Tobago from Actual Surveys and Observations

by Thomas Jefferys

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

A highly detailed map of Tobago from Jefferys’ celebrated West-India Atlas 1775 , one of the defining eighteenth-century cartographic works on the Caribbean. Published soon after Tobago passed to Britain, the map combines plantation survey, maritime chart, and colonial land record, showing estate divisions, anchorages, Indigenous villages, and inset plans of Courland and Man of War Bays. Jefferys' map presents Tobago in the decade after the island passed to Britain

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