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ST. BARTHELEMY – DAM, Johan Nu (fl. late 18th century), Charta öfver Öen St Barthélémÿ. [c.1785]
A rare eighteenth-century manuscript map of the island of St. Barthélemy in the West Indies, the only Swedish colony in the Carribean, The island was handed over by the French to Sweden in 1784, who had an interest in gaining a sugar producing colony and declared it a Free Port in 1785, renaming the capital Gustavia
Manuscript map of the island of St Barthélemy and smaller islands belonging to Sweden, in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, brown ink and blue and green on paper, 461 x 581mm, place names supplied in French, settlements, roads and sandbanks marked in brown ink (unexamined out of frame), framed and glazed
A rare eighteenth-century manuscript map of the island of St. Barthélemy in the West Indies, the only Swedish colony in the Carribean, The island was handed over by the French to Sweden in 1784, who had an interest in gaining a sugar producing colony and declared it a Free Port in 1785, renaming the capital Gustavia
Manuscript map of the island of St Barthélemy and smaller islands belonging to Sweden, in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, brown ink and blue and green on paper, 461 x 581mm, place names supplied in French, settlements, roads and sandbanks marked in brown ink (unexamined out of frame), framed and glazed
Provenance
Edmondo di Robilant.
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Adrian Hume-Sayer