De Eylanden en Vastelanden van Westindien

Title: De Eylanden en Vastelanden van Westindien
Date: ca. 1639?
Author/Creator: Vinckeboons (Vingboons), Joan (Johannes) (1616–1670).
Publisher: [unknown]
Size: 48 x 69 cm.
Description: 1 ms. map : col., paper backing ; 48 x 69 cm.
Language of Item: Dutch
Permanent Unique Identifier: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3300.lh000029
Notes: - Relief shown pictorially. - Shows the coasts of North America and South America from Virginia through the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico to Guiana in South America highlighting Cuba, the island of Hispaniola and the West Indies. - Pen-and-ink and watercolor. - Described in Terrae incognitae, v. xvi, 1984. Richard W. Stephenson's The Henry Harrisse collection ... , p. 40; the first volume has binder's title "Manuscript maps of the West-Indies drawn by Joan Vingboons in 1639." - No. 190 in Quatrième centenaire de la découverte de l'Amérique. Catalogue des documents géographique exposés à ... la Bibliothèque nationale. Paris, 1802. - LC Luso-Hispanic world, 29 - Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Manuscript or Print: Manuscript
Original or Facsimile Edition: Original
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Atlantic coast (North America)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Atlantic coast (North America)--Discovery and exploration--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Atlantic Coast (South America)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Atlantic Coast (South America)--Discovery and exploration--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Library of Congress Subject Heading: North America--Atlantic coast
Library of Congress Subject Heading: South America--Atlantic coast
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Highlight: This early seventeenth-century map, rendered in pen-and-ink and watercolor, takes a Greater Caribbean perspective, ranging from Virginia in the north to the Yucatan Peninsula and to Guiana in the south. Vingboons produced a number of Caribbean maps.