83 research outputs found
Chart of the Pacific Ocean [cartographic material] /
No full textMap of the Pacific Ocean with tracks of navigators Cook, Clarke and Furneaux.; Tooley, 70.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t70
SKETCH of TONGATABOO HARBOUR 1777
No full textThe map orientation is inverted from a normal map reading position with South on top
New and Complete Chart of the World; Displaying the Tracks of Captn. Cook, and other Modern Navigators.
No full text18th centuryCopper engraving handcolored with watercolor.
Outline color.
Watermark shows a decorative pattern and publication date of 1796.
Printed in cartouche in middle of top border:
"A New and Complete Chart of the World; Displaying the Tracks of Captn. Cook, and other Modern Navigators."
Printed beneath South America, a legend explaining the exploration routes of various ships:
"Explanation. Endeavours Track in 1768, 9, 70 & 71. Resolution & Adventures in 1772,3, 4 & 5. Resolution & Discovery in 1776, 7, 8, 9 & 80. Racehorse & Carcass in 1773."
Printed beneath Indian Ocean, note explaining when ships left starting point:
"Note. The Endeavour left Plymouth 26 Aug 1768, arrived in the Downs 12 July 1771. Resolution & Adventure left Plymouth 13 July 1772, arrived at Portsmouth 30 July 1775. Resolution & Discovery left Plymouth 13 July 1775, arrived at Strumnes 22 Augt. 1780."
Printed in lower right corner beneath border:
"Drawn & Engraved by T. Bowen."
Written in pencil in upper right corner on verso:
"Bank's Geography. 1789. 18-10-6."
Displays entire world with Europe, Asia and Africa on the left side of the map and North America and South America on the right side. Shows Arctic Circle and area north of it as "Frozen Ocean." The Bering Sea is shown as the "Bhering Str." Nootka Sound is shown as well. The point at which explorers could no longer head north because of weather conditions is labeled as "Impenetrable Ice." The northwestern portion above California is labeled as "New Albion" and the area between New Albion and the "United States" is labeled as "New Louisiana." Also shown is a large island belonging to current-day Arkhagel'sk north of western Russia labeled as "Nova Zembia." Central Asia is labeled as "Independant Tartary" and northern Africa is labeled as "Negroland" while southern Africa is called "Cafreria." Eastern Africa is labeled as "Abissinia" and the present nations of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, Togo and Liberia are labeled as "Guinea. routes and dates of the exploration done by Captain James Cook are shown throughout the map. routes of various explorers are also shown including Phipps' exploration of current-day Svalbard. Australia's borders are completely shown and it is labeled as "New Holland."
East and west degrees of longitude are marked from Greenwich in the upper and lower corners in the border of the map.
Scale c.a. 1:195,000,000.Thomas Bowen was the son of engraver, mapseller and publisher, Emanuel Bowen (fl. 1720-67). Bowen worked with his father on several maps and became an engraver and mapseller himself. Bowen engraved for a number of cartographers and publishers including Cook, Hogg, Forster and Carver. Among his works are "British American Plantation" (1749), "Royal English Atlas" (1767), "Atlas Anglicanus" (1765), Morant's "Essex" (1768), Taylor and Skinner's "Roads" (1776), "The World showing the Discoveries of Capt. Cook and other circumnavigators," (c. 1777), Middleton's "Geographia" (1777-78), Carver's "New Univ. Traveller" (1779), and Forster's "Hist. of Voyages" (1786). Bowen died in Clerkenwell Workhouse (Tooley, 74; Moreland and Bannister, 166). After Thomas's death in 1790, his map plates passed on to the business of Bowels and Carver (Skelton, 74).
Source(s): Library of Congress Division of Maps and Charts. "A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress." Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1901.
Moreland, Carl and David Bannister. "Antique Maps: A Collector's Handbook." New York: Longman Group, Ltd., 1983.
Skelton, R.A. "Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries; a Revised Edition of Old Decorative Maps and Charts, by A. L. Humphreys." London: Staples Press, 1952.
Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979
Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), hydrographer to the East India Company and the Admiralty, as publisher: a catalogue of books and charts
No full textThis is a study of the publications and publishing practices of
Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808). Dalrymple was cumulatively a private
publisher of nautical charts and plans (from 1767), the ''examiner of
ships' journals'' and chart publisher for the East India Company (from
1779), and Hydrographer to the Admiralty (from 1795).
