Caribbean and Bermuda
Cuba/ Opera History. CARDENA, Mariano/ BECHERINIE, F. [Havana, 1848] Arribo de Albina Steffanoni a la Isla de CUBA. 1848. 8 x 11 inches (sheet size). Manuscript in pen & ink & watercolors on heavy, watermarked wove paper, bit of soiling & toning, else excellent. [With:] A ms. sonnet titled Omaggio.....
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Tavola dell’ isole nuove.
Excellent example of the earliest separate map of the entire Western Hemisphere. This was also the earliest map to refer to the Pacific Ocean (along with Munster's world map) by a variant of its present name, Mare pacificum. It was one of earliest acquirable maps to show Japan prominently, which.....
Occidentalis Americae partis, ve, earum Regionum quas Christophorus Columbus.
Arguably the most beautifully engraved early map of the Caribbean, including Florida and the Southeast, here with color of uncommon beauty. The map includes representations of Columbus’ ships and various notes regarding his discoveries. It appeared in Book IV of De Bry’s Grands Voyages with text by Benzoni. De Bry’s.....
Antigua/ Slave Emancipation. STOBWASSER, L./ HURLIMANN [Basel, 1835] Vue de Gracehill dans I’Isle d’Antigoa aux Indes occidentales. 8 ¾ x 11 1/8 inches. Aquatint with fine original color; slight mended edge split, few spots, else excellent. Rare, luminously colored view that relates directly to the then recent emancipation of slaves.....
Nautical Chart: Block Island to Cuba. BLUNT, E. & G. W./ COPLEY, Charles [New York, 1853] Coast Of North America from Point Judith to Cape St. Antonio. (Island Of Cuba) Including The Bhama Banks… Every Authentic Survey, American, English & Spanish, Has Been Used In The Construction Of This Chart… 29.....
Bermuda. U. S. NAVY HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE [Washington, DC: March 1878/ June 1887] North Atlantic Ocean. Bermuda Islands. From The Most Recent Brit. Admty. Surveys. 1877. 28 x 38 ¼ inches. Lithograph with three insets printed on separate sheets & pasted on. Lighthouses denoted with hand color. Expertly mounted on new.....