Rare and antique old maps of the Caribbean & Central_America
Scarce sea chart of the eastern Caribbean Ocean and the contiguous coastline of South America, published by the Spanish Hydrographical Office, la Direcci ón de Hidrograf ía. Originally issued in 1865, this is a rarer, updated version of 1868....
Nice detailed maps of Cuba and Jamaica, colored by departments and parishes. Shows roads, rivers, lakes, mountains, towns, bays, islands and many other details. From J David Williams rare People's Pictorial Atlas.
Detailed map of Central America and the Caribbean, hand colored by islands. Includes inset of Bermuda.
Attractive and highly detailed map of Jamaica, issued in Cram's scarce American Railway Atlas.
A Missionary Educational Map of the Caribbean for Children Fine large format map of the Caribbean, intended as an educational tool for church school children, published by the Friendship Press of New York City. The artist, Dr. Gilbert Q. LeSourd,...
Rare early map of the Audiencia of Panama, locating rivers and settlements. The earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanish cosmographer, Juan López de Velasco.
Amsterdam edition of Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas' map of the Audiencia of Quito, from his Descripcion de las Indias Occidentalis, first published as part of his Historia General, in Madrid in 1601. This map is the earliest printed Spanish map to...
Fine example of Arnold Colom's rare and highly important sea chart of most of South America, first published circa 1656. Colom's map is one of the earliest obtainable Dutch Sea Charts to show the Sea Coasts of South America and the rarest of the early...
Spanish Silver and Pirates Extremely rare early sea chart by Arent Roggeveen, showing the Panamanian Coastline, between Bahia St. Blaes and and Punta de Naes, centered on Nombre de Dios and Porta Bella. Oriented with south at the top, the map shows...
Finely executed map of a portion of Central America, extending from the East Coast of Nicaragua and Costa Rica in the northwest to Cartagena and Santa Martha in modern Columbia in the East, and centered on the Isthmus of Darien and Gulf of Panama....
Interesting map depicting the site of the short-lived Scottish colony of New Edinburgh. In 1698, William Paterson, Scottish Governor and founder of the Bank of England, proposed a plan to create a colony in modern day Panama. The Company of Scotland...
Fine example of the map of Porto Bello with a key showing points of interest. This is a very early map for the Gentleman's Magazine, the first year in which maps illustrated the book.
One of the First Maps of the Battle of Portobelo— First Plate Example Rare and highly influential plan of Portobelo, Panama based upon the sketch of Phillip Durrell, then a Lieutenant in the British Navy, and brought to London by Captain James...
Detailed map of Panama, published in Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion. Extends from Panama City at the southeast, Chagres at the northwest and Porto-Bello at the northeast. Several missions are also located. Roads and the Chagres River connect them all.
Detailed map of the Island of Jamaica and the Mosquito Coast, with the islands and shoals between, from Jefferys West India Atlas.
First Modern Map of Northern Belize, with Text from the Logwood Treaties between Britain and Spain Rare, separately published 1787 logwood map of Honduras and modern-day Belize printed by William Faden, Geographer to the King. This is the first...