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Description

Rare large map of the Virgin Islands, engraved by James Basire for the House of Commons Papers Related to Captured Negroes, printed February 24, 1826.

This fine map accompanied The Second Part of The Report on the Negroes condemned to The Crown in the Court of Vice Admiralty at Tortoal, since the Abolition of the Slave Trade, an important slave trade, abolition work, commissioned by the British House of Commons in 1824. Moody submitted his first report on March 2nd 1825.

The map extends from Culebra and Culebrita at the eastern tip of Puerto Rico to Anegada Island and Horse Shoe Island in the northeast and Virgin Gorda in the east.

The map provides topographical details, reefs, harbors, anchorages and other information, including the location of over a dozen Spanish, British, French and American shipwrecks between 1790 and 1812. The two profile views show approaches to Virgin Gorda.

This is the only example of the map we have seen on the market without the pamphlet. We find no auction records for the pamphlet.