Details

Subject(s)

• Harbors—West Indies—Maps [Browse]
• Mexico—Maps [Browse]
• Central America—Maps [Browse]
• West Indies—Maps [Browse]
• Jamaica—Maps [Browse]
• Havana (Cuba)—Maps [Browse]
• Port Royal (Jamaica)—Maps [Browse]
• Kingston (Jamaica)—Maps [Browse]

Related name

• J.C. Smith & Son [Browse]
• Harper & Brothers [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Central America—1855 [Browse]
• Maps—Mexico—1855 [Browse]
• Maps—West Indies—1855 [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
• Shows sailing routes through the West Indies, indicated by passage, major cities and ports; lower Mexico, Northwest coast of South America, Texas as part of United States; layouts of cities in port insets; parishes, towns and estates for inset of Jamaica; "Gr. Bahama Banx" spelled with an "x."
• Includes key to "Abreviations of the Names of the Nations possessing the West India Is." and notes.
• "Transferred and Printed for J.C. Smith & Son by D. McLellan."
• From: Harpers Statistical Gazetteer of the World, 1855.
• Insets: The harbour and city of Havana -- Jamaica -- The harbours of Port Royal & Kingston.

References

Tooley. Dictionary of Mapmakers. Rev. Ed., 2001

Place name(s)

Great Britain England London.

OCLC

725892568

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