Admiralty Chart of Jamaica Date of Publication_c.1690 published in Venice in 1549

published in Venice in 1549

there is a reference to Stephenson’s ‘iron tubular bridge’ across the Menai Strait

Archipel des Indes Orientales

light wear along folds

John: Opera omnia medica

Admiralty Chart of Jamaica Date of Publication_c.1690 published in Venice in 1549This chart of Jamaica shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements, and an inset of Morant Cays. First published in 1880, our example was revised in January 1914. Pullen was an experienced surveying officer, noted for survey work in New Guinea and on the Zanzibar coast. He succumbed to malaria while leading a surveying expedition on the west African coast in 1889 (reported in RGS Proceedings, 1890). Condition & Materials