Fine Books and Manuscripts

A Chart of ye West-Indies or the Islands of America in the North Sea &c. London: for Thomas and John Bowles, ca 1740.Engraved folding map of the Golf of Mexico and the Carribbean, image 284 x 352 mm (312 x 368 mm sheet). Inset map of Vera Cruz, compass roses. (A few short tears crossing image repaired on verso, tiny hole to fold.) Includes comments on the movement of Spanish galleons around the region, and depicts the present-day southeastern United States, Central America, and the Carribbean.