| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 613 |  | Details | Fahlberg, Samuel | 1792 |
| Chart of Saint Barthelemy, St. Martin and Anguilla |
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Fahlberg, Samuel |
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| 1792 |
| LOC:68 |
| $9,500.00 | Fahlberg--Samuel | Chart-of-Saint-Barthelemy--St--Martin-and-Anguilla | Exceedingly rare original antique chart of the Caribbean islands of <b>Anguilla, St. Barts, St. Martin, Dog Island, and Prickly Pear Island</b> by Swedish cartographer and physician <b>Dr. Samuel Fahlberg</b> (1758-1834) . This beautifully engraved chart may well be the only available small-scale sea chart of these four Caribbean Islands by a Swedish cartographer. No record an example of this chart in WorldCat.
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Fahlberg's 1792 chart depicts a strategically important group of neighboring Caribbean islands divided among three European colonial powers: Sweden, France and the Dutch Republic, and Britain. Centered upon the maritime approaches to the newly established Swedish free port of Gustavia, the chart documents the channels connecting Saint Barthélemy, St. Martin, and Anguilla (Kortta Passagem, Lainga Passegem) at a formative moment in the development of Caribbean commerce. Published immediately before the French Revolutionary Wars transformed Gustavia into a major neutral trading center, it represents an early Swedish effort to chart the waters surrounding the kingdom's recently acquired Caribbean colony.
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Fahlberg moved to St. Barthelemy (St. Barts / Barth) as a physician in 1784 after the island was ceded to Sweden by France. In 1803 Fahlberg was named Director of Survey of St. Barts; he thoroughly mapped the island for the Swedish West India Company ( Svenska Vastindiska Kompaniet ) <sup>1</sup>.
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