Subject: Gulf of Mexico & Caribbean
Period: 1770 (circa)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
17.8 x 12.4 inches
45.2 x 31.5 cm
Finely engraved chart covering the U.S. and Mexican coastlines, Central America, northern South America, and all of the major islands of the West Indies, also naming some very small ones. The map is filled with great coastal detail and many place names. Southern Florida here is broken into an archipelago. This lovely chart is adorned with a decorative cartouche draped with garlands, a fleur-de-lis, and rhumb lines.
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Condition: A
A crisp impression with contemporary color in the map and later color in the cartouche on a sheet with the watermark of a Maltese cross encircled in rosary beads. There are a pair of tiny abrasions along the centerfold north of Panama and marginal soiling.