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Caribbean - Brue, Adrien-Hubert (1786 - 1832)Biblio.com

Carte Génerale des Îles Antilles d'une Partie Du Mexique Des États-Unis et de L'Amérique Méridionale.

1821Best.-Nr. 200023AG1821. Paris Brué 1821. Original engraving. Plate Size: 50.5 cm x 36.1 cm. Sheet Size: 68 cm x 54.1 cm. Original map. Very good condition. Extra wide margins. Some minor foxing along sheet edges. Discreet author's blind stamp with 'Carte Encyprotipe' and initials 'AB' embossed in top corner of map. Centre-fold as issued. Border with longitudinal and latitudinal information. Detailed early map of the Caribbean from an early edition of Brue's Atlas Universel Pl.35. Rich detail in Florida the Gulf Coast Central America. The eye is drawn to Cuba among the islands of the 'Grandes' and 'Petites' Antilles. As demonstrated by the map's political divisions and colourings Mexico has yet cede control of what will become Texas. Nouva Espagne and Nouv Grenade show that the aged and tottering Spanish empire has still to fall in Central and South America. The division of Hispaniola into its Haitian and Dominican parts is also shown. The great port cities of the infant United States - Charlestown Savannah and New Orleans - can be seen along the seaboard. Bermuda is shown breaching the map's top border. Reference keys and explanatory annotations and four scale-bars in lower left corner of map. Decorative title in top right corner of map. Adrien-Hubert Brué 1786 - 1832 was a renowned French cartographer. Between 1810 and 1830 Brué established himself as one of the most important French cartographers and it was during this period that his two most important works were published: Grand Atlas Universel in 1815 and Atlas Universel in 1822 which ran to several editions. Atlas Universel was published as a continuation to Grand Atlas Universel. Brués maps or cards as they were referred to at the time were characterized by the high degree of accuracy with which they were produced and the meticulous attention to detail employed in their crafting. This was possible due to Brués application of copper plate intaglio to the process of mapmaking or as Nouvelles Annales des Voyages et des Sciences Géographiques had it: by applying to the making of cards this ingenious process of drawing on copper itself. Alexandre von Humboldt the President of the Société de géographie de Paris praised the accuracy of his work and clarity that is all the more pleasing to the eye. He also was quick to update his maps with the latest scientific discoveries and nautical measurements. Wikipedia unknown

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Caribbean - Tallis, John / Rapkin, John (1817 - 1876)Biblio.com

West India Islands - Including the Bahama Islands Cuba Jamaica San Domingo and Haiti Porto Rico the Caribee Islands and Trinidad. With a Vignettes of Kingston Jamaica from the Commercial Room.

1851Best.-Nr. 200111AG1851. London & New York J & F. Tallis 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Warren and Engraved by J. Rogers. Plate Size: 25 cm x 35 cm. Sheet Size: 27 cm x 37.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. A beautiful map of the West Indies: from the Bahamas in the North near the southern tip of Florida down to Barbados and Trinidad of the coast of Colombia. Cuba Jamaica Hispaniola San Domingo and Haiti Porto Rico the Virgin Islands and the myriad of smaller islands throughout the Caribbean Sea are also included. The Mosquito Coast in modern Nicaragua Guatemala and the Panama isthmus can also be seen. Relief depicted with hachuring. The major towns and cities across this region such as Havana Kingston and Port Royal Port Republican Port-au-Prince and Cartagena are also shown. A depiction of native peasants and a medallion complete this pleasant map. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown

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