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(1528) Bordone, Benedetto. Isola Spagnola. In Libro... de Tutte L'Isole del Mondo. Venice. This edition: first. Size: 146 x 86 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Hispaniola. 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.

(1534) Ramusio, Giovanni Battista (also Peter Martyr, Fernández de Oviedo). In Summario de la Generale Historia de lIndie Occidentali... Isola de Spagnvola. Venice. This edition: first (1534). This state: first. Size: 280 x 200 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Hispaniola. Medium: woodblock. Comments: A second edition (and state) was printed in 1556, and the two can be distinguished by damage to some lettering in the latter state (e.g., see first "N" in PONENTE").

(1534) Ramusio, Giovanni Battista (also Peter Martyr, Fernández de Oviedo). In Raccoita di Navigationi et Viaggi... Isola de Spagnvola. Venice. This edition: second (1556). This state: second. Size: 270 x 190 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Hispaniola. Medium: woodblock. Comments: This second edition (and state) was printed in 1556, and it can be distinguished by damage to some lettering (e.g., see first "N" in PONENTE"). It is said that this block was destroyed in a fire in printing house of Tomaso Guinti so had to be recut for future editions.

(1548) Gastaldi, Giacomo. Isola Spagnola Nova. In Gastaldi's Geographia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino. Venice. This edition: first and only (1548). Size: 170 x 130 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Original cartography, used in many subsequent maps by others.

(1561) Ruscelli, Giacomo. Isola Spagnola Nova. In Geographica (Ptolemy). This edition: first?. Size: 267 x 184 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Cuba. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Other editions 1562-1599. 

(1564) Forlani, Paolo. L'Isola Spagnola. Originally from a composite atlas printed in Venice. This edition: third (ca. 1590). This state: second. Size: 255 x 183 mm. 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).

(1565) Ramusio, Giovanni Battista (also Peter Martyr, Fernández de Oviedo). In Raccoita di Navigationi et Viaggi... Isola de Spagnvola. Venice. This edition: first. Size: 275 x 275 mm. Language: Italian.

Region: Hispaniola. Medium: woodblock. Comments: Two similar versions of this map were printed in 1534 and 1556, but this is a newly carved woodblock, apparently because the earlier one was destroyed in a fire in printing house of Tomaso Guinti. Later used in 1606?

(1566) Lafreri-Bertelli. L'Isola Spagnola. Originally from a composite atlas printed in Venice. This edition: first (1566). This state: first. Size: 244 x 171 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate, with etched lines and lettering. Comments: This map is joined with Cuba on the same plate.

(1572) Porcacchi, Tommaso. Isoal Spagnuola. In L'Isole Piu Famose del Mondo. Venice. This map edition: 2nd (1576). This state: 1st. Size: 142 x 104 mm. Language: Italian. Region: Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate, with etched and engraved lines and lettering. Comments: This map was published unaltered in six editions (1572-1620), and later (recut) in 1686 and 1713. For differences among these editions, go here.

(1597) Wytfliet, Cornelius ŕ. Hispaniola Insvla. In Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum. This edition: 1597 (?). Size: 288 x 230 mm. Language: Latin. Region: 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.

(1598) Langenes. Aity Sive Spaniola. In Caert-Thresoor. This edition: 1598 (?). Size:  x  mm. Language: Dutch. Region: Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Twelve editions were published in 1598-1650, in Dutch, French, Latin, and German.

(1598) Metellus. Hispaniola Insvla. In Geographische und historische... Cologne. This edition: 1598? Size: 231 x 180 mm. Language: German.

Region: Eastern Cuba, Southern Bahamas, 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.

(1616) Bertius, Petrus. Hispaniola. In Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum (Jodocus Hondius, Jr.). Amsterdam. This edition: 1616. Size: 135 x 96 mm. Language: Latin. Region: Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments:  

 

(1635) Blaeu, Willem Jansz. Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionale, cum Teris Adiacentibus. In Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.  Amsterdam. This edition: first (1635). Pagination "D3". Size: 385 x 530 mm (entire map). Language: Latin. Region: West Indies. Medium: copperplate. Comments: Plate 242 in Burden (1996).

 

(1707) Van der Aa.  Amsterdam. This edition: (1707). Size:  x  mm

Language:  Region: Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments:

(1756) Le Rouge.  Paris. This edition: (1756). Size:  x  mm

Language: French  Region: Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments:

(1764) Bellin. This edition: (1764). Size:  x  mm. Language: French

Region: Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments:

 

(1815) Thomson. This edition: (1815). Size:  x  mm. Language: French. Region: Hispaniola. Medium: copperplate. Comments:

(1897) Century. Hispaniola. In The Century Atlas. Century Co., New York. This edition: 1897. Size:  x   mm. Language: English. Region: Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad. Comments: