"Les Grandes et Petites Isles Antilles, et les Isles Lucayes avec une Partie de la Mer du Nord", Robert de Vaugondy/Santini
Subject: Caribbean
Period: 1779 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
22.8 x 18.5 inches
57.9 x 47 cm
Fine Italian edition of Robert de Vaugondy's large, detailed map of the Caribbean extending from southern Florida and the Bahamas to the Lesser Antilles and the northern coast of South America. The large decorative title cartouche features a ship, fishing nets, shells and three wind-heads.
References: cf Pedley #476.
Condition: B+
Watermarked paper with wide margins, a few minor spots, and an archivally repaired tear that enters map border at bottom.