Curacao From The Dutch Originals Of Gerard Van Keulen Regulated

by Astronomical Observations by Thomas Jefferys

$1,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A detailed English chart of Curaçao, bringing Dutch Van Keulen's hydrography into Jefferys’ great West Indian atlas tradition, with unusually rich detail for the island’s harbours, anchorages, plantations, salt ponds, forts, ruins, and coastal approaches. This finely engraved chart presents Curaçao as both a navigational subject and a colonial working landscape. The island is shown in considerable detail from West Hoek and St. Christophers Mount in

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