JEFFERYS (Thomas sr.).

The Caribbee Islands, the Virgin Islands, and The Isle of Porto Rico. ...

Copperplate engraving, 485 x 625 mm, with title. This is a fine example, on good paper, with wide margins and a dark impression, with light show-through of glue from the guard. London : Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 20 Feby, 1775.

£2,000.00

Uncommon map of the sweep of islands from Porto Rico to St. Vincent and Barbados, including the Virgin Islands, St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique and St. Lucia.

Although complete in itself, this map is one sheet from Thomas Jefferys’ sixteen sheet and included in his projected West India Atlas, published posthumously by Sayer and Bennett in 1775, which was the standard atlas of the region throughout the American Revolutionary War.

Stock No.
226278