1825 Buchon "Carte Geographique...de la Jamaica"

Pacific Shore Maps

Title: “Carte Geographique...de la Jamaique”

Cartographer: Jean Alexandre Buchon

Date and Place: 1825; Paris

Publisher: J. Carez

Reference: “Atlas Geographique des Deux Ameriques”

Dimensions & Type: 18 x 24 inches(45 x 60 cm)inches overall; map is 11 x11 inches (28 x 28 cm). Engraving

Condition: VG+, very strong strike and quite clean

Description:

In1822, Henry Charles Carey and Isaac Lea published their American Atlas. This volume was based on Emmanuel Las Cases' Atlas Historique of 1803, with updated maps and text modified by Carey, a political economist. The atlas was republished in Paris in 1825 by J.A. Buchon and is considered by many to be of finer quality both in terms of engraving and paper (certainly  true in the latter case here).  In Buchon’s edition he notes that the atlas is translated from an atlas done in America based on Le Sage and that he (Buchon) has made “nombreuses corrections et augmentations”.  Of interest, the volume from which this map is taken was dedicated to the Duc d’Orleans.

Jamaica colored by Counties (Cornwall, Middlesex and Surry). In the surrounding text, the history of the island takes up two columns and is amazingly detailed. The map itself is nicely engraved and has numerous place and geographic features named.