COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Accession Number:
01917
File Name:
01917-5
Call number:
F684 E96bl
Map title:
The Bay of Panama and Gulf of Ballona
Place of Publication:
[London]
Publisher:
[William Crooke]
Publication date:
[1685]
Map size height:
14.4 cm. (platemark)
Map size width:
13 cm.
Item description:
engraved map; part 4, p. 40
Geographical description:
Map of the bay of Panama and the gulf of Ballona (also known as the gulf of Vallona or Saint Michael).
Source author:
Ringrose, Basil, d. 1686
Source title:
Bucaniers of America. The second volume. Containing the dangerous voyage and bold attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp ...
Source place:
London : Printed for William Crooke ..., 1685
Geographic Area:
South America
Historical notes:
This map was originally made by William Hack, a London map and chart maker, from a collection of Spanish charts captured by the English privateer, Captain Bartholomew Sharpe, when his ship, Trinity, seized the Spanish ship, Rosario, off the coast of Ecuador in 1681. Among the booty seized was a derrotero, or a volume of manuscript charts of the coast with detailed sailing directions, captured as it was about to be thrown overboard. Hack copied this work for the British crown and called it the South Sea Wagoner. Hack never published his atlas (it was thought to be too important to grant access to the information in it), although several manuscript copies were made and sold by Hack.Here a version was published as part of Sharpe's account of his journey.
Normalized date:
1685
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