JANSSON, Joannes (1588-1664). Insularum Hispaniolae et Cubae, Cum Insulis circum jacentibus. Amsterdam, 1650.
JANSSON, Joannes (1588-1664). Insularum Hispaniolae et Cubae, Cum Insulis circum jacentibus. Amsterdam, 1650.

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JANSSON, Joannes (1588-1664). Insularum Hispaniolae et Cubae, Cum Insulis circum jacentibus. Amsterdam, 1650.

Engraved map of Southern Florida and the Western Caribbean colored in outline, image 412 x 530 mm (505 x 597 mm sheet). Dutch text on verso. (Short tear to lower margin repaired on verso.)

FIRST ISSUE, first state of this map of the Caribbean based on the extremely rare Hessel Gerritz chart of ca 1631, and first published in Jansson's Atlas Majoris Quinta Pars, Orbem Maritimum. The large-scale enables much detail to appear from Central Florida to the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. Burden 291.

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