Carte De Lisle De La Martinique Colonie Francoise De Lune Des Isles Antilles De Lamerique Dressee

by Guillaume De Lisle Phillippe Buache

$500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A handsome 18th-century topographical map of Martinique. This highly detailed map of Martinique delineates the hilly terrain, forests, roads, houses, and even the sugar plantations. The island was to the French what Barbados and Jamaica were to the English: immensely profitable sites for sugar production. Guillaume de l'Isle 1675-1726 was the son of a cartographer and a pupil of Jean Dominique Cassini, who, among other important contributions, aligned the study of

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