COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
04427
File Name:
04427-003
Call number:
D712 C772
Map title:
The Town and Port of Guayaquil, and Island Puna.
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
printed by H. M. for B. Lintot and R. Gosling in Fleet-Street, A. Bettesworth on London-Bridge, and W. Innys in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Publication date:
1712
Map size height:
19 cm.
Map size width:
11 cm.
Item description:
woodcut map, vol. 2, p. 146
Geographical description:
Plan of the town and harbor of Guayaquil in present-day Ecuador in South America. Includes indication of shallows and soundings. Items are lettered for identification in key below.
Source author:
Cooke, Edward, Captain
Source title:
A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world, perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711. Containing a journal of all memorable transactions ... With a new map and description of the mighty River of the Amazons. Wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk
Source place:
London: printed by H. M. for B. Lintot and R. Gosling in Fleet-Street, A. Bettesworth on London-Bridge, and W. Innys in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1712
Geographic Area:
South America
Historical notes:
William Dampier's third circumnavigation of the world included Edward Cooke and Woodes Rogers who wrote about their voyage. This voyage included the rescue of Alexander Selkirk who had been left on Juan Fernandez Island on Dampier's previous circumnavigation in 1704. William Funnell, historian of the expedition, also wrote a book describing the voyage.
Normalized date:
1712
LC bibliographic number:
b31638259
The Town and Port of Guayaquil, and Island Puna.
