By Jodocus Hondius (Joost de Hondt)
In Purchas His Pilgrimes in Five Bookes, part 3, p. 861
Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, London, 1625
Overall: 14.5 cm x 18.5 cm
Separate parts—Cuba Insul: 7 cm x 13.5 cm; Hispaniola: 7 cm x 13.5 cm; Havana Portus: 3 cm x 4.5 cm; I. Iamaica: 3 cm x 4.5 cm; I. S. Ioannis: 3 cm x 4.5 cm; I. Margareta: 2.5 cm x 4.5 cm
Watermarked paper. Right edge of page appears to have been trimmed in binding, slightly cutting into the map’s lower right margin, so a strip of paper has been added. Book page headed “Chap. I. Spanish plantations in Hispaniola, S. Domingo. Sugar planted. 861.” This was originally from the Atlas Minor by Gerard Mercator and Johannes Janssonius, 1628. It displays six separately framed maps, Cuba at the top with Hispaniola below, and stacked insets at the left, of Havana Port, Jamaica, St. John, and Margarita (island off the coast of Venezuela, northwest of Trinidad). The text, in English, describes the city of Santo Domingo and its history under the Spanish and the introduction of sugar cane. The reverse is text headed “Spanish plantations, Ports, numbers in Hispaniola.”