St. Vincent, from An Actual Survey Made In The Year 1775 after the Treaty with the Caribs

by Thomas Jefferys

$1,700 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A finely detailed, one of the earliest large format printed maps devoted to St. Vincent, surveyed in the immediate aftermath of the 1773 treaty between the British and the island’s Carib communities, and preserving in cartographic form the contested division of land, settlement, resources, and colonial ambition. The map's title places it directly in the aftermath of the 1773 treaty with the Caribs, a phrase that records the maps British colonial perspective and the

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