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(1528) Bordone, Benedetto. Cuba. In Libro... de Tutte L'Isole del Mondo. Venice. This edition: first. Size: 146 x 83 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Cuba, Jamaica. Medium: woodblock. Comments: Other editions were published in 1534, 1547, and c.1565. The woodblocks used in the four editions were carved in about 1518. The blocks and the last edition were dated using the print clock method. |
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(1548) Gastaldi, Giacomo. Isola Cvba Nova. In Geographia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino. Venice. This edition: first (only). Size: 190 x 140 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Original cartography, used in many subsequent maps by others.
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(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. |
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(1561) Ruscelli, Girolamo. Isola Cvba Nova. In La Geographica Di Claudio Tolomeo (Ptolemy). This edition: first?. Size: 260 x 178 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and western Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Other editions 1562-1599.
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(1564) Forlani, Paolo. L'Isola Cuba. Originally from a composite atlas printed 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: This map is almost entirely engraved (as opposed to etched; see Bertelli, 1566). |
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(1566) Lafreri-Bertelli. L'Isola Cuba. Originally from a composite atlas printed in Venice. This edition: first (1566). This state: first. Size: 244 x 174 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. |
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(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. |
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(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: Latin editions were published in 1597 (2), 1598, 1603 (2), and 1615. French editions were published in 1605, 1607, and 1611. From the first separately published atlas entirely devoted to the Americas. |
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(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. |
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(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: |
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(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). |
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(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..
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(1897) Century. Cuba. In The Century Atlas. Century Co., New York. This edition: 1897. Size: x mm. Language: English. Region: Cuba. Comments:
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(1898) White. "War Map of Cuba." In . This edition: 1898. Size: x mm Language: English. Region: Cuba. Comments:
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