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Nueva Carta Del Canal De Bahama
This rare Spanish publication shows the Florida peninsular and and all of the islands adjacent.
|Size Of Original:||w 38" x h 26"|
|Paper Type||Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gsm|
The Spanish agency, the Dirección de Hidrografía, was set up in the late 18th century to disseminate accurate sailing information, much about the same time as the British with their Hydrographic branch of the Royal Navy. The Spanish were of course the first major sponsors of discovery in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and mainland Florida. As far back as the beginning of the 16th century they had started compiling cartographic information on these regions although the information was held as secret. Much of the British and French information was published privately.