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Cartographer: Richard Ligon
Title: : A topographicall Description and Admeasurement of the Yland of Barbados in the West Indyaes
Date: 1657 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: London
Description: This rare map of Barbados is the earliest printed map of the island. It names the owners of all of the principal houses and estates, and is decorated with vignettes of armoured riders, camels, wild pigs, and sea monsters.
Map Ref: WIND4153

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Cartographer: John Speed
Title: : A Map of Jamaica | Barbados
Date: 1676 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: London
Description: John Speed's celebrated maps of Barbados and Jamaica printed together on one page. From the first world atlas by an Englishman, 'A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World'. English text on verso. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND3005

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Cartographer: Robert Morden
Title: : The Island of Barbados
Date: 1688 Size: 5 x 7 inches
Published: London
Description: Attractive miniature map of Barbados with a charming contemporary description of the island below and on the verso. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND4232

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Cartographer: Herman Moll
Title: : The Island of Barbadoes
Date: c. 1735 Size: 14 x 11 inches
Published: Dublin
Description: George Grierson's Irish edition of Herman Moll's richly detailed map of Barbados, divided into parishes and showing roads and paths "according to an actual and accurate survey".
Map Ref: WIND4208

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Cartographer: Mount & Page
Title: : Barbados
Date: c. 1740 Size: 10 x 15 inches
Published: London
Description: Crude English sea chart of Barbados marking hazardous shoals and safe harbours. Decorated with rhumb lines and a compass rose. Below the map is a description and a profile of the island. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND3201

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Cartographer: Gerard van Keulen
Title: : Nieuwe Land en Zeekart ven het Eyland Barbados geleegen in West India onder de Caibesse Eylanden
Date: 1753 Size: 20 x 23 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: This Dutch sea chart of Barbados is remarkable for the quality of its detail of the island's interior. Plantations and sugar mills are marked, and there is a small inset of Bridgetown. Strong impression.
Map Ref: WIND3233

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Cartographer: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Title: : Carte de L'Isle de la Barbade
Date: 1758 Size: 16 x 22 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Barbados. Decorative sea chart of the island with churches, settlements, and mountain ranges marked. Known reefs and rocks along the coast of the island are also included on the map.
Map Ref: WIND4140

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Cartographer: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Title: : Carte de L'Isle de la Barbade
Date: c. 1759 Size: 6 x 8 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Barbados divided into its parishes. Published in 'Histoire générale des Voyages' by Abbé Antoine François Prévost with maps provided by J.N. Bellin, Royal Hydrographer to King Louis XIV. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND4231

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Cartographer: Bryan Edwards
Title: : A Map of the Island of Barbadoes
Date: 1794 Size: 7 x 9 inches
Published: London
Description: The island of Barbados showing the location of the parishes and taken from local surveys obtained by the planter, Bryan Edwards. Coloured.
Map Ref: WIND4191

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Cartographer: John Thomson
Title: : Barbadoes
Date: c. 1820 Size: 12 x 20 inches
Published: London
Description: Map of the island of Barbados with individual plantations and sugar mills marked, and featuring delicate hachuring to show relief. Original hand-colour.
Map Ref: WIND4251

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Cartographer: Margaret Swainson Anderson
Title: : Road Map of Barbados
Date: 1952 Size: 18 x 22 inches
Published: N/A
Description: Vintage road map of Barbados adapted from Admiralty charts. Original colour.
Map Ref: WIND4246

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