Lot 208
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A Draft of the Golden & Adjacent Islands, with part of ye Isthmus of Darien as it was taken by Capt. Ienefer. where ye Scots West-India Company were settled...a New Map of ye Isthjmus of Darien in America, the Bay of Panama, the gulph of Vallona or St Michael, with its islands & Countries adjacent, [(?) London: ca. 1730], 2 hand-coloured engraved maps on one sheet, 590 x 485mm., in window mount. With Frederick de Witt's Magni Mogolis Imperium. (2)

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A Draft of the Golden & Adjacent Islands, with part of ye Isthmus of Darien as it was taken by Capt. Ienefer. where ye Scots West-India Company were settled...a New Map of ye Isthjmus of Darien in America, the Bay of Panama, the gulph of Vallona or St Michael, with its islands & Countries adjacent, [(?) London: ca. 1730], 2 hand-coloured engraved maps on one sheet, 590 x 485mm., in window mount. With Frederick de Witt's Magni Mogolis Imperium. (2)

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The first map relates to the Darien Expedition, a Scottish attempt to colonise the Panama isthmus between 1698-99 which failed disastrously owing to the climate and Spanish hostility. One letterpress note reads "Here ye Indians came down to us & were very kind in helping us to provision although in continual war with the Spaniards."

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