COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
08569
File Name:
08569-043
Call number:
Z Z1 7 /3-SIZE
Map title:
The Bay of Honduras
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map and Printseller No. 53 in Fleet Street
Publication date:
20 Feby. 1775
Map size height:
55 cm.
Map size width:
74.5 cm.
Item description:
engraved map [43] of 53 maps, hand colored
Geographical description:
Chart of Honduras and the bay of Honduras. Includes the Moskito coast where British settlements are shown. Includes soundings, indication of shallows, rivers, settlements, and lakes. Relief shown pictorially. Also shows ships, compass rose, and location of native tribes.
Source title:
West Indies, Do. Seperate [sic] Islands, South America [binder's title]
Source place:
[Providence? 1840]
Cartobibliographic notes:
This map was bound into a volume of 53 maps for John Carter Brown around 1840. The first map, Herman Moll, "A map of the West-Indies," London, ca. 1720 (08569-1-000) was removed from the volume and is housed separately.
References:
Phillips 1165
Geographic Area:
North America
Scale 1:
1,500,000
Normalized date:
1775
Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771
The Bay of Honduras
