Jefferys, Thomas.

First edition, folio (540 x 380mm.), letterpress title and double-page engraved pictorial additional title, 41 mostly double-page engraved charts dated 1775, 2 additional maps (see footnote), engraved vignette at head of dedication, text on14 leaves, engraved head- and tail-pieces, maps re-guarded, new endpapers, later half calf over marbled boards, [Phillips, Atlases 2699; NMM Catalogue 3, 360], additional title supplied from another copy, some marginal fraying and soiling, maps 10 and 11 strengthened at margins, last 2 additional maps with repaired tears, a few margins restored, evidence of library stamps

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First edition of this important atlas of the West Indies.

Sixteen of the charts form, if joined, a large general chart of the West Indies extending from the Gulf coast of Texas, Florida and the Bahamas in the north, to Venezuela and the Guianas in the south. Others are detailed surveys of the commercially important individual islands, including the Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Barbados, Tobago, Curaçao, the Turks islands, Bermuda and others.

The additional maps at the end are: De la Rochette. A Chart of the Coasts of Spain and Portugal. London: W. Faden, 1799 and J.S. Speer, Plan of the Three Ports of Ferrol [i.e. Coruna, Spain], Betanse and Corogne. London, 1773.