Antique Map of Cape Providence & St. David’s Cove – Strait of Magellan, 1774

Name: Antique Map of Cape Providence & St. David’s Cove – Strait of Magellan, 1774
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12707-112
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1774
Kind: Maps
Size: 25.8 × 41.5 cm (10.2 × 16.3 in)
Condition: Fair. Good original condition with light age-related toning and minor handling wear consistent with eighteenth-century engraved maps. Central fold as issued. No later coloring or restoration observed.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Chile
Reference: BG-12707-112

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Eight small harbor charts of the Strait of Magellan on a single engraved sheet, from the French edition of John Hawkesworth's An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, published circa 1774. The sheet is lettered "Tom. I. Pl. 4" at the upper right.

The central chart is "Cap Providence", titled with the note "avec la Baye et les mouillages qu'on trouve au N.N.E. de ce Cap". Around it are "Anse St. David", "Baye de l'Isle", "Havre Swalow", "Baye Pussling", "Baye du Cap Upright" and "Baye Dauphin", with a further small chart of another cape at lower left. Each chart is engraved with shoreline, soundings, anchorage signs and crossing compass lines, and a scale of English miles runs below the central chart.

Hawkesworth's work brought together the discoveries of the British voyages of Byron, Wallis and Cook, and these charts were drawn for ships looking for safe anchorage on the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific.

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