COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Mount, John
Author:
Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
Date:
1756
Short Title:
The chart of the Leeth of Bergen
Publisher:
W. and J. Mount and T. Page
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Chart Map
Obj Height cm:
42
Obj Width cm:
52
Scale 1:
1,470,000
Note:
Engraved nautical chart. Depth shown by soundings and rhumb lines. Includes compass roses oriented with north to the left. Relief shown pictorially.
Country:
Norway
Subject:
Nautical charts
Full Title:
The chart of the Leeth of Bergen : from Schuytenes to Bergen. (to accompany) The English pilot ... northern navigation ... London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son. M,DCC,LVI. (1756).
List No:
13301.048
Page No:
(17)
Series No:
48
Publication Author:
Mount, John
Publication Author:
Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
Pub Date:
1756
Pub Title:
The English pilot : Describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers : the bays, roads, harbours, rivers and ports in the whole northern navigation : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea : with many other things belonging to the art of navigation … describing the north coast of England and Scotland, with the Islands of Orkney, Shetland, Lewis, Farro, Ireland, &c : the sea-coast of Flanders, Zealand, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Lapland, Russia, the islands of Waigats, and Nova Zembla as far as the Tartarian Sea : also Greenland, Trinity-Island, Cherry-Island, Hope-Island, &c : the sea-coast of Sweden, East-Findland, Lyfland, Prussia, Pomeraina, &c, with all the islands belonging to the said countries in the Baltic-Sea. London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son. M,DCC,LVI. (1756).
Pub Note:
The second part of the English Pilot atlas, for the northern navigation. This edition published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London, 1756. Bound in brown leather covers. The "English Pilot" was a sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This edition consists of 78 pages of descriptive text, extensive sailing directions and coastal profiles, with 31 unnumbered double page and folding detailed navigation charts. Some charts engraved by Francis Lamb and Herman Moll. Showing grid lines, sandbanks, anchorages, bays, harbors, roads, buoys, settlements along the coasts, beacons and place names. Charts are embellished with compass roses, rhumb lines, title cartouche and coats of arms. Covering the Northern Europe, British Isles north to Scandinavia, the Arctic Ocean and Baltic Sea. Depth shown by soundings. Prime meridian is London.
Pub List No:
13301.000
Pub Type:
Chart Atlas
Pub Maps:
31
Pub Height cm:
48
Pub Width cm:
32
Image No:
13301048.jp2
Authors:
Mount, John ; Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
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The chart of the Leeth of Bergen
