. Warren's 1879 map of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. Divided into two parts, the upper map covers Mexico and Central America from Mexico to Costa Rica. The lower map details West Indies from the southern part of Florida to the northern part of South America and includes the Greater and Lesser Antilles as far east as Barbados. This is an exceptionally interesting and beautiful 1752 wall map of North America composed by Malachy Postlethwayte. Postlethwayte, an englishman, prepared this map for issue in conjunction with the second edition (1752) of his popular Dictionary of Trade & Commerce . Cartographically this map is based upon the earlier work of the French mapmaker J. B. B. D�Anville. A mesmerizing and extremely scarce 1795 Charles Roberts nautical chart of the Windward Passage, between Cuba and Hispaniola (Santo Domingo), in the Greater Antilles, West Indies. Centered on Great Iguana Island (Le Mornet or Grand Inague) in the modern day Bahamas, this map covers from eastern Cuba to the Porto Rico Channel and from Guanahani Island (Cat Island, where Columbus supposedly landed) southwards to include all of Hispaniola and Jamaica. An exceptionally fine example of the 1758 Dutch edition of Jacques N. Bellin's map of St. Lucia (St. Lucie), in the Lesser Antilles, West Indies. Oriented to the east, this map covers the entire island of St. Lucia with topography rendered in profile and color coding according region. A Dutch language title cartouche in the rococo ethic decorates the upper left quadrant. Historically St. A beautiful 1855 first edition example of Colton's map of Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico and the Bahamas. Like most of Colton's North America maps, this map was derived from an earlier wall map of North America produced by Colton and D. Griffing Johnson. Centered on Cuba, this map extends north to include the Florida coast and New Providence Island, extends south as far as Jamaica. Includes the Cayman Islands and a detailed inset of Porto Rico in the lower left quadrant. An excellent 1855 first edition example of Colton's map of the West Indies. Like most of Colton's North America maps, this map was derived from an earlier wall map of North America produced by Colton and D. Griffing Johnson. Centered on Santo Domingo (Hispaniola), this map extends north to include the to cover all of Florida, south as far as Panama Bay and the Spanish Main, and east as far as Barbados and the Windward Islands (Antilles). A fine 1729 map of North America by Pieter Van der Aa with an elaborate frame style border. Centered on the Great Lakes, this map covers all of North America from the Baffin Bay to the Spanish Map and from California to the Azores (Acores). The map is color coded according to the dominant colonial powers; the regions of Florida, New Mexico, New Spain (Mexico), California, Nouvelle France, the lands of the Hudson Bay Company, and the British Colonies along the eastern seaboard being identified. This is the 1783 Dezauche issue of Phillipe Buache and Guillaume D L'Isle's important map of North America and the West Indies. The map covers the United States, Mexico, New Mexico, Central America and the West Indies or Antilles. De L'Isle first issued this map in 1703. At the time it was by far the most sophisticated map of the region yet produced, an achievement that the map historian Carl Wheat considers 'a towering landmark along the path of Western cartographic development'. A fine example of the 1823 F. Lucas Jr.'s map of the West Indies and Caribbean. Centered on Hispaniola, covers from Florida and the Bahamas south through the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Hispaniola to the northern Part of South America and east to the Caribbean Islands or the Lesser Antilles. Includes the Bahamas (Bahama Islands). This map is published as part of the 1823 edition of F. Lucas Jr.'s A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps Of all the Known Countries in the World . A fine example of Adam and Charles Black's 1840 map of West Indies. Centered on Hispaniola, the map covers the Caribbean from Florida to Venezuela and from Yucatan to the Lesser Antilles and Barbados. It includes the Bahamans, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and Santo Domingo (Hispaniola), Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Leeward and Windward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago. It also shows parts of Guatemala, Venezuela and the Isthmus of Panama. A fine example of the 1789 Dezauche edition of Buache's important map of the West Indies. Centered on Cuba, this massive map covers Central America, the Gulf of Mexico, the West Indies, and the Caribbean from Mexico and Texas to the Lesser Antilles and from Florida to the Spanish Main. Cartographically Buache derived this map from Henry Popple's remarkable 1733 map of North America. As a whole it exhibits numerous significant advances over earlier Buache / De L'Isle model of the region. A finely detailed first edition 1794 map of the West Indies and the Caribbean by Robert Wilkinson. Wilkinson�s map covers the West Indies, from the Mexican Coast to the Windward Islands, inclusive of , the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Florida, the Spanish Main, the Bahamas, and the Greater Antilles. each region is color coded to identify its colonial overlord, with Spain in yellow, england in red, and the few French colonies in green.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1850 Cruchley Map of North and South America