In fine contemporary hand colour

Author

JEFFERYS, Thomas.

Title

Antigua, surveyed by Robert Baker,
Surveyor General of that island: engraved and improved by Thomas Jefferys Geographer to the King.

Published, Date

James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, London1819.

Description

Copper engraving, in original wash colour, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into the original green marbled slipcase with paper label, the map, widest: 491 x 615 mm.

Note

Apparently unrecorded state of this important map, here in beautiful fresh condition and in the finest contemporary hand-colouring. In 1749, Robert Baker published a four-sheet map of Antigua from his recent survey; in 1775, Thomas Jefferys prepared a single-sheet version for inclusion in his 'West India Atlas'. Baker's map, the first survey of the whole island, in both wall-map and atlas format, is the most important map of the island before the new surveys of the early 1850s. The single-sheet version, a more manageable size, proved particularly popular and remained in circulation up until 1860. This example was sold as a folding map, described as improved to 1819; this state not recorded in Tooley, Printed Maps of Antigua.

References

Stock Number

84374