Grenada Divided Into Its Parishes, Surveyed

by Order of His Excellency Governor Scott by Thomas Jefferys

$2,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

An unusually rich map of Grenada, capturing the island at the moment it passed from French to British imperial control. Jefferys and Sayer’s engraving presents Grenada as both a strategic Caribbean harbour and a highly organised plantation landscape. This large and finely engraved map records Grenada soon after its transfer to Great Britain under the Treaty of Paris of 1763. The French title explicitly describes the island as ceded to Great Britain by the last Treaty of

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