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CUBA - Costa de Cuba [late 18th Century]
Spanish manuscript chart of the south coast of Cuba, from Cabo Cruz up to Manzanillo, on the Golfo de Guacanayabo, brown ink on silk, (48.5 x 58.6cm.), marking towns and rivers along the coast and detailing the Banco de Buena Esperanza, small islands, rocks, water-ways and soundings, scale-bar, key and compass rose. (Damp-stained, a few tiny unobtrusive holes).
A rare and detailed nautical chart on silk, enabling boats to navigate the islands and rocks dotted along the coast. Different types of beacons and stakes are marked as signals of danger to sailors and are explained in the key.
CUBA -- Carta esferica del N. de la Isla de Cuba, September 1845
Spanish manuscript chart of the coast and islands of the north of Cuba, from Cpae Siguagua, along the Bahia de Santa Clara, to Cape Cabezas, black ink and wash on thick paper, (64 x 86cm.), soudings, sandbanks and rocks clearly indicated. (A few unobtrusive minor spots and tears to margins). Signed by Don Luis Yboleon y Bosque, who was commissioned to draw the map and names it as his property. Inscribed 'No. 11' on verso, folding.
A highly-detailed chart drawn up on the orders of His Excellency Señor Don Jose Primo de Ribera, Captain-General of Cuba, for Naval Lieutenant D. Pio A. de Pazos y Barcaiztequi in September 1845. The map is dedicated to D. Jose de Carranza y Echvarria, a friend and co-cartographer in this commission to Don Bosque. The chart dates from the years before Cuba's first War of Independence. (2)
Spanish manuscript chart of the south coast of Cuba, from Cabo Cruz up to Manzanillo, on the Golfo de Guacanayabo, brown ink on silk, (48.5 x 58.6cm.), marking towns and rivers along the coast and detailing the Banco de Buena Esperanza, small islands, rocks, water-ways and soundings, scale-bar, key and compass rose. (Damp-stained, a few tiny unobtrusive holes).
A rare and detailed nautical chart on silk, enabling boats to navigate the islands and rocks dotted along the coast. Different types of beacons and stakes are marked as signals of danger to sailors and are explained in the key.
CUBA -- Carta esferica del N. de la Isla de Cuba, September 1845
Spanish manuscript chart of the coast and islands of the north of Cuba, from Cpae Siguagua, along the Bahia de Santa Clara, to Cape Cabezas, black ink and wash on thick paper, (64 x 86cm.), soudings, sandbanks and rocks clearly indicated. (A few unobtrusive minor spots and tears to margins). Signed by Don Luis Yboleon y Bosque, who was commissioned to draw the map and names it as his property. Inscribed 'No. 11' on verso, folding.
A highly-detailed chart drawn up on the orders of His Excellency Señor Don Jose Primo de Ribera, Captain-General of Cuba, for Naval Lieutenant D. Pio A. de Pazos y Barcaiztequi in September 1845. The map is dedicated to D. Jose de Carranza y Echvarria, a friend and co-cartographer in this commission to Don Bosque. The chart dates from the years before Cuba's first War of Independence. (2)
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