Barbados, Surveyed

by William Mayo by Thomas Jefferys

$2,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A richly detailed Barbados map after William Mayo’s authoritative survey, combining plantation geography, colonial administration, and maritime intelligence at the height of Britain’s Caribbean sugar economy. The map is rich in the practical detail of an eighteenth-century plantation island. The eleven parishes are named in large engraved capitals, with their boundaries clearly delineated: St. Lucy, St. Peter, St. Andrew, St. James, St. Thomas, St. Joseph, St.

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