COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Mount, John
Author:
Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
Author:
Mount and Page
Date:
1752
Short Title:
Pl. 16. Pt. I. A chart of the sea coasts Biscay and Gallicia
Publisher:
J. Mount and T. Page
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Chart Map
Obj Height cm:
44
Obj Width cm:
5
Scale 1:
950,400
Note:
Engraved double page navigation chart. Depths shown by soundings. Showing the course of the principal tracts from place to place. Relief shown pictorially. Includes compass rose and decorative title cartouche.
Country:
France
Country:
Spain
Subject:
Nautical charts
Subject:
Navigation
Full Title:
A chart of the sea coasts Biscay and Gallicia between Cape Machicaca and Cape de Pinas and from Cape de Pinas to Cape de Finisterre. Sold by W. & J. Mount and T. Page, London. (to accompany) The English pilot for the Southern navigation .... London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower Hill. M,DCC,LII (1752).
List No:
13251.074
Page No:
(pl.16)
Series No:
74
Engraver or Printer:
Mount, William
Publication Author:
Mount, John
Publication Author:
Page, Thomas
Publication Author:
Mount and Page
Pub Date:
1752
Pub Title:
The English pilot for the Southern navigation : describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers and ports : together with the soundings, sands, rocks and dangers on the coast of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the Streight's-Mouth, with the coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madeira, Cape de Verde and Western-Islands : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, &c. London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower Hill. M,DCC,LII (1752).
Pub Note:
The "English Pilot" was a sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This edition published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London. Ink inscription on title page reads George Atkinson. This is the 1752 edition of the atlas in two parts (I and III) bound in one volume, London: 1752. and 1750 for Part III Part I covers England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain Holland, Portugal, and the entrance to the Mediterranean. It contains descriptive text and 22 double page and folding maps and charts with explicit sailing directions and numerous woodcut coastal profiles and vignettes in the text. Part III covers the whole Mediterranean Sea, in 14 sections, with title page, descriptive text, and set of seventeen maps. Features a large folding map titled "A Correct Chart of the Mediterranean Sea from the Coast of Portugal to the Levant." and 16 other maps which are double-page folio sheets covering parts of the Mediterranean and are all embellished with compass roses, rhumb lines and costal profiles.
Pub List No:
13251.000
Pub Type:
Chart Atlas
Pub Maps:
41
Pub Height cm:
47
Pub Width cm:
32
Image No:
13251074.jp2
Authors:
Mount, John; Page, Thomas, 1704-1762; Mount and Page
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Pl. 16. Pt. I. A chart of the sea coasts Biscay and Gallicia
