Auction 92
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Feb 18, 2021
USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
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LOT 137:
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
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Start price:
$
850
Estimated price:
$1,000 - $1,500
Auction house commission: 25%
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(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
A Plan of Bridge Town, in the Island of Barbadoes.
Hand-colored map, engraved by J. Gibson.
Touch foxed at right margin. 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm).
(London: 1766)
The central party of the old town is designated here: “Swan Street, or Jew Street.” Appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, September 1766, Vol. 36, p. 425. Shows the extent of the fi re of May 14th, 1766. Published facing an appeal “on behalf of the unfortunate inhabitants of Bridge Town.” (Unshaded area was was destroyed by fire.) . Jews were among the earliest European settlers on the Caribbean island of Barbados, located in the Lesser Antilles. Congregation Nidchei Israel was established in 1654 however the building was destroyed in “The Great Barbados Hurricane” of 1831. It was re-consecrated two years later (see Kestenbaum Sale 64, lot 17). See W.S. Samuel, A Review of the Jewish Colonists in Barbados (1936); M. Arbell, The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean (2002) pp. 215-17.
