St. Domingo

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Decriptio Hispaniolae.

A miniature map of Hispaniola, (modern day Haiti and Dominican Republic), as well as the extreme eastern parts of Cuba. With a simple strap-work title and a scale in Germ...

$150 / ≈ €140

Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606

[Black slaves escape punishment].

Scarce print with a German text sheet. Many Black slaves, weary of ill treatment, managed to escape Spanish captivity and freely wandered the island, breaking into prison...

$80 / ≈ €75

Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

[Religious ritual on Hispaniola].

Scarce print with a German text sheet.On certain feast-days the Indian cacique, while beating a drum, led a procession of his people to the worship of their idol, which w...

$80 / ≈ €75

Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

[Collective suicide under Spanish rule.]

The natives of Hispaniola, who saw no end to the fearful oppression of Spanish rule, preferred death. So many, devoid of all hope, went into the woods to kill their child...

$80 / ≈ €75

Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

Carte de la Dominique Prise par les Francois le 7 Septembre 1778. Avec le Plan du Debarquement et de l'Attaque des Forts et Batteries par les Troupes et Les Fregates de sa Majeste

A rare map of St. Dominica, with insets of Charlotteville with its attack by the French on 7 September 1778 on the British. Also small inset map of the Caribbean islands ...

$500 / ≈ €468

Maker / Publisher: BUACHE, S.
Place & Date: Paris, 1778