Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West Jersey.
Foldout. A classic chart of the Chesapeake Region, originally published in 1689. It is a close copy of Augustine Herrman's map. The delineation of Delaware Bay and New Jersey includes additional data, probably from the Holme map of Pennsylvania. Rare final edition of the Fourth Book of the Engl...
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ftdavidrumseyc:oai:N/A:RUMSEY~8~1~297717~90069330 2024-09-15T18:20:17+00:00 Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West Jersey. The English Pilot. Describing the West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating the coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein . also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, east and west New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. shewing the courses and distances from one place to another; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. with many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. London: Mount and Davidson, M,DCC,XCIV. Thornton, John Mount and Davidson Chesapeake Bay Region 1794 Full Image Download in JP2 Format 51 80 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~297717~90069330 https://media.davidrumsey.com/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size4/RUMSEY~8~1/171/12434030.jpg unknown Mount and Davidson London 12434.000 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~297717~90069330 https://media.davidrumsey.com/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size4/RUMSEY~8~1/171/12434030.jpg 12434.030 Nautical Charts Oceans Seas Chart Atlas Chart Map 1794 ftdavidrumseyc 2024-08-09T09:16:23Z Foldout. A classic chart of the Chesapeake Region, originally published in 1689. It is a close copy of Augustine Herrman's map. The delineation of Delaware Bay and New Jersey includes additional data, probably from the Holme map of Pennsylvania. Rare final edition of the Fourth Book of the English Pilot, which was published in five separate books, and was the first major sea-atlas published in England. Furthermore, the Fourth Book was the first wholly English sea-atlas of American waters. The English Pilot, taken as a whole, had a long and complex publishing history that illustrates the development of the chart trade in England during its formative period. Introduced in 1689, by John Thornton and William Fisher, the Fourth Book was the most successful of the five, and had the longest continuous run of editions. Phillips, Atlases, 1171 (1784 edition); Verner, A Carto-bibliographical Study of The English Pilot The Fourth Book (Charlottsville, 1960) 37; Cf. Verner, [facsimile] The English Pilot The Fourth Book (London: 1689); Map Newfoundland David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (Cartography Associates) |
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Foldout. A classic chart of the Chesapeake Region, originally published in 1689. It is a close copy of Augustine Herrman's map. The delineation of Delaware Bay and New Jersey includes additional data, probably from the Holme map of Pennsylvania. Rare final edition of the Fourth Book of the English Pilot, which was published in five separate books, and was the first major sea-atlas published in England. Furthermore, the Fourth Book was the first wholly English sea-atlas of American waters. The English Pilot, taken as a whole, had a long and complex publishing history that illustrates the development of the chart trade in England during its formative period. Introduced in 1689, by John Thornton and William Fisher, the Fourth Book was the most successful of the five, and had the longest continuous run of editions. Phillips, Atlases, 1171 (1784 edition); Verner, A Carto-bibliographical Study of The English Pilot The Fourth Book (Charlottsville, 1960) 37; Cf. Verner, [facsimile] The English Pilot The Fourth Book (London: 1689); |
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Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West Jersey. |
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Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West Jersey. |
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Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West Jersey. |
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Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West Jersey. |
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Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West Jersey. |
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virginia, maryland, pennsilvania, east & west jersey. |
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Mount and Davidson |
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1794 |
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