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Cartographer: Girolamo Ruscelli
Title: : Isola Cuba Nova
Date: 1574 Size: 10 x 8 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Early copper-engraved map of Cuba, one of the earliest available maps of the island. Jamaica and Haiti also appear.
Map Ref: WIND3655

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Cartographer: Tomaso Porcacchi
Title: : Descrittione dell'Isola Cuba
Date: 1576 Size: 6 x 7 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Miniature map of Cuba with an ornate woodblock header and italian descriptive text below and on the verso. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND4099

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Cartographer: Cornelis Wytfliet
Title: : Cuba Insula et Jamaica
Date: 1611 Size: 11 x 9 inches
Published: Louvain
Description: Stunning copper-engraved map of Cuba and Jamaica from the first atlas dedicated to maps of the Americas.
Map Ref: WIND3063

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Cartographer: Petrus Bertius
Title: : Descriptio Cubae et Jamaicae
Date: 1616 Size: 5 x 4 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Early miniature map of Cuba and Jamaica. Engraved by Pieter van den Keere. Latin descriptive text on the verso. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND3722

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Cartographer: Petrus Bertius
Title: : Descriptio Cubae et Iamaciae
Date: 1616 Size: 5 x 4 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Early miniature map of Cuba and Jamaica. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND3723

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Cartographer: Vincenzo Coronelli
Title: : Isola Cuba
Date: 1696 Size: 13 x 11 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Beautiful copper-engraved chart of Cuba with a decorative cartouche depicting Bacchus, the god of wine and fertility. The map also shows the Cayman Islands, the tip of Florida, and the southern Bahamas.
Map Ref: WIND3842

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Cartographer: Alain Manesson Mallet
Title: : Is. de Cuba et de Iamaica
Date: 1719 Size: 4 x 6 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Cuba. Also shows Bahamas and Jamaica. Embellished with ships. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND4094

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Cartographer: Mount & Page
Title: : New & Correct Chart of Cuba, Streights of Bahama, Windward Passage, the Current through the Gulf of Florida with the Soundings
Date: c. 1740 Size: 25 x 19 inches
Published: London
Description: Rare sea chart of Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, south Florida, and the Cayman Islands showing the safe course through the Florida Straits. Large inset map of Havana with notes about its fortifications.
Map Ref: WIND3526

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Cartographer: Gentleman's Mag.
Title: : Plan of the City of Havanah
Date: c. 1740 Size: 4 x 8 inches
Published: London
Description: Miniature map of Havana with an accompanying key and description. Published in the Gentleman's Magazine, a monthly periodical which ran uninterrupted from 1731 to 1922. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND3983

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Cartographer: Political Magazine
Title: : A Plan of the Siege of the Havana, drawn by an Officer on the spot, 1762.
Date: 1762 Size: 12 x 8 inches
Published: London
Description: Plan of the Siege of Havana during the Seven Years' War based on a map drawn by an officer present at the battle. The siege lasted for just two months, a major victory for the British forces.
Map Ref: WIND4014

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Cartographer: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Title: : Carte Reduite de L'Isle de Cube
Date: 1762 Size: 34 x 22 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Cuba and the Southern Bahamas. Magnificent large scale sea chart. Coloured. (SL)
Map Ref: WIND3090

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Cartographer: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Title: : Carte Hydrographique de la Baye de la Havane
Date: 1762 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Large French chart of Havana with three large insets showing the city's outlying fortifications, detailed depth soundings, and an index table listing the most important buildings. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND3111

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Cartographer: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Title: : Port de la Havane dans l'Isle de Cube
Date: 1764 Size: 7 x 9 inches
Published: Paris
Description: French map of Havana with a key to the city's forts and batteries. Original hand-colour.
Map Ref: WIND3156

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Cartographer: Thomas Jefferys
Title: : The Island of Cuba with part of the Bahama Banks & the Martyrs
Date: 1775 Size: 24 x 18 inches
Published: London
Description: Cuba and the Bahama Banks. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND2749

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Cartographer: John Hamilton Moore
Title: : Plan of the City & Harbour ofHavanna, Capital of Cuba
Date: c. 1780 Size: 5 x 6 inches
Published: London
Description: Miniature map of Havana and the surrounding harbour. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND4052

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Cartographer: John Thomson
Title: : Island of Cuba
Date: c. 1816 Size: 23 x 9 inches
Published: Edinburgh
Description: Handsomely-engraved map of Cuba from Thomson's "New General Atlas". The island's central mountain range leaps off the page as a result of the engraver's delicate hachuring. Original hand-colour.
Map Ref: WIND4133

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