Antique Map of the Bay of Cordes and Surroundings by Hawkesworth, 1774

Name: Antique Map of the Bay of Cordes and Surroundings by Hawkesworth, 1774
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BGJC-215
Price: 125 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1774
Kind: Maps
Size: 24.5 × 42 cm (9.6 × 16.5 in)
Condition: Good
Period: Colonial America
Places: Chile
Reference: BGJC-215

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

Four harbor charts from the Strait of Magellan region, titled "Baye et Havre de Cordes", an original copper engraving from the German edition of Hawkesworth's account of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook, published by Haude & Spener of Berlin in 1774. The charts illustrate John Byron's voyage in the Dolphin and show Cordes Bay, Port Famine, Woods Bay, Port Gallant and Fortescue Bay.

The sheet is a plate of small coastal plans drawn with soundings, anchorages and shorelines, giving the shapes of the bays and the positions where ships could anchor. The lettering is in French or German, with a scale of leagues for each chart.

Byron's circumnavigation of 1764 to 1766 passed through the Strait of Magellan, and plans of this kind were made so that later ships could find the same safe harbors.

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