A Description of the Spanish Islands and Settlements on the Coast of the West Indies

Thomas Jefferys

London : T. Jefferys, 1762.

First edition. Quarto. 25 x 20 cm. Modern crushed maroon Moroccan leather, gilt, raised bands, black leather spine labels. New marbled endpapers. Collated: 3 preliminary leaves, xxiv, 106, [2] pages. 31 maps, mostly folding;  Frontis folding map of the West Indies hand colored in outline. Fine binding and cover. Explorers Club book plate, blindstamps on title and plates. Minor toning. Offsetting and occasional spotting to plates. Restoration to the folds of several maps with 3 small holes along fold. An important work published at the cessation of hostilities at the end of the Seven Years' War, when many of these islands were ceded by Spain to France and England.  A timely and opportune work, Jefferies used captured Spanish charts to compile this atlas.  Jefferies 'is remembered in particular for some of the most important eighteenth-century maps of the Americas, a series given cohesion and impetus by the preliminary hostilities and eventual outbreak of the Seven Years' War (ODNB).   Includes maps of Pensacola, Saint Augustine, Puerto Rico, St. Domingo, Venezuela, Columbia, Havana, etc.   Refs: Sabin 35959; Palau 123372; Phillips 3941.