Plano del Puerto de Sn Juan de Terranova.

• Main Author: Ferrer y Cafranga, Joaquín María de, 1777-1861
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1818
• Subjects: Nautical Charts; Barres; Canada; Ferrer; Laurie; Plano; Newfoundland; Terranova
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Nautical chart of the port of St. John's, Newfoundland. Shows cities, forts, topography, lakes, lagoons, drainage, inlets, shorelines, islands, shoals, anchorages and soundings, given in fathoms. Relief illustrated with hachures. Includes explanatory note, bar scale and compass rose, with north oriented toward top of sheet. Black and white engraving. Chart is 17 x 24 cm, on sheet 30 x 42 cm. Alternate map title at top margin: Isla de Terra Nova. Portulano de los Estados Unidos, by Joaquín María de Ferrer y Cafranga (1777-1861), Madrid, 1818. Chart atlas featuring many of the earliest printed Spanish charts to focus on major ports in the United States and British North America [Canada], and a key element of an “Enlightenment” project to modernize Spain's naval and cartographic capabilities. Bound in contemporary pink paper wrappers, with engraved title label on front cover. Folio binding has been resewn. Collation: 2° : [1] leaf, [11] leaves of plates, [1] leaf (first and last leaves blank). Comprised of 11 engraved nautical charts of major harbors in the United States and Canada, based on the best British and American sources from the time. Charts show city plans, forts, topography, vegetation, lakes, lagoons, drainage, inlets, shorelines, islands, shoals, anchorages and soundings, given in fathoms. Relief illustrated with hachures. Charts include explanatory notes, coordinate points, bar scales, compass roses and arrows indicating the flow of water. A prequel, Portulano de la America Setentrional, which detailed numerous harbors in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, was published in Madrid by the Dirección de Hidrografía in 1809. Astronomer and geographer Ferrer y Cafranga was a leading figure of the Spanish Enlightenment, whose work served the Armada Real (Spanish Navy). In devising this atlas, Ferrer y Cafranga’s sources included charts from J.F.W. Des Barres' Atlantic Neptune (London, 1775-81), Robert Laurie & James Whittle's The North American Pilot (London, 1800) and Edmund M. Blunt's American ...