The core of the study is a catalogue of the known publications of
Alexander Dalrymple, defining and establishing his oeuvre. The
catalogue is in two parts, Catalogue A for the letterpress publications,
numbering 257, and Catalogue B for the engraved charts, plans of ports,
views of land, and other Illustrations, numbering 1116. The entries in
each part of the catalogue are arranged chronologically by date of
publication, with full bibliographical and technical descriptions, and
notes of attribution, dating and inter-relationships.
The introduction gives a short account of Dalrymple's life, focussing on
his publishing activity, and introducing his geographical and political
pamphlet publishing. Four phases of activity in his nautical publication
are identified: the decision to publish charts and memoirs from his own
voyages in the Eastern Archipelago (1769-1772); the private publication
of charts and plans with grants or subscriptions from the East India
Company (1772-1779); the annual series of charts, plans, views and
memoirs issued from 1779 onwards for the East India Company; and the
organisation and output of the Admiralty Hydrographic Office which he
ran in parallel with his East India Company work after 1795. This is
supplemented by a discussion of the continuing use made of Dalrymple's
charts after his death in 1808.
An investigation of Dalrymple's engraving and publishing practices
follows, with a brief survey of his technical leaflets and manuals on
nautical surveying and chronometer use, and an account of Oriental
Repertory, his chief non-nautical publication. The study emphasises the
close personal control Dalrymple exercised over his publications, and
the consequent problems in the Admiralty and East India Company in
developing arrangements to continue publishing charts after his death
The Island of Otaheite : according to the surveys taken by Cap. Cook 1769, corrected by his later astronomical observations
No full textScale approximately 1:220,000 (W 149°50ʹ--W 149°10'/S 17°30'--S 17°55'). 1 map : color 27 x 37 cm. Relief shown by shadings and hachures. Greenwhich meridian. Shows points of interest along the coast
A CHART of the ISLANDS discover'd in the neighbourhood of OTAHEITE in the Course of several Voyages round the World MADE BY the Cap'ns Byron, Wallis, Carteret & Cooke in the Years 1765, 1767, 1769
No full textShows four tracts from the four Capts. mentioned in the title.No scale bar or compass on map
CHART of the NW COAST of AMERICA and the NE COAST of ASIA explored in the Years 1778 & 1779
No full textMap of the northern coastline of the Pacific Ocean with north-west North America and north-east Asia, detailing travel routes of Cook's voyages. This map was published to accompany the official published account of James Cook's 3rd and final voyage during which he was killed in Hawaii. When it came time to publish it, without Cook's influence there was a dispute between Henry Roberts (Cook's primary cartography assistant) and others on the voyage, and some members of the Admiralty. The members of the Admiralty prevailed and the official map was less detailed than Roberts'. As a result, Roberts sold his more detailed version to William Faden who published it as a stand-alone map just a month after the official atlas! A complete discussion of the dispute can be found here: www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/35568Water depth in fathoms accompany portions of the travel routes. Mountain ranges are depicted pictorially, assumptions for coastlines that were not observed were added in.
The representative fraction provided is a representation of the scope of the map, and not suitable for distance measurement due to small scale conic projection
Encyclopaedia heraldica, or, Complete dictionary of heraldry /
No full textEngraved t.-p.s, with vignettes.v.1. Complete dictionary of heraldry. Glover's Ordinary of arms, augm. and improved, with indexes, &c. Mottos of the nobility &c. Appendix, containing baronets of Scotland and Ireland... Supplement to Dictionary of heraldry, and addenda -- v.2. Dictionary of arms of the principal private families in England, Scotland, and Ireland -- v.3. Explanatory plates to the Dictionary of heraldry, orders of knighthood and the arms of subscribersMode of access: Internet.Plates engraved by James Joshua Neele, Josiah Neele, John Walker, James Mutlow, and Oliver; after James Joshua Neele, Josiah Neele, and James Mutlow.BAC : British Art Center copy is bound in 2 vols., in original boards
Maine
No full textShows Maine counties and the boundary lines between Maine and British North America as determined by the 1783 Treaty of Paris and that claimed by the British
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