Historical map of Dutch colonies in South- and North America as well as Ghana

Title Leupe: "Historische schetskaart van de Nederlandsche koloniën in Amerika en op de kust van Guinea (bis). Met kartons voorstellende: Suriname na 1815, Nieuw-Amsterdam in 1661, New-York in den tegenwoordigen tijd, Nieuw -Nederland in de 17e eeuw, en de Kust van Guinea”.

This map grants a historical overview of the Dutch possession in North

and South America as well as Ghana. It belongs to Hettema’s fourth edition of the De Grote Historische Schoolatlas or The Grand Historical School Atlas from 1905. The main attention is given to the history of current colonies in the Caribbean and Suriname. Previous colonies in Brasil, North-America and Ghana are drawn in the lower left corner. A modern map of New York is also provided. The map is supposed to be coloured as the annotation at the lower centre of the map reminds us.

North is above.

Scale of 1 : 12.500.000.