COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-6860
File Name:
C-6860
Call number:
Cabinet GM737 LaA75
Map title:
Algemeene Kaart van de Colonie of Provintie van Suriname, ...
Place of Publication:
Te Amsterdam
Publisher:
by Covens en Mortier
Publication date:
[ca. 1758]
Map size height:
59.5 cm.
Map size width:
88.5 cm.
Item description:
engraving, hand coloring
Geographical description:
Map of Surinam with inset map of the coast of Guiana showing the area enlarged for the map and with an inset plan of Paramaribo. Cartographic elements include scales, compass rose, location of plantations with names of owners, native American towns and maroon communities, the Jewish Savannah, and where a slave rebellion occured. Decorative elements include ships and coat of arms of Suriname flanked by native Americans. The names of the plantation owners are given in keys at right and left.
Cartobibliographic notes:
This map is the third edition of the "small Lavaux" map, originally published by Hendrik de Leth, Amsterdam 1737. Lavaux had entered the service of the Society of Suriname in 1729.
References:
Phillips, P.L. Maps 3448, v. 9, no. 87-88; Koeman, C. Surinam Bibliography, 12.
Geographic Area:
South America
Historical notes:
The Jewish Savannah, the first permanent Jewish settlement in the New World, was settled first by Portuguese Jews between 1635 and 1639. During the first half of the eighteenth century, the 2,000 inhabitants of the Jewish Savannah constituted half of Suriname's white population.
Normalized date:
1758
Creator:
Aleander de Lavaux
Algemeene Kaart van de Colonie of Provintie van Suriname, ...
