West Indies – Hispaniola - Haiti - Dominican Republic:Carte Physique Et Politique De L’Ile D’HaïTi / Dresse?E Par Mr. A. Poujol, Ancien Charge? D’Affaires D’HaïTi á Santo Domingo Et Ancien Membre Des Commission Mixte De De?Limitation De 1899 Et 1901 Et Mr. H. Thomasset, Inge?Nieur De L’Ecole Centrale De Paris, Officier De La Le?Gion D’Honneur. Publie?E Sous Le MinistèRe De Mr. T. Laleu, Se?Cretaire D’Etat Aux De?Partments De L’Instrucion Publique Et De La Justice, Port-Au-Prince, 1908. / Nouvelle E?Dition Rectifie?E 1912. Alexandre Poujol (1865 - 1924) & Henri Thomasset (B. 1845). Maps And Prints

Colour lithograph, dissected into 40 sections and mounted upon original linen, with extensive contemporary manuscript additions in neat red marker tracing an itinerary around the island (Good, overall clean, and bright, some closed tears lower centre but with no loss, some wear along some section edges and an abrasion with small surface loss in the sea lower centre not affecting mapped area or text), 110 x 175.5 cm (43.5 x 69 inches). Extremely rare - a monumental, brilliantly colour lithographed work that is by far and away the most accurate and detailed map of Hispaniola to date, and one of the great achievements of cartography of the early 20th century in the Americas, the result of a collaboration between Alexandre Poujol, a leading Haitian jurist and stateman, and Henri Thomasset, a Frenchman who was the preeminent civil engineer and mining and railway entrepreneur in both the Dominican Republic and Haiti; predicated upon an the best and latest sources, it was both a marked technical improvement upon, and a rhetorical counterpoint to, the well-known 1906 map of Hispaniola made by the Dominican General Casimiro Moya, as it fulfils a propagandist purpose in showing Haiti’s extensive territorial claims, at the Dominicans’ expense; an invaluable record of the topography, economic development, infrastructure and diplomatic affairs of Haiti and the Dominican Republic issued on the eve of the American occupation of the island. PLEASE SEE OUR WEB PAGE FOR A LONGER DESCRIPTION