Subject: Martinique
Period: 1760 (circa)
Publication: Nieuwe en Beknopte Hand Atlas
Color: Hand Color
Size:
14.4 x 12.1 inches
36.6 x 30.7 cm
Fine, decorative map of the island filled with good detail of roads, topography, soundings, villages, windmills, and plantations. The title cartouche incorporates the distance scales and is garnished with sugar cane. A small compass rose completes the composition.
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Condition: A
A crisp impression with full contemporary color on a sheet with the watermarks of a Strasbourg Lily and "I. Villedary." There is light printer's ink residue, marginal soiling, and a small puncture in blank margin at bottom left.