DESCRIPTION: Well-worn, decorative antique sea chart covering from the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico to western Cuba, including Merida, Valladolid, Loggerhead Key, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, etc. By English cartographer Thomas Jefferys. A fleet of galleons is shown on a plotted track labeled: "Gallions Track from Cartagena", while two ships head west along a plotted track labeled: "Track from Cape Catoche to Campeche." To round out the cast of characters a third ship, apparently a privateer, exits a shorter track between two rocky areas. That track is noted as the "Passage del Corsario" (A corsair was a privateer, or pirate acting with the explicit backing of a foreign government).
From Sayer's and Bennett's atlas titled: The West-India Atlas: or, a compendious description of the West-Indies: illustrated with forty one correct charts and maps, taken from actual surveys."
Publishers attribution reads: "London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map and Print seller. No 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs 20th Feb.y 1775.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1775
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: Mexico
BODY OF WATER: Bay of Campeche
CONDITION: Fair.
Repairs from verso including vertical center fold with minor loss. Centerfold browned. Misfold right side. Dirty and browned.
COLORING: Hand coloring.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 24
" x
18 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 52
PRICE: $650
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