COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-6104
File Name:
C-6104-000
Call number:
Cabinet Ja769 DaA
Map title:
A chart of the ocean between South America and Africa with the tracks of Dr. Edmund Halley in 1700 and Monsr. Lozier Bouvet in 1738
Place of Publication:
London
Publication date:
1769
Map size height:
46 cm.
Map size width:
61 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map
Geographical description:
Chart of the ocean showing South America and Africa. Includes the routes of Edmund Halley and Jean-Baptiste Lozier Bouvet. "T. Jeffreys, sculp., 1768." "Publish'd according to Act of Partliament April, 1769."
Cartobibliographic notes:
Published with Memoir of a chart of the Southern Ocean, 8 p., signed "Alexander Dalrymple, London, May 1769." Another state, with additions, in Dalrymple's Collection of voyages, London, 1775.
References:
Phillips, Atlases 543, v. 1, no. 5 and v. 3, no. 1
Geographic Area:
World
Historical notes:
Dalrymple, the first hydrographer of the British admiralty, was an advocate for the search for the Northwest Passage (thereby influencing Vancouver's survey), as well as the search for the Terra Australis Incognita (thereby leading to James Cook's expedition in which Cook discovered the east coast of Australia).
Normalized date:
1769
LC bibliographic number:
b54106746
Creator:
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808
Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771
A chart of the ocean between South America and Africa with the tracks of Dr. Edmund Halley...
