COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Mount, John
Author:
Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
Author:
Mount and Page
Date:
1750
Short Title:
Pl.17. pt.III. A chart of the Levant or the sea coast of Egypt, Syria, Caramania and the island Cyprus
Publisher:
J. Mount and T. Page
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
40
Obj Width cm:
52
Scale 1:
37,000,000
Note:
Engraved nautical chart of the eastern coast of Mediterranean. Include compass rose, decorative title cartouche, anchorage and Rhumb lines.
Country:
Cyprus
Region:
Mediterranean Sea
Subject:
Nautical charts
Full Title:
A chart of the Levant or the sea coast of Egypt, Syria, Caramania and the Island Cyprus. Newly corrected by John Gaudy. The English pilot Part III ... Mediterranean Sea. M, DCC,L (1750). (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:
13251.170
Page No:
(pl.17.pt.III)
Series No:
170
Engraver or Printer:
Gaudy, John
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:
13251170.jp2
Authors:
Mount, John; Page, Thomas, 1704-1762; Mount and Page
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