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.

1778 Vaugondy Map of Mexico, Central America, Florida and the West Indies

350.00 USD — Thu, 14 May 2015 17:23:00 +0000

This is an uncommon 1778 map of Mexico, the Gulf Coast, Florida and West Indies by Robert de Vaugondy. Centered on the Gulf Coast, it covers from Baja California to Florida and the Lesser Antilles, and from the Chesapeake Bay south as far as Bogota in Columbia. Being primarily a map of Mexico and the Spanish holdings in North America, this excellent map details the various Mexican states naming countless towns, villages, and haciendas. An extremely rare first edition of John Cowley's rutter (nautical guidebook) of the West Indies, particularly the important Windward Passage between Cuba and Hispaniola. This document was intended for navigators and tradesmen with an interested in the English West India Trade. It describes the route from the Gulf of Florida through the Windward Passage into the Caribbean, where ships would pick up the trade winds that carried them across the Atlantic to Europe. This is a scarce 1701 map of the West Indies and northern South America by Herman Moll. It covers from Cuba south as far as the Amazon River. Includes the modern day nations of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guyana and Brazil. Moll notes the city of Manoa and the location of El Dorao west of the Prime or Parima Lake. This is a beautiful first edition first state 1750 map of the West by Robert de Vaugondy. It covers the Caribbean from southern Florida south to Trinidad and Tobago. Includes Cuba, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, and the Lesser Antilles and renders the region in detail offering both topographical and political information. Florida is misshapen with no trace of the Keys. This is an excellent 1855 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). This is a beautiful example of A. J. Johnson's 1866 map of the West Indies. It covers from Florida to Venezuela and from Honduras to Barbados. Includes the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Santo Domingo (Hispaniola), Porto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles or Windward Isles. An inset of Bermuda appears in the upper right quadrant. Features some offshore detail with depth soundings in the Pedro Bank off Jamaica, off the coast of Nicaragua, and in the Bahama Bank. 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. This is a fine example of Thomas Cowperthwait and S. A. Mitchell's 1854 map of West Indies. It covers from Florida and the Bahamas south through the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti & the Dominican Republic) to the northern Part of South America and east to the Caribbee Islands or the Lesser Antilles. Includes the Bahamas (Bahama Islands). The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive style with green border work and vivid pastels. This is a scarce 1781 John Lodge map of the Leeward Islands or the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain in West Indies. It covers from Hat Island (Sombrero) south as far as Nevis and depicts the colonial possessions of the Dutch, French and the English, including the Dutch Islands of Sint Eustatius, Saba, the French Island of St. Bart or St. Barthelemy (Bartholomew) and the Island of St. Martins, and the English Islands of St. Kitts or St. Christophers, Nevis and Anguilla. This is a beautiful 1835 map of the West Indies and Caribbean by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or S.D.U.K. It covers from Florida to the Spanish Main and from Guatemala to the Lesser Antilles and Trinidad. It notes British, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Danish possessions. Towns, rivers, mountains and various other important topographical details are noted. This is a fine example of Adam and Charles Black's 1844 map of West Indies. Centered on Haiti or Santo Domingo, it covers the Caribbean from Florida to the Gulf of Panama and from Yucatan to the Lesser Antilles and Barbados. It includes the Bahamans, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and San Domingo (Hispaniola), Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Leeward and Windward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago. It also shows parts of Guatemala and the Isthmus of Panama. This beautiful map of Mexico, Guatemala and the West Indies was printed in 1835 by the important American mapmaker T. G. Bradford. It covers from Upper California and New Albion south to Panama, including the modern day regions of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Texas, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Mexico. Bradford's map offers an interesting pre-Republic mapping of state of Coahuila and Texas. This is a fascinating 1814 map of the West Indies and Central America by the Edinburgh cartographer John Thomson. It covers from the Carolinas south through Texas, Mexico and Central America to the northern part of South America as well as Venezuela and the Orinoco Delta. It includes all of the West Indies islands including the Caribbean and the Greater and Lesser Antilles. This beautiful map of the West Indies was printed in 1835 by the important American mapmaker T. G. Bradford. 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. An attractive example of the c. 1756 Crepy edition of Popple's Key Map. One of the two most important maps of North America issued in the 18th century, Popple's map covers from the Hudson Bay to the Spanish Main and from the Rio Grande to the Grand Banks. Seventeen detail city and port plans appear in the lower right quadrant of the map. This map is, as its more common name 'Popple's Key Map' suggests, a key to assembling the separate sheets of Popple's massive wall map of the same region. A beautiful 1852 George Frederick Cruchley map of the Western Hemisphere. It offers a fascinating snapshot of the world during a period of rapid globalization and discovery, and includes North America, South America and most of Polynesia. Antarctica is only tenuously denoted, reflecting the primitive state of exploration in the region. The map is color coded according to continents with countries, major cities, rivers, mountains and other topographical features noted. 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. 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 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.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1778 Vaugondy Map of Mexico, Central America, Florida and the West Indies