Antique Maps of the West Indies

[Miniature map of the West Indies]

Petrus Bertius.
Insularum Cubæ, Hispaniolæ Jucatanæ & circumjacentium descriptio.

Amsterdam, c.1600, Latin text edition. 90 x 135mm. Coloured.
Untitled map of the West Indies, engraved by either Pieter van den Keere or Jodocus Hondius the Elder. This is the earliest of two plates used to illustrated the Bertius atlas, without longitude and latitude scales. It was replaced by a new plate by Jodocus Hondius the younger in 1616.
BERT0103

[Fine map of West Indian Islands]

Jodocus Hondius.
Cuba Insula; Hispaniola Insula; Insula Jamaica; Ins.S.Joannis; I.S.Margareta cum Confiniis.

Amsterdam, 1623, Latin text edition. 360 x 495mm. Coloured.
Five maps on one sheet: larger maps of Cuba and Hispaniola and smaller of Jamaica, Puerto Rico & Margarita. The map of Cuba has an inset of Havana's harbour.
HOND0092

[Map of the West Indian islands]

Johannes Cloppenburg.
Cuba Insula; Havana Portus; Hispaniola Insula; Ins. Jamaica; Ins. S.Johannis; I.S.Margareta.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson van Waesberger, 1676. 190 x 260mm.
The islands of the West Indies, engraved by van der Keere. Waesberger was Jan Jansson's son-in-law.
CLOP0010

[Map of West Indies]

Johannes Cloppenburg.
De Groote Ende Kleyne Eylanden van West-Indien.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson van Waesberger, 1676. 185 x 255mm.
The West Indies, engraved by van der Keere. Waesberger was Jan Jansson's son-in-law.
CLOP0011

[Map of the West Indies]

Nicolas Sanson.
Les Isles Antilles, &c entre lesquelles sont Les Lucayes, et les Caribes.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
The West Indies, with the Bahamas, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0052

[The Travels of Hieronymus Benzo in the West Indies.]

Pieter van der Aa.
H.Benzös Scheep-Togt nit Italie over Spanje nade Westindiae Eylandenm en Kusten van't Zuider America.

Leiden, c.1710. 165 x 235mm. Narrow top margin, small hole in lower platemark.
Benzo, a naturalist from Milan, travelled in America between 1541 and 1556, Van der Aa included his 'Istoria del mondo nuovo' in a collection of narratives of voyages. With a decorative title cartouche.
AAAA0014

[Map of St Kitts, Antigua, Bermuda, Barbados]

Homann Heirs.
Dominia Anglorum in præcipuis Insulis Americæ...

Nuremberg, c.1740. 505 x 590mm. Original colour.
Five maps on one sheet: St Kitts, Antigua, Bermuda, Barbados and Jamaica. PALMER: Bermuda, p.13.
HOMA1024

[West Indies]

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie de la Mer du Nord ou se trouvant les Grandes et Petits Isles Antilles et les Isles Lucayes.

Paris, 1750. 500 x 630mm. Coloured.
A large and colourful map of the Caribbean, with a decorative rococo title cartouche.
ROBE0031

[Map of the West Indies]

Rigobert Bonne.
Les Isles Antilles et le Golfe du Méxique.

Paris, c.1780. 220 x 330mm. Coloured.
With an inset of Bermuda.
BONN0016

[Large and Detailed Chart of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico]

Philippe Buache.
Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles Antilles Reduite de la grande Carte Angloise de Popple.

Paris, Dezauche, c.1780. Two sheets conjoined, total 500 x 940mm. Coloured. Old ink numeral showing through from reverse in left margin.
Derived from Henry Popple's 20-sheet map of America of 1733, coloured to reflect which European country was in control of each area.
BUAC0003

[Maps of the Virgin Islands and Antilles]

Rigobert Bonne.
Cartes de Supplément pour les Isles Antilles.

