Cartography of Jamaica
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List of maps of Jamaica
)The Cartography of Jamaica is the history of surveying and creation of maps of Jamaica. A list of maps of Jamaica in chronological order is shown below.
1494–1949
K#[1] | Date | Title | Carto- grapher |
Description | Image |
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1 | 1528 | Map of Jamaica | Benedetto Bordone | A very simple map of Jamaica from Bordone's Isolario (The Book of Islands), printed in Venice in 1528. | |
2 | 1562 | Isola Cuba Nova | Girolamo Ruscelli | Fragment showing Jamaica from an early map of Cuba in Ruscelli's Atlas, probably the 1562 edition, published in Italy.[2] | |
4 | 1572 | Jamaica | Tomaso Porcacchi |
Early map of Jamaica (and part of Cuba) engraved by Girolamo Porro for Porcacchi's book L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo, first published in Venice in 1572.[3] | |
8 | 1631 | Map of the Caribbean | Gerardus Mercator(?) | Fragment showing Jamaica from map of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hispaniola and S Margarita Island (off the coast of Venezuela) in the first Cloppenburgh edition of the large-format Mercator-Hondius Atlas Minor, published in Amsterdam, 1630.[4] | |
13 | 1671 | Novissima et Accura-tissima Jamaicae Descriptio | John Ogilby | Engraved by F Lamb, includes a table showing plantations, precincts and settlements on the island.[5] | |
17 | 1671 | A new and exact map of the isle of Jamaica | Richard Bloome | Survey carried out on the instructions of the Governor Thomas Modyford divided into precincts and parishes | |
22 | 1676 | Jamaica and Barbados | John Speed | Top half of a hand tinted map of Jamaica and Barbados printed by Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell, London, England. On the reverse there is a description of the two islands.[6] | |
26 | 1680 | Jamaica | Nicolaes Visscher II | ||
1683 | de Cuba et de Iamaica | Alain Manesson Mallet | An extract showing Jamaica from an engraving in Mallet's Description de L'Univers published by Thierry, Paris, 1683.[7] | ||
1684 | A New and Exact Mapp of the Island of Jamaica | Charles Bochart and Humphrey Knollis[8] | |||
24 | 1688 | Insula Jamaica | Robert Morden | ||
49 | 1710 | Neiuwe Kaart van het Eyland Jamaica | Hermann Moll |
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1711 | Jamaica | ||||
1715 | A New Map of the English Empire in the Ocean of America or West Indies |
John Senex | |||
1717 | A New Map of the Island of Jamaica | Herman Moll | |||
54 | 1720 | The island of Jamaica divided into its principal parishes... | Herman Moll | ||
1728 | The Island of Jamaica | Herman Moll | |||
1730 | Dominia Anglorum præcipuis in Insulis Americæ | Homann's Heirs | |||
65 | 1744 | A New and Accurate Map of the Island of Jamaica | Emanuel Bowen | ||
64 | 1746 | La Jamaique | Georges-Louis Le Rouge | ||
66 | 1753 | Carte de l'Isle de Jamaique | Jacques-Nicolas Bellin | ||
71 | 1755 | A new map of Jamaica ... from actual surveys made ... from the year 1730 to 1749[8] | Patrick Browne | ||
1757 | A Correct Map of Jamaica | Georg Dionysius Ehret | |||
77 | 1758 | Carte de l'Isle de Jamaique | Jacques-Nicolas Bellin | ||
76 | 1758 | Carte Particularie De L’ Isle De La Jamaique | Jacques-Nicolas Bellin | ||
1760 | A Correct Map of Jamaica | ||||
83 | 1762 | A Correct Map of the Island of Jamaica | John Gibson | ||
89 | 1765 | A New Map of the Island of Jamaica | Thomas Kitchin | ||
101 | 1775 | Jamaica | Thomas Jeffreys |
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104 | 1779 | La Giammaica | Antonio Zatta | ||
105 | 1780 | Carte de l'Isle de la Jamaique | Rigobert Bonne | ||
131 | 1794 | A Map of the Island of Jamaica | Bryan Edwards | ||
141 | 1805 | Charte von Jamaica | Jean Baptiste Marie George Bory de Saint Vincent |
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1812 | Isle de la Jamaique | Arrowsmith | |||
145 | 1814 | Jamaica | John Thomson | ||
150 | 1822 | Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Jamaica |
Carrey & Lea | ||
151 | 1823 | Jamaica | Fielding Lucas | ||
152 | 1825 | Jamaique | J A Buchon | ||
1835 | The British Island in the West Indies | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | |||
1836 | Jamaica | J & C Walker | |||
1850 | Tourist Map of the Island of Jamaica | Edward Vincent D'Invilliers | |||
1851 | Jamaica | J Rapkin / J Tallis | |||
1854 | Jamaica | Harvey Newcomb | |||
1859 | Map of Haiti and Jamaica | Edward Weller | |||
1860 | Island of Jamaica | Fullarton | |||
1880 | General Chart of the Island of Jamaica | John Purdy | |||
1882 | Outline Map of Jamaica | Dangerfield | |||
1892 | Cuba and Jamaica | D Appleton & Co | |||
1903 | Jamaica | Dodd, Mead and Company |
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1908 | Jamaica Earthquake | Vaughn Cornish | |||
1910 | Jamaica | Cram |
1950–1979
The 1:50,000 series
Between the early 1950s and the late 1970s the UK
Directorate of Overseas Surveys
published several editions of a series of maps of Jamaica at the scale of 1:50,000. The following table summarises the known publication dates. Online copies can be found on Commons or at the University of Texas Libraries.
