"Anegada, with Its Reefs", Schomburgk, Robert Hermann (Sir)

This early chart of the island of Anegada by the German-born naturalist and explorer Sir R.H. Schomburgk captures the waters around the island in great detail, with various shoals, bays, channels, and other marine features identified in the Caribbean. Inland, notations indicate Settlements, Highest land, and Heaps of Conch Shells, among other interesting markers. An inset in the bottom left corner zooms out to show Anegada with a majority of the Virgin Islands. Engraved by J. & C. Walker.

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Condition: B

Issued folding, now pressed flat, with some short tears along the edges and a fold separation in a blank region of the Caribbean that have been repaired with archival tape and old paper on verso. There is also light offsetting, a dim damp stain that barely enters the neatline at top-left, and some imprints in the paper, as if someone had been writing on a sheet with the map underneath.