A Draught of Virginia from the Capes to York River and to Kuiquotan or Hamton in James River.

The first printed map to show Williamsburg. 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 Engl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tiddeman, Mark, Mount and Davidson
Format: Map
Language:unknown
Published: Mount and Davidson 1794
Subjects:
Nautical Charts
Oceans
Seas
Anchorage
Davidson
James River
Thornton
York River
Newfoundland
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Summary:The first printed map to show Williamsburg. 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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