Kaarten Van de Nederlandse Antillen: Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius En Sint Maarten Tot 1900

ISBN-13: 9789004301559 / Holenderski / Twarda / 2016 / 664 str.

Aisha Geissinger; W. E. Renkema; Paula Gestel-Van Het Schip

Opis

This publication systematically categorizes and provides a nearly complete overview of the great variety of maps, both manuscript and printed, that have been made of the Dutch Antilles. The map descriptions are clarified with information on the creators of the maps and the historical background of the map image. The author has extensively studied how and for which reasons these maps were created. The cartobibliography is preceded by an extensive introduction in which the history of the islands and their inhabitants are described. In Dutch, with an English summary.