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Luffman, John, 1756-1846
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Hand colored map. Prime meridian is London. Shows fortifications.
Author
[Tombleson, William, Reynolds, James]
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New edition folded panoramic pictorial map of the Thames River 128x25, chromolithographed, steel engraved. Extending from its source in Gloucestershire to the sea. Shows in detail the towns, countryside, landmarks, railways, bridges, and roads. Includes distances and list of important landmarks. Bound in black embossed hard covers with title embossed on the front cover in gilt. Date estimated.
Author
[Tombleson, William, Reynolds, James]
Note
New edition folded panoramic pictorial map of the Thames River 128x25, chromolithographed, steel engraved. Extending from its source in Gloucestershire to the sea. Shows in detail the towns, countryside, landmarks, railways, bridges, and roads. Includes distances and list of important landmarks. Bound in black embossed hard covers with title embossed on the front cover in gilt. Date estimated.
Author
[Tombleson, William, Reynolds, James]
Note
New edition folded panoramic pictorial map of the Thames River 128x25, chromolithographed, steel engraved. Extending from its source in Gloucestershire to the sea. Shows in detail the towns, countryside, landmarks, railways, bridges, and roads. Includes distances and list of important landmarks. Bound in black embossed hard covers with title embossed on the front cover in gilt. Date estimated.
Author
Imray, James
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Navigation chart of the Thames River with 2 insets and notes. Showing all the harbors, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and the course of the principal tracts and their distances from place to place in English miles. Includes notes, describing the setting and flowing of the tides; with directions for the knowing of any place, and how to harbor a ship. Depths shown by soundings. "Ptice 5s - with Strait of Dover & book of directions, 8 S."
Author
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
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North to the right.
Author
De Hooge, Romain, 1645-1708
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Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712
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North to the right.
Author
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
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From J.F. Letenneur: "Exceptional onboard document of this rare and fabulous maritime atlas, a masterpiece by the greatest French hydrographer of the 18th century, with maps of all the coastlines known at the time. Bound with the coat of arms of the King of France, the atlas was taken by the English aboard the frigate la Nymphe, off the coasts of Ushant August 10, 1780, during one of the naval battles of the American War of Independence which took place on European waters. In the context of the war at the end of the 18th century, and of the rivalry between the French and British Navy, maritime atlases, were strategic tools, and this “Hydrographie Françoise” more so than any other, because its purpose was to provide the best maritime charts for the French ships that were fighting on the American side against the British. (The handwritten captions throughout most of the atlas are prices for individual maps and all include the same mention: “for sailors”). These atlases were not the kind to be kept in a library, but precious tools, based on the observations of the travelers and continuously improved upon, as reflect in the present copy. It was bound with the engraved title page of the edition of 1737-1765, but the index includes maps printed after 1765 (until 1772), and the copy was augmented by six maps that do not appear in the index (until 1776), as well as 14 pages of text from the Versailles edition of 1773. The later maps are signed by Verdun de la Crenne and were done during the campaigns of the Flore (1771-1772) and of the Isis led by Fleurieu in 1768-1769. The captions explain that the maps were created using the latest technology of the day that could measure longitude (maritime clocks)." (Continued in the Pub Note field).
Author
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
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From J.F. Letenneur: "Exceptional onboard document of this rare and fabulous maritime atlas, a masterpiece by the greatest French hydrographer of the 18th century, with maps of all the coastlines known at the time. Bound with the coat of arms of the King of France, the atlas was taken by the English aboard the frigate la Nymphe, off the coasts of Ushant August 10, 1780, during one of the naval battles of the American War of Independence which took place on European waters. In the context of the war at the end of the 18th century, and of the rivalry between the French and British Navy, maritime atlases, were strategic tools, and this “Hydrographie Françoise” more so than any other, because its purpose was to provide the best maritime charts for the French ships that were fighting on the American side against the British. (The handwritten captions throughout most of the atlas are prices for individual maps and all include the same mention: “for sailors”). These atlases were not the kind to be kept in a library, but precious tools, based on the observations of the travelers and continuously improved upon, as reflect in the present copy. It was bound with the engraved title page of the edition of 1737-1765, but the index includes maps printed after 1765 (until 1772), and the copy was augmented by six maps that do not appear in the index (until 1776), as well as 14 pages of text from the Versailles edition of 1773. The later maps are signed by Verdun de la Crenne and were done during the campaigns of the Flore (1771-1772) and of the Isis led by Fleurieu in 1768-1769. The captions explain that the maps were created using the latest technology of the day that could measure longitude (maritime clocks)." (Continued in the Pub Note field).
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