(Composite Map to) A new chart of the River St. Laurence, from the Island of Anticosti to the Falls of Richelieu : With all the islands, rocks, shoals, and soundings. Also particular directions for navigating the River with safety. Taken by Order of Charles Saunders, Esqr. Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships in the Expedition against Quebec in 1759. Engraved by Thomas Jeffreys Geographer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Published by Command of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London. Printed for Robt. Sayer & Jno. Bennett, Map & Sea-Chart Sellers, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 16 Feby. 1775.

• Main Authors: Cook, James, active 1762-1775, Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm) 1759
• Subjects: Nautical Charts; Newfoundland
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Composite nautical chart of the Saint Lawrence River, in 1759. Shows cities, topography, bodies of water, drainage, ports, anchorage, shoals, rocks and depths, given in fathoms, as well as arrows indicating the direction of water currents. Relief shown pictorially and with hachures. Includes a legend, rhumb lines, a bar scale and a compass rose with north oriented toward top of sheet. Descriptive notes throughout. With seven inset charts: Gaspee Bay -- Mingan Island -- Mingan Harbour -- Havre St. Nicholas by Desjardins, Pilot of Quebec -- Bay of the Seven Islands -- Pointe aux Allouettes of Larks Point by Desjardins, Pilot of Quebec -- Bason. Also, with nineteen profile views: Thus appears the Land between Island Bonaventura and Cape Roziers . Black and white copper-engraving. Composite chart is 85 x 234 cm, on three fold-out plates, together 92 x 255 cm. Chart appears on three sheets. 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 ...