COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Mount, John
Author:
Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
Date:
1766
Short Title:
A chart of ye Coast of Barbary from Cape Geer to Cape Bajadore ...
Publisher:
J. Mount and T. Page
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
43
Obj Width cm:
53
Scale 1:
1,260,000
Note:
Nautical chart of the Barbary Coast, along North Africa. Shows surrounding land, port cities, coastlines, islands, shoals, anchorage, and soundings. Includes rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as six bar scales and two compass roses, with north oriented toward left of sheet. Descriptive notes throughout. Decorative cartouches. Black and white engraving. Chart is 43 x 53 cm, on double sheet 47 x 59 cm.
Region:
Africa, North
Subject:
Nautical Charts
Full Title:
A chart of ye Coast of Barbary from Cape Geer to Cape Bajadore -- A chart of ye Coast of Barbary from C. Bajadore to the Golfe of St. Anne.
List No:
14347.014
Series No:
14
Publication Author:
Mount, John
Publication Author:
Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
Pub Date:
1766
Pub Title:
The English pilot : Part V. Describing the sea-coast, capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers and ports; with the exact appearances and representations of the most principal marks, lands, &c. together with the soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers on the west-coast of Africa : from the straits of Gibralter to the Cape of Good Hope, Viz. The coasts of Barbary, Gualta, Arguin, Hoden, Falofi, Gambia, Melli, Benni, Malegete, Grain, Ivory, or Tooth, Band, Quaqua and Gold Coast, Bight of Bennin, Biafra, Gabon, Loango, Congo, Angola, Cimbebas and CAffrary : with the adjacent islands of the Canary, Madera, and those off the Cape Verde. Shewing the courses and distances from one place to another : the setting of the tides and currents; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, with many other things useful in the art of navigation. Done according to the best observations and informations, with the late improvements of several able navigators of our own and other nations. The Seventh Edition, with new additions. London : printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, M,DCC,LXVI.
Pub Reference:
Phillips 3230.
Pub Note:
The English pilot : Part V, published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London, 1766. The English pilot was a sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This, fifth, edition focus on the coasts of Africa and the vicinity, from the English Channel to the Strait of Gibraltar and further to the Cape of Good Hope. Bound in brown leather, with gilded spine title. Ink inscription on first (blank) page indicates provenance, listing several names, beginning with Joseph Sowler. Collation: [1], 42 pages, with 19 double leaves of double plates, including several fold-out sheets. Plates comprised of 21 nautical charts (three together on plate following page 16). Charts show surrounding land, port cities, topography, vegetation, coastlines, islands, shoals, anchorage, and soundings. Relief shown pictorially. Charts include rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as bar scales, compass roses and descriptive notes. Extended description appears in chapters I through XVI, illustrated by woodcut profile views of coastal topography. For the other parts of The English Pilot in the collection, see Pub List No 13301.000 (Part II), 13251.000 (Parts I and III, bound together) and 12434.000 (Part IV).
Pub List No:
14347.000
Pub Type:
Chart Atlas
Pub Type:
Regional Atlas
Pub Maps:
21
Pub Height cm:
48
Pub Width cm:
31
Image No:
14347014.jp2
Authors:
Mount, John; Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
