Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

248 c   MINISTERIO DE MARINA — DIRECCION DE HIDROGRAFIA. Portulano de la America Setentrional. 106 engraved charts of harbors and port cities, engraved title- page, four divisional titles with contents lists. Oblong 4to, 9 1 / 2 x14 inches, contemporary calf over worn boards, some worm damage to spine head and foot; worming to preliminaries and terminal charts, dampstain throughout. should be seen . Madrid, 1809 [5,000/7,500] First edition of this rare atlas of Spanish controlled harbors in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Part I Puertos de la Islas Antillas * Part II Puertos de las Costas de Tierra-Firme, Florida y Seno Mexicano * Part III Puertos de la Isla de Cuba * Part IV Puertos de las Islas de Santo Domingo y Jamaica. Plate 30 of Part II represents the earliest separately printed chart of Galveston Bay, Texas. Phillips 1223 (variant).