Two Spanish manuscript maps of the Florida Keys including the southern tip of Florida, along with another covering the east coast of Florida from Saint Augustine to the beginning of the Keys and the northern Bahama Islands. Together the cover the entire eastern and southern coasts of Florida. The east coast bears depth soundings along its entirety as do the Bahamas, but the extreme south east of Florida is devoid of placenames. New Providence in the Bahamas is named at the lower edge.

The entitled chart centres on the Florida Keys and extends to the area of present day Miami. ‘Viscaino’ is named which most likely relates to present day Biscayne. Other recognisable names include ‘matacumbe’, ‘vacas’ outside present day Marathon, ‘Bahia honda’. The ‘Co. Maxquez’ appears next to what is likely present day Key West. The chain concludes with the Tortugas. Numerous depth soundings occur. A magnificent pair of Spanish manuscripts most likely produced at a time after the Treaty of Paris in 1783 which returned Florida to Spanish rule. Provenance: both came from a medium size collection of manuscript charts from the descendants of Don Vicente Tofino de San Miguel (1732-95), the author of the ‘Atlas Maritimo, and the Cartas Maritimas de la Costa de Espana’.