A plan of Port Dauphin, on the eastern side of Cape Breton Island, surveyed in 1743 -- A plan of Murgain of Cow Bay, on the eastern side of Cape Breton Island, surveyed in August 1760 -- A draught of the Gut of Canso, between Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, surveyed by the King's Ships in 1761.

• Main Authors: Cook, James, active 1762-1775, Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm) 1761
• Subjects: Nautical Charts; Breton Island; Newfoundland
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Three nautical charts of Port Dauphin and Murgain (or Cow Bay), Cape Breton Island, as well as the Strait of Canso between Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, in 1743, 1760 and 1761, respectively. Charts show cities, topography, bodies of water, drainage, bays, ports, anchorage, shoals and depths, given in fathoms. Relief shown with hachures. Includes rhumb lines, bar scales (scales differ) and compass rose with north oriented toward top of sheet. Black and white copper-engraving. Together, charts are 34 x 51 cm, on plate 37 x 57 cm. The North-American Pilot for Newfoundland, Labradore, the Gulf and River St. Laurence, published by Robert Sayer and John Bennett in London, 1775. Atlas comprised of nautical charts created from surveys by James Cook, Michael Lane, Joseph Gilbert, and other officers in the King's Service. Bound in marbled boards, somewhat abraded. With gilt spine title. Collation: [4] pages, XXII plates. Volume contains 28 charts on 22 plates, some double and other fold-out. Charts show cities, fortifications, topography, vegetation, bodies of water, drainage, bays, ports, anchorage, shoals, rocks, shipwrecks and depths, given in fathoms. Charts include descriptive notes. Copper-plate engravings. See our 14471.000 for the 1784 second edition of this work. "Extremely rare. Published in the year of Cook's return to England from his second voyage, this is the first issue of the complete edition of the survey of Newfoundland and Labrador, which he carried out in the 1760s. These incredibly detailed and accurate charts, along with his skills as a navigator, were largely responsible for Cook being given command of the Endeavour, which took him on his first circumnavigation. Samuel Holland, the first Surveyor General of British North America, [provides] insight into Cook's surveying work in North America: . whenever I could get a moment of time from my duty, I was on board the Pembroke where the great cabin, dedicated to scientific purposes and mostly taken up with a drawing table, furnished no room for ...