Paris, 1788. 250 x 365mm. Coloured.
Nine maps on one sheet, engraved by André. The top half shows the Virgin Islands, with Anguilla, St Martins, St Barts & Barbuda; the eight smaller maps are: St Eustacia and St Kitts; Antigua; Dominica; St Lucia; Barbados; St Vincent; Grenada; & Tobago.
BONN0039

[Map of West Indies]

John Cary.
A New Map of the West India Isles, from the Latest Authorities.

London, 1819. 490 x 540mm. Original colour.
A colourful map of the West Indies.
CARY0010

[West Indies map]

John Arrowsmith.
West Indies.

London, 1842. 500 x 630mm. Original colour. Small split in lower centrefold, small tear leading from tab.
Detailed map of the West Indies, issued in the 'London Atlas' by the foremost British cartographer of his generation.
ARRO0003

[Map of Antigua]

George Louis Le Rouge.
Antigue une des Antilles aux Anglois.

Paris, Crépy, 1767. 220 x 285mm. Original colour.
Antigua, an English colony since 1632.
LERO0010

[Maps of Antigua, Guadeloupe & Marie-Galante]

John Thomson.
West India Islands: Antigua; Guadeloupe; Marie-Galante.

Edinburgh, c.1827. 530 x 655mm. Original colour. Trimmed into title at top.
Three maps on one sheet. When the map was first published, during the Napoleonic Wars, all three islands were in the possession of the British.
THOM0028

[Uncommon map of the French Antilles]

Christoph Weigel.
Insulæ Antillæ Francicæ Superiores cum vicinis insulis... Insulæ Antillæ Francicæ Inferiores cum vicinis insulis...

Nuremburg, c.1718. Two sheets conjoined, total 645 x 375mm. Coloured.
The French Antilles, showing from Guadeloupe south to Grenada, showing Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, Barbados, St Vincent and Mustique.
WEIG0030

[Map of the Antilles.]

J. Covens & C. Mortier.
Carte des Antilles Françoises et des Isles Voisins.

Amsterdam, c.1730. 595 x 455mm. Coloured.
The islands between Guadeloupe and Grenada, after De L'Isle, including St Lucia, Barbados and Mustique.
COVE0004

[Miniature map of the Bahamas]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Isles Lucayes.

Paris, c.1683. 145 x 115mm. Coloured.
The Bahamas, with a vignette sea-battle.
MALL0010

[Attractive map of Bermuda]

Henricus Hondius.
Mappa Æstivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas dictarum...

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1641. 400 x 515mm. Original colour.
One of the most decorative maps of Bermuda based on the famous survey by Richard Norwood of the Bermuda Company, also known as the Somers Isles Company in 1618. The map shows the division into the original Tribes, a short-lived name for what became administrative parishes, who were the major shareholders in the company. Also shown are the various landowners, with their names in a table below the map. There are many tiny houses shown on the map, locating settlements, as well as minute cannons marking the defensible points. The map is superimposed over a chart of the Atlantic with the coastlines of Britain, North America and Hispaniola showing the location of Bermuda. Decorated with an exquisite strapwork cartouche, a coat of arms, a medallion and a compass rose. PALMER: Bermuda, p.13.
HOND0018

[Map showing Bermuda, the Azores, Canaries and Madeira]

John Tallis.
Islands in the Atlantic.

London: John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Steel-engraving, original outline colour. 355 x 250mm.
Map of the Azores, Madeira and Bermuda, with a map of the coast of Africa with the Canaries and Cape Verde Islands.
TALL0045

[Miniature map of Cuba]

Petrus Bertius.
Cuba Insula.

Amsterdam, c.1602, Latin text edition. 90 x 135mm. Coloured.
Cuba and Jamaica, engraved by Pieter van den Keere. This is the earliest of two plates used to illustrated the Bertius atlas, without longitude and latitude scales. It was replaced by a new plate by Jodocus Hondius in 1616.
BERT0010

[Miniature map of Cuba and Jamaica]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
I.s de Cuba et de Jamaica.

