Jamaica From The Latest Surveys

by Thomas Jefferys

$2,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A detailed map which documents a record of plantation geography and a practical harbour chart. The two large insets, the engraved relief, the dense coastal nomenclature, and the clearly marked parishes make it one of the most desirable eighteenth-century English maps of Jamaica. This large and finely engraved map presents Jamaica at the height of its eighteenth-century importance within the British Caribbean. The island is shown parish by parish, with Hanover, Westmoreland,

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