CARIBMAP: Cayman Islands

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	(1528) Bordone, Benedetto. Cuba. In Libro... de Tutte L'Isole del Mondo. Venice. This edition: first. Size: x mm. Language: Italian. Region: Cuba, Jamaica. Medium: woodblock. Comments: Other editions were published in 1534, 1547, and c.1565. For differences among these editions, go here (coming soon). Could some of those small islands in lower left be the Caymans?
	(1548) Gastaldi, Giacomo. Isola Cvba Nova. In Geographia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino. Venice. This edition: first (only). Size: x mm. Language: Italian. Region: Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Original cartography, used in many subsequent maps by others. The Caymans are indicated as "ys de lagartos."
	(1550) Munster, Sebastian. Cvba. In Cosmographia (p. 1263). Basle. This edition: unknown. Size: 121 x 76 mm. Language: German. Region: Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: woodblock. Comments: Other editions 1552-1628. Copied by Johannes Honter De Cosmographia Rudimentis (p. 940), 1561 and 1595. See Cueto (1999), p. 60, 77. The Caymans are indicated as "Lagartos."
	(1561) Ruscelli, Girolamo. Isola Cvba Nova. In La Geographica Di Claudio Tolomeo (Ptolemy). This edition: first?. Size: x mm. Language: Italian. Region: Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Other editions 1562-1599. Caymans are "Ys: de Lagartos"
	(1564) Forlani, Paolo. L'Isola Cuba. In ....Venice. This edition: first. This state: first. Size: 229 x 161mm. Language: Italian. Region: Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate, with engraved lines and lettering. Comments: Caymans are "Ysl: d'Lagartos."
	(1566) Lafreri-Bertelli. L'Isola Cuba. In ....Venice. This edition: first (1566). This state: first. Size: 171 x 343 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate, with etched lines and lettering. Comments: This map is joined with Hispaniola on the same plate. Caymans are "Ysli d'Lagartos."
	(1572) Porcacchi, Tommaso. Cvba. In L'Isole Piu Famose del Mondo. Venice. This edition: 1620. Size: 142 x 104 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate, with etched and engraved lines and lettering. Comments: This map was published unaltered in six editions (1572-1620), and later in 1686 and 1713. For differences among these editions, go here. Caymans are "Y de Lagartos."
	(1597) Wytfliet, Cornelius à. Cvba Insvla et Iamaica. In Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Avgmentvm. Louvain. This edition: unknown. Size: 287 x 227 mm. Language: Latin. Region: Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Grand Cayman ("Cayman mag") and "Caymanes" are distinguished.
	(1598) Metellus. Cvba Insvla et Jamaica. In Geographische und historische...Landschafft America. Cologne. This edition: 1598? Size: 233 x 183 mm. Language: German. Region: Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments: See Burden (1996) pp. 143-150 for discussion of relation between Metellus and Wytfliet maps and rarity of the former. Grand Cayman ("Cayman mag") and "Caymanes" are distinguished.
	(1616) Bertius, Petrus. Cuba. In Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum (Jodocus Hondius, Jr.). Amsterdam. This edition: first. Size: 135 x 96 mm. Language: Latin. Region: Cuba, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments:
	(1635) Blaeu, Willem Jansz. Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionale, cum Teris Adiacentibus. In Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Amsterdam. This edition: first. Pagination "D3". Size: 385 x 530 mm (entire map). Language: Latin. Region: West Indies. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Plate 242 in Burden (1996).
	(1780) Bonne, Rigobert. l'Isle de Cuba. In, Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre. Paris. This edition: 1780. Size:330 x 230 mm. Language: French. Region: Cuba. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Map #39 of the atlas..