Paris, c.1683. 150 x 100mm.
Cuba and Jamaica map, with vignette sea-battles.
MALL0051

[Map of Cuba]

Rigobert Bonne.
I'Isle de Cuba.

Paris, c.1783. 230 x 330mm. Coloured.
Cuba, with some of the southern islands of the Bahamas.
BONN0029

[View of Havanna]

Thomas Kelley.
Harbour and City of Havannah.

London, Kelly, c.1840. Coloured steel-engraving. 120 x 180mm.
Looking down on the city from the hills.
KELL0004

[Map of Santiago de Cuba]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Baye de St.Yago dans l'Isle de Cube.

Paris, c.1765. 235 x 185mm. Coloured.
Santiago de Cuba was founded in 1514 and served as capital of Cuba between 1522-89. Published in the 1764 edition of the Petit atlas Maritime'.
BELL0168

[Detailed Chart of Dominica]

Philippe Buache.
Carte de la Dominique Prise par les François le Septembre 1778.

Paris, c.1778. 640 x 505mm. Coloured.
A large and detailed chart of the island, captured by the French the year of publication. In 1783 Dominica was returned to the British by the Treaty of Versailles.
BUAC0002

[Map of Dominica]

Bryan Edwards.
Map of the Island of Dominica for the History of the West Indies.

London: J.Stockdale, 1794. 250 x 190mm. Coloured.
Bryan Edwards (1743-1800), a merchant who lived in Jamaica & traded in the West Indies for a number of years, wrote 'The History Civil & Commercail of the British Colonies in the West Indies'.
EDWA0002

[Map of Grenada]

John Thomson.
Grenada.

Edinburgh, c.1815. 250 x 205mm. Original colour. Trimmed from a larger sheet.
Detailed map showing the quartiers
THOM0026

[Map of Guadeloupe]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de L'Isle de la Guadeloupe.

Paris, c.1758. 225 x 320mm. Coloured.
Map of the French island of Guadeloupe.
BELL0105

[Hispaniola & Dominica]

Girolamo Ruscelli.
Isola Spagnola Nova.

Venice, Ziletti, 1574. 190 x 260mm.
Map of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with Tortuga off the north coast. This example was printed without the upper surface of the place being cleaned of surplus ink properly: thus the map surface is darker than the paper on which it was printed.
RUSC0008

[Early map of Hispaniola]

Tomaso Porcacchi.
Spagnola.

Venice, 1576. 110 x 145mm, set in a page of Italian text. Coloured.
One of the earliest maps of Hispaniola, now divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Engraved by Girolamo Porro for 'L'Isole piu famose del Mondo', first published 1572, a description of various islands of the world.
PORC0011

[Miniature Map of Hispaniola]

Petrus Bertius.
Hispaniola.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius.1616, First edition. 100 x 135mm. Coloured.
Hispaniola, now divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Hondius engraved new plates for his edition of the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', which he sold alongside the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'. KOEMAN: Lan 11a, 'With the new plates, the work was certainly improved'.
BERT0043

[Miniature Map of Puerto Rico & Hispaniola]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
I. d'Hispaniola et P.Rico.

Frankfurt, c.1686. 150 x 100mm. Coloured.
Map of Hispaniola and Porto Rico, with vignette sea-battles.
MALL0026

[Miniature plan of Santo Domingo]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
der Grundriss von der Stadt dess Heyl: Dominicus.

Frankfurt, c.1686. 150 x 100mm. Coloured.
Plan of Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, published in Mallet's 'Description de l'Univers'.
MALL0095

[Map of Hispaniola]

Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
L'Isle St Dominique.

Paris, 1749. 175 x 210mm. Coloured.
The island of Hispaniola, now split between the old French colony of Haiti and the formerly-Spanish Dominincan Republic
ROBE0041

[Hispaniola and Porto Rico]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de L'Isle d'Hayti Aujourd'hui l'Espagnole, ou L'Isle de St Domingue Avec les Isles Voisines Suivant la Decouverte de l'Anneé 1492 Et les Premieres Etablissemens des Espagnols.

