COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
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Author:
Halley, Edmund
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Halley, Edmund
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Date:
1794
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1794
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Short Title:
New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans.
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New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans.
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Publisher:
Mount and Davidson
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Mount and Davidson
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Publisher Location:
London
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London
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Type:
Chart Map
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Chart Map
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Type:
Frontispiece
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Obj Height cm:
60
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60
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Obj Width cm:
70
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Note:
Foldout. This is a corrected edition of Edmund Halley's landmark 1701 chart with the same title. Peter Barbour hailed that chart as the "most significant cartographic achievement of Williamite England" (The Age of William III & Mary II, plate 106.) It was one of the earliest thematic maps, and the first to show lines of equal magnetic variation which was an important advance for navigation. A version of Halley's chart was added to the Fourth Book in 1721, but was discontinued in favor of this revised version in 1749. As noted in the flanking text, there is a "perpetual though slow Change in the Variation almost everywhere, which as made it necessary to construct [the chart] anew from accurate Observations, made by the most ingenious Navigators."
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Foldout. This is a corrected edition of Edmund Halley's landmark 1701 chart with the same title. Peter Barbour hailed that chart as the "most significant cartographic achievement of Williamite England" (The Age of William III & Mary II, plate 106.) It was one of the earliest thematic maps, and the first to show lines of equal magnetic variation which was an important advance for navigation. A version of Halley's chart was added to the Fourth Book in 1721, but was discontinued in favor of this revised version in 1749. As noted in the flanking text, there is a "perpetual though slow Change in the Variation almost everywhere, which as made it necessary to construct [the chart] anew from accurate Observations, made by the most ingenious Navigators."
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Reference:
Phillips, Atlases, 1171 (1784 edition); Verner, A Carto-bibliographical Study of The English Pilot The Fourth Book (Charlottsville, 1960) 37; Cf. Verner, [facsimile] The English Pilot The Fourth Book (London: 1689);
reference
Phillips, Atlases, 1171 (1784 edition); Verner, A Carto-bibliographical Study of The English Pilot The Fourth Book (Charlottsville, 1960) 37; Cf. Verner, [facsimile] The English Pilot The Fourth Book (London: 1689);
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World Area:
Atlantic
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Atlantic
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Subject:
Nautical Charts
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Nautical Charts
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Subject:
Oceans; Seas
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Oceans; Seas
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Subject:
Data Visualization
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Data Visualization
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Full Title:
The New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans.
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The New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans.
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List No:
12434.002
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12434.002
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Series No:
2
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2
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Publication Author:
Mount and Davidson
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Mount and Davidson
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Pub Date:
1794
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1794
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Pub Title:
The English Pilot. Describing the West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating the coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein ... also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, east and west New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. shewing the courses and distances from one place to another; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. with many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. London: Mount and Davidson, M,DCC,XCIV.
pub_title
The English Pilot. Describing the West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating the coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein ... also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, east and west New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. shewing the courses and distances from one place to another; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. with many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. London: Mount and Davidson, M,DCC,XCIV.
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Pub Reference:
Phillips, Atlases, 1171 (1784 edition); Verner, A Carto-bibliographical Study of The English Pilot The Fourth Book (Charlottsville, 1960) 37; Cf. Verner, [facsimile] The English Pilot The Fourth Book (London: 1689);
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Phillips, Atlases, 1171 (1784 edition); Verner, A Carto-bibliographical Study of The English Pilot The Fourth Book (Charlottsville, 1960) 37; Cf. Verner, [facsimile] The English Pilot The Fourth Book (London: 1689);
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Pub Note:
Rare final edition of the Fourth Book of the English Pilot, which was published in five separate books, and was the first major sea-atlas published in England. Furthermore, the Fourth Book was the first wholly English sea-atlas of American waters. The English Pilot, taken as a whole, had a long and complex publishing history that illustrates the development of the chart trade in England during its formative period. Introduced in 1689, by John Thornton and William Fisher, the Fourth Book was the most successful of the five, and had the longest continuous run of editions.
pub_note
Rare final edition of the Fourth Book of the English Pilot, which was published in five separate books, and was the first major sea-atlas published in England. Furthermore, the Fourth Book was the first wholly English sea-atlas of American waters. The English Pilot, taken as a whole, had a long and complex publishing history that illustrates the development of the chart trade in England during its formative period. Introduced in 1689, by John Thornton and William Fisher, the Fourth Book was the most successful of the five, and had the longest continuous run of editions.
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Pub List No:
12434.000
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12434.000
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Pub Type:
Chart Atlas
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Chart Atlas
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Pub Maps:
26
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26
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Pub Height cm:
49
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49
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Pub Width cm:
32
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12434002.jp2
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Authors:
Halley, Edmund
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