COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Faden, William, 1749-1836
Author:
Diquemare, Abbé
Author:
Delarochette, L. (Louis), 1731-1802
Date:
1794
Short Title:
A chart of the British Channel and the Bay of Biscay with a part of the North Sea, and the entrance of St. George's Channel.
Publisher:
William Faden
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
50
Obj Width cm:
87
Scale 1:
2,200,000
Note:
Nautical chart of the British [English] Channel, Bay of Biscay, North Sea and Saint George's Channel, as of 1794. Shows political boundaries, cities, roads, canals, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, islands, sand banks, depths and anchorage. Relief shown with hachures. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as rhumb lines and a compass rose with north oriented toward top of sheet. Indexed to indicate land characteristics, such as, "Soft, clean ground, shells and awl points." Descriptive text throughout, including notes on voyages. Hand-colored engraving. Map is 50 x 87 cm, on fold-out sheet 55 x 94 cm. With stamp: Liverpool Library.
Region:
English Channel
Region:
Biscay, Bay of (France and Spain)
Region:
North Sea
Region:
Saint George's Channel (Ireland and Wales)
Subject:
Nautical Charts
Subject:
Exploration
Subject:
Historical
Full Title:
A chart of the British Channel and the Bay of Biscay with a part of the North Sea, and the entrance of St. George's Channel. By Monsr. L. Abbé Diquemare, with several emendations, and many useful additions &c. By L. S. de la Rochette. 3d. Edition MDCCXCIV. London. Engraved & published as the Act directs by W. Faden, Sucer. to the late T. Jeffreys, Geogr. to the King. Charing Cross, Sept. 17th. 1794.
List No:
14383.015
Page No:
8
Series No:
15
Engraver or Printer:
Faden, William, 1749-1836
Publication Author:
Faden, William, 1749-1836
Pub Date:
1794
Pub Title:
General chart, Cook.
Pub Note:
Published in London, 1794. Composite world atlas by William Faden (1749-1836). Bound in 19th century half red calf over purple pebble-grain cloth, with gilt spine title. Pink end papers. Bookplate: Liverpool Library, Lyceum, Bold Street. Stamp for the “Liverpool Library” on many of the maps within. Elephant folio. Collation: 2° : [1], 48 leaves of plates. With a contemporary manuscript index listing forty-eight subjects in order of appearance, including the wall-maps of the Mediterranean, Asia, India, Africa and the Americas, each joined in two sections and listed as two subjects. Geographic coverage spans the globe, including maps of the Western, Eastern, Northern and Southern Hemispheres, as well as Europe, the United States and the West Indies. Maps show political boundaries, cities, roads, canals, topography, deserts, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, islands, water depths and anchorage. Maps feature routes of European exploration, such as the voyages of Captain Cook. Maps include decorative cartouches and descriptive text, including notes on voyages. Engravings with original hand-coloring. See our 2104.000 for a later 1802 edition and our 15054.000 for the 1804 Cedid Atlas (the first Ottoman world atlas) derived from this atlas and the 1802 edition. William Faden was a partner in the Jeffreys’ cartographic firm. “With the onset of peace and his reputation made, Faden had the necessary capital and contacts to expand the range of maps he offered. The War of the French Directory was a further opportunity for Faden. This atlas was evidently prepared around 1794, the latest date found on any of the maps, with the European section buttressed by a range of rare Faden maps issued to illustrate the theaters of war, including the plan of the environs of Toulon, his re-issues of the index map to Dury’s wall-map of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the sheet with insets of Corsica and Sardinia from Dury’s wall-map of the Genoese states, as well as general maps of France, the Low Countries and Delarochette’s map of the English Channel from 1794. The additional maps of England and Spain bear the imprint of Sayer; Asia, Africa Egypt, America and the West Indies are from the stock of Laurie and Whittle, all used in editions of the Sayer/Laurie and Whittle General atlas. Among other highlights in this atlas are Delarochette’s map of Cape Providence (1782), Henry Robert’s maps of the world and the northwest coast of America based upon the discoveries of Cook’s voyages (1784) and Faden’s map of the United States, the second of two states dated 1793, with numerous additions within the map, marking the short-lived state of Franklinia.” (Notes taken from dealer.)
Pub List No:
14383.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
49
Pub Height cm:
56
Pub Width cm:
43
Image No:
14383015.jp2
Authors:
Faden, William, 1749-1836; Diquemare, Abbé; Delarochette, L. (Louis), 1731-1802
