A Chart shewing part of the Coast of N.W. America, With the Tracks of His Majesty's Sloop Discovery and Armed Tender Chatham; Commanded by George Vancouver Esqr. and prepared under his immediate inspection by Lieut. Joseph Baker, in which the Continental Shore has been traced and determined from Latde. of 59¼30' North & Longde. 207¼20' East; to Cape Douglas in Latde. 58¼52' North and Longde. 207¼20' East. Engraved by S.J. Neele, 352 Strand. (with) A Survey of Port Chatham. London Published May 1st 1798, by T.R. Edwards Pall Mall & C. Robinson Paternoster Row.
Maps without color. Note within the cartouche states, "The parts not shaded taken from Russian Authority." Unbroken lines show the ships' path as they went north. Dotted lines show the path of the ships as they sailed south. Map covers the area around Kodiak Island and the Kenai Penin...
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| Summary: | Maps without color. Note within the cartouche states, "The parts not shaded taken from Russian Authority." Unbroken lines show the ships' path as they went north. Dotted lines show the path of the ships as they sailed south. Map covers the area around Kodiak Island and the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. Atlas, without title, as issued. Contains ten charts and six sheets of views (profiles of parts of the coastlines). Compare the English charts to the French issues in the French Neptune of 1820. Vancouver's charts were the most accurate of the area for many years into the 19th century. In addition to the eight Northwest Coast charts, there is a "Chart shewing part of the S.W. Coast of New Holland" (with inset charts of New Zealand) and "A Chart of the Sandwich Islands." Maps are without color and bound into half leather burgundy cloth covered boards with "Atlas To Vancouvers Voyage" stamped in gilt on a red leather label on the spine. Streeter calls the accounts of the voyage, "One of the most important accounts of the exploration of the Pacific Northwest and New Zealand, and valuable source of information about Tahiti and the Hawaiian Islands in the last decade of the eighteenth century." Voyage accounts are bound in three volumes, all in half leather with green cloth boards. "Vancouver's Voyage" and the volume number embossed in gold on spine. P197; Streeter 3497; Sabin 98443; Cowan 1933; Wagner 853-860. |
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