Latin America & the Caribbean
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This charming and unusual plan shows the old Aztec city on its island site not long after its conquest by the Spanish. Reproduced from a woodcut in Ramusio's Delle Navigationi et Viaggi.
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| Size: 7" x 10¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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While this view was published in the 17th century, it purports to show the capital of Mexico as it appeared before the Spanish conquest.
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| Size: 11¼" x 13¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
| Puerto Rico and the Leeward Islands |
Date: 1794 |
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Re-issued by Laurie & Whittle from a map by Thomas Jefferys, this lovely, colored chart includes most of the island of Puerto Rico and all of the Virgin Islands at the northwest and extends southward as far as Barbados.
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| Size: 15¾” x 20¼” - Colored, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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One of the earliest of the Spanish colonial towns, the capital of Puerto Rico is shown here from De Rueda's Atlas Americano. The legend and numbers identify the town's major features, most of which are still in existence.
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| Size: 16¼" x 22¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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One of the earliest of the Spanish colonial towns, the capital of Puerto Rico is shown here from De Rueda's Atlas Americano. The legend and numbers identify the town's major features, most of which are still in existence.
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| Size: 12¾” x 18” - Colored, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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With an impressive walled cathedral yard at its center, fortified Santo Domingo is shown here nearly a century after its founding on the southern coast of Hispanola, the first permanent European settlement in the New World.
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| Size: 8½" x 8½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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This is the oldest colonial city in the Western Hemisphere. It was planned in 1502 to replace a settlement founded six years earlier that had been destroyed in a tropical hurricane. Its rectilinear design and large central plaza provided a model for many later towns of Spanish origin. Like the views listed below, this engraving appeared in De Nieuwe in Onbekende Weerld by Arnoldus Montanus.
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| Size: 11¼" x 13¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Nicely detailed and attractively colored, this map of the Island of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands is reproduced from an engraving in Jacques Nicolas Bellin's Petit Atlas Maritime. It is perhaps the only 18th century separate map of this Caribbean island.
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| Size: 13¼” x 21¼” - Colored, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
| Virgin Islands |
Date: 1797 |
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Our boldly colored sailing chart of the Virgin Islands was issued by Thomas Jefferys from the surveys by Captain James Waring. This edition is from Laurie & Whittle's West-India Atlas
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| Size: 15½” x 20½” - Colored, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Marco Vincenzo Coronelli was Cosmographer to the Republic of Venice when he drew this fascinating map of the West Indies. It was published in Paris by Jean Baptist Nolin with an elaborately embellished cartouche showing figures of natives and plants of the region.
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| Size: 13¾” x 18¾” - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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