Historic Urban Plans

The explorer Christoper Columbus encountered this island on his first voyage, and on its northern coast he established two short-lived settlements. Later, at Santo Domingo, the Spanish in 1502 founded the oldest town of European origin in the Western Hemisphere. Our map by Guillaume de L’Isle, the greatest French geographer of the eighteenth century, is both handsome and accurate.

Size: 15 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches. Color, Text-Weight Paper