Sheet | First Edition | Second Edition | Third Edition | Commons | University of Texas |
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Sheet A | 1959 | First edition | First edition | ||
Sheet B | 1958 | First edition | First edition | ||
Sheet C | 1959 (reprinted 1973) | First edition | First edition | ||
Sheet D | 1959 (reprinted 1974) | First edition | First edition | ||
Sheet E | 1958 (reprinted 1974) | First edition | First edition | ||
Sheet F | 1958 (reprinted 1974) | First edition | First edition | ||
Sheet G | 1958 | 1973 | First edition | ||
Sheet H | 1958 | 1973 (reprinted 1974) | First edition | ||
Sheet K | 1970 (reprinted 1974) | Third edition | |||
Sheet L | 1954 | 1966 (reprinted 1970 & 1973) | Third edition | ||
Sheet M | 1954 | 1967 (reprinted 1973) | Third edition | ||
Sheet N | 1954 | 1967 (reprinted 1971) | Third edition |
Others
K#[1] | Date | Title | Cartographer |
Description |
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1967 | Jamaica Road Map | Esso | ||
1972 | Jamaica Road Map | Texaco |
1979–present
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Town plans
Kingston
The 1:10,000 series
Between the early 1950s and the early 1970s the UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys published several editions of a series of maps of Kingston at the scale of 1:50,000. The following table summarises the known publication dates. Online copies can be found at the University of Texas Libraries.
Sheet | First Edition | Second Edition | Third Edition | University of Texas |
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Central sheet | 1962 | First edition | ||
Sheet 1 | 1965 | 1972 | First edition | |
Sheet 2 | 1965 | 1972 | First edition | |
Sheet 3 | 1963 | 1972 | First edition | |
Sheet 4 | 1964 | 1972 | First edition | |
Sheet 5 | 1964 | 1972 | First edition | |
Sheet 6 | 1964 | 1972 | First edition |
Others
Date | Title | Carto- grapher |
Description | |
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1702 | A Plan of Kingston | Christian Lilly | Map which may have been the combined work of John Goffe and Christian Lilly to provide a plan for the newly founded city.[9][10] | |
1740-45 | Plan of Kingston | Michael Hay | Map dedicated to Jamaica's governor Edward Trelawny. Several possible dates are given for its publication.[11][12] | |
1764 | Plan de la Ville de Kingston | Jacques Nicolas Bellin | From the author's Le Petit Atlas Maritime, published in Paris, France in 1764.[13] | |
1891-06 | Kingston and environs | War Office | A Admiralty charts, updated with the observations of five army officers. The illustration shows an extract depicting Kingston Harbour.[14] |
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1897 | The City of Kingston | James H. Stark | From the author's Stark's Jamaica Guide.[15] |
Montego Bay
- Petrol company road maps
- Esso, 1967, on reverse
- Texaco, 1972, on reverse
Spanish Town
- Petrol company road maps
- Esso, 1967, on reverse
- Texaco, 1972, on reverse
Mandeville
- Petrol company road maps
- Esso, 1967, on reverse
- Texaco, 1972, on reverse
Bibliography
- Higman, B W & Hudson, B J (2009). "Place names and history". Jamaican Place Names. Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press. pp. 13–18. ISBN 978-976-640-217-4.
- Kapp, Kit S (1968). The Printed Maps of Jamaica up to 1825. Kingston, Jamaica: Bolivar Press.
References
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- ^ "jamaica: kingston - Patricia E. Green Architects". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
- ^ Mann, Emily (2016-03-24). "Story of cities #9: Kingston, Jamaica – a city born of 'wickedness' and disaster". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
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- ^ "Jonathan Potter". Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ "1897". Kingston, Jamaica. 2012-08-18. Retrieved 2021-03-14.