Place

Caribbean

Featured Items

Detail of an engraved, colored map of Jamaica shows Kingston Harbor outlined in a greenish blue color and St. Andrew. Other surrounding locations labeled in English.

To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the Island of Jamaica...

James Robertson
1804
Detail of an engraved, hand colored full-page illustration shows a yam.

A collection of exotics, from the Island of Antigua

Lydia Byam
1797
Detail of a colored manuscript map shows text in Spanish over Hispaniola reading "Isla de Sto. Domingo" with other smaller labels.

Descripcion de las costas de tierra firme de la America Septentrional

Antonio de Matos
1740
Detail of a printed page shows text in Latin.

Christoforo Columbus, de insulis inventis, 1493

1493
stained title page of a printed pamphlet with a blue cover

Calendrier pour l’année 1807

1806-1807
printed list and descriptions of commodities

General orders of the government of officers in the plantations

H. Teape
1764-1805
Detail of a manuscript map shows coastal profiles and women or mermaids holding the flags of Ireland, Scotland, and England.

Mountserrat island, ms. 1673

William Blathwayt
1673

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Voyage to the Islands: Hans Sloane, Slavery, and Scientific Travel in the Caribbean

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colored map of Saint-Domingue

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Women of the Page: Convent Culture in the Early Modern Spanish World

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