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Title: Tabula Jamaicae Insulae per Edw. Slaney 1678
Creator: Slaney, Edward, cartographer
Contributor: Morden, Robert, d. 1703, publisher
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1678
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Kashnor notes, "First issue of this rare map with the frame on the right-hand bottom corner left blank. One of the earliest maps of Jamaica published in England which indicates the plantations, and in many cases the names of the owners." Cartouche: Military with coat of arms. Blank dedication cartouche.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 466.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 map : col. ; 44 x 62 cm. on sheet 53 x 62 cm.
Identifier: 105:466 M
171552
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/1066
Language: English
Time Period: 1678
Place: Caribbean
Jamaica
W 79°
W 76°/ N 19°
N 17°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.

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