Paris, 1754. 235 x 350mm. Coloured.
Map of the early Spanish discoveries in the New World, centred on Hispaniola, but also showing Porto Rico, the Virgin Isles and the eastern parts of Cuba and Jamaica.
BELL0161

[Uncommon map of Hispaniola]

G.T. Masi.
Carta esatta rappresentante l'Isola di S.Domingo o sia Hispaniola.

Livorno, 1777. 260 x 320mm. Coloured. .
From an Italian edition of Bonne.
MASI0001

[Haiti & St Domingue]

John Thomson.
Haiti, Hispaniola or St. Domingo.

Edinburgh, 1815. 280 x 630mm. Original colour. Trimmed to printed border at top, margin added.
Detailed map of Haiti and St. Domingue.
THOM0019

[Map of Hispaniola & St.Domingo]

Carey & Lea.
Hispaniola or Saint Domingo.

Philadelphia, 1822 or London, 1823. 330 x 500mm, set in text. Original colour.
From the 'Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas'.
CARE0003

[Miniature Map of St Domingo]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
...la Ville de San-Domingo...

Paris, 1683. 145 x 115mm. Coloured.
Plan of St Domingo
MALL0052

[The 'miniature Speed' map of Jamaica]

John Speed.
Jamaica.

London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. 90 x 130mm. Coloured.
A map of Jamaica, divided into parishes, published in the miniature edition of Speed's 'Prospect of the World'. This atlas was first published in 1627, using maps engraved by Pieter van den Keere, but this map only appeared in this 1676 edition, with other regional maps of the Americas.
SPEE0020

[Map of Jamaica]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de L'Isle de la Jamaica... 1758.

Paris, c.1760. 220 x 330mm. Coloured.
Jamaica divided into Parishes.
BELL0034

[Map of Jamaica]

Carey & Lea.
Jamaica.

Philadelphia, 1822 or London, 1823. 310 x 330mm, set in text. Original colour.
From the 'Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas'.
CARE0004

[Detailed map of Jamaica.]

G.H. Swanston.
Island of Jamaica.

London & Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., c.1870. 160 x 250mm. Original colour. Narrow left margin.
Detailed map of Jamaica.
SWAN0002

[Map of Martinique]

Nicolas De Fer
L'Isle de la Martinique.

Paris, 1705. 260 x 360mm. Coloured.
Map of Martinique, engraved by Starckman, with physical features shown in profile and a 63-point key.
DEFE0041

[Map of Martinique]

Guillaume De L'Isle.
Carte de l'Isle de la Martinique, Colonie Françoise de l'une des Isles Antilles de l'Amerique.

Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, c.1740. 495 x 570mm. Original colour.
A fine impression of this map of the island.
DELI0017

[Map of Martinique]

George Louis Le Rouge.
Isle de la Martinique.

Paris, 1748. 210 x 285mm. Coloured.
Martinique.
LERO0009

[Small-format map of Martinique]

Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
L'Isle de la Martinique.

Paris, 1749. 175 x 200mm. Original colour.
The French island of Martinique in the Antilles.
ROBE0048

[Map of Martinique]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de L'Isle de la Martinique.

Paris, c.1760. 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Map of the French island of Martinique.
BELL0169

[Map of Martinique]

Crépy
Isle de Martinique.

Paris: Crépy, 1767. 215 x 285mm.

CREP0001

[Map of Martinique]

Rigobert Bonne.
Carte de L'Isle de la Martinique, Colonie Françoise dans les Isles Antilles.

Paris, c.1780. 340 x 230mm. Coloured.
Map of Martinique, engraved by André.
BONN0025

[Martinique]

Willem Albert Bachine.
Kaart van het eiland Martinique.

Amsterdam, 1785. 345 x 225mm. Original colour.
The island of Martinique. The crops of sugar and coffee were so valuable to the French that twenty years earlier, in the Treaty of Paris of 1763 which ended the Seven Years War, they gave up all of Canada in order to regain Martinique and Guadeloupe.
BACH0001

[Maps of Martinique and Guadeloupe]

Rigobert Bonne.
Carte de la Martinique. Isles de la Guadeloupe, de Marie Galante, de la Désirade et celles des Saintes.

