Jun 07, 2018 - Sale 2481

Sale 2481 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 15,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
BAKER, SAMUEL. A New and Exact Map of the Island of St. Christopher in America, According to an Actual and Accurate Survey Made in the Year 1753. Describing the Several Parishes with their Respective Limits, Contents, & Churches, also the High Ways, the Situation of every Gentleman's Plantation, Mills and Houses; with the Rivers and Gutts. Likewise the Bays, Roads, Rocks, Shoals and Soundings that Surround the Whole. Large engraved map of St. Kitts on four sheets joined. 46 1/2x56 1/2 inches overall size, wide margins; original outline hand-color; light toning and offsetting, few minor reinforcements on verso. London: T. Bowles and John Bowles, [1753]
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the finest eighteenth century map of st. christopher. This "detailed and carefully executed map" (Sellers and Van Ee) shows the island of St. Christopher, or St. Kitts, divided into its early parishes with a wealth of early information relating to the island's government, residential and commercial properties. The title, scale and dedication to the Lords Commissioners of the Navy are presented in an attractive Baroque ornamental style. An inset of the "Leeward Caribbee Islands" appears at the upper right; a list of subscriber's names including government officials, agencies and all the major early planters of the island appears in columns along either side of the map. Tooley, "Printed Maps of St. Kitts, St. Lucia & St. Vincent" (MCS 81), 28; Sellers & Van Ee 1985.