Paris, 1788. 250 x 365mm. Coloured.
Maps of the French islands of the Antilles, engraved by André.
BONN0038

[Martinique & sugar, cotton and tobacco]

Victor Levasseur.
Colonies Françaises. Martinique. Amérique du Sud.

Paris, c.1852. Steel engraving, printed area 310 x 435mm. Original outline colour.
Map of Martinique, within an illustrated border, showing trade goods including sugar, cotton and tobacco.
LEVA0007

[Map of St Kitts]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de L'Isle St. Christophe.

Paris, c.1760. 215 x 320mm. Coloured.
St Christophers or St Kitts.
BELL0104

[St Kitts, St Lucia & Nevis]

John Thomson.
St Christophers; St Lucia; Nevis.

Edinburgh, c.1815. 520 x 640mm. Original colour.
Three maps (St Christophers, St Lucia, Nevis) on one sheet
THOM0020

[Map of St Lucia]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de L'Isle de Sainte Lucie.

Paris, c.1760. 210 x 315mm. Coloured.
St Lucia, orientated with north to the left.
BELL0076

[St Martin French Guyana, and Newfoundland,]

Victor Levasseur.
Colonies Françaises (en Amérique.)

Paris, c.1852. Steel engraving, printed area 320 x 435mm. Original colour.
French colonies in America, including St Martin in the West Indies, French Guyana, and Newfoundland, St Pierre & Miquelon in Canada. The maps are within an illustrated border, showing trade goods including coffee and cotton.
LEVA0013

[Map of Tobago]

John Thomson.
Tobago.

Edinburgh, c.1815. 250 x 295mm. Original colour. Trimmed from a larger sheet, with extra margin added at bottom and left.
Detailed map.
THOM0024

[Map of Trinidad]

John Thomson.
Trinidad.

Edinburgh, 1816. 255 x 300mm. Original colour. Trimmed from a larger sheet, with extra margin added at top and left.
Detailed map.
THOM0027

[Decorative Map of Trinidad and British Guyana]

Archibald Fullarton.
British Possessions on the North West Coast of America.

London, 1863. Tinted lithograph, printed area 470 x 320mm. Original colour. Edges slightly trimmed.
Two maps on one sheet: Trinida and Guyana, surrounded by decorative vignettes including macaws, humming birds, sugar cane and a sugar mill, a cocoa & coffee plantation, and natives.
FULL0003

[Early source material on the Danish Virgin Islands.]

Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp.
[Geschichte der Mission der Evangelischen Bruder auf den Caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan.]

Leipzig, 1777. Complete set of illustrations from the book (no text), consisting of three maps and four views, all coloured. Largest 350 x 370mm.
The illustrations from the important account of the Moravian missions on the islands of St Croix, St Thomas and St John, then Danish possessions but now part of the British and U.S. Virgin Islands. The maps are all by Paul Küffner: a general map of the Antilles; St Thomas; & St Croix. The plates are all after Oldendorp: two views of Frederiksted on St Croix, St Thomas and St John.
OLDE0001

[Puerto Rico & Virgin Islands]

John Thomson.
Porto Rico and Virgin Islands.

Edinburgh, 1815. 250 x 630mm. Original colour. Trimmed to bottom printed border, margin added.
Map of Puerto Rico & Virgin Islands
THOM0017

[Map of the Virgin Islands]

Jean Alexandre C Buchon.
Porto Rico et Iles Vierges.

Paris, J.Carez, 1825. Map 270 x 430mm, set in letterpress. Original colour.
Engraved by Beaupré.
BUCH0002

[View of St Thomas, Virgin Islands]

H. Hanson.
Parti af St. Thomas.

c. 1860. Lithograph, printed area 220 x 275mm.
An uncommon view of St Thomas, in the Virgin Islands.
HANS0001