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| Hydrographia Canalis Marini inter Angliam et Galliam de Fluentis. The English Channel, Scherer, Copperplate engraving from Atlas Novus 1710. Size 18.5 x 23.5 cm. Condition very good £48.00/$78.00. Click for info |
The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might;
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright -
And this was odd,
because it was
The middle of the night.
Lewis Carroll (The Walrus
and theCarpenter)
The definition of a chart is a marine or hydrographical map, exhibiting part of a sea or other water, with the islands, contiguous coasts, soundings, currents, and other information of any kind.
Naval charts are not only fascinating historical documents, demonstrating the detailed contemporary knowledge of the seas, but they also make great decorations for offices, boardrooms and homes.
Selected maritime charts currently in stock
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A New and Correct Chart of the Seat of War, on the coasts of France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, and the Mediterranean Sea.Thomas Kitchin, Copperplate engraving, hand coloured on on hand made paper, Engraved for the History of the War, Annual Register, 1763. 30 x25 cm
£85.00 / 138.00
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A Plan of Dover Harbour. Copper plate map, Engraved from a drawing made in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, by James Basire. Hasted's History of Kent 1797. 32 x 23 cm
£52.00 / $84.00.
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A Draught of the Road and Harbour of Brest with the adjacent Coast. Copper plate engraving showing the coast from Le Conquet to Le Faou. Also showing houses, windmills and water depthd in the bays. Anonymous, 1757. 44 x 18 cm
£60.00 / $98.00
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Bretagne N. Chart Nicolas de Fer, copper plate engraving, circa 1680. 32 x 22 cm
£95.00 / $154.00
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Languedoc Provence Coast, Coronelli ?, copper plate engraving, circa 1680. 51 x 39 cm
£98.00 / $158.00
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Chart of the Straits of Gibraltar with the coast of Spain from Cadiz to Malaga, illustrating the Operations of the British and Combined Fleets 1782. Copper plate engraving with 4 pages of battle information fom Univesal magazine 1782. 21 x 13 cm
£58.00 / $94.00
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Norway South Coast Sandoen to the Svenoer. Engraved in 1855, Published at the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty 1855, small corrections inclusive to 1960. 65 x 81 cm
£30.00 / $48.00
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Approaches to Kieler Forde, Baltic Sea Germany. Coloured Chart, published under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral G.S.Ritchie, Hydrographer of the Navy, 1969. 65 x 48 cm
£30.00 / $48.00
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Views from the North West Coast of America. Showing 9 profiles of for instance The Isle of Necker, Isle des Espagnols, Isle St.Carlos, Mount St. Hyacinthe, and others. Copper engraving from Voyages of La Perouse 1786. 46.5 x 31 cm
£58.00 / $94.00
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North West Coast of America. Copper engraving, from Voyages of La Perouse 1786. 67 x 49cm
£92.00 / $149.00
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Plan of Bucarelli, From a manuscript by Quadra and Maurelle being the most northern part of their explorations of North West America in 1775 and again 1779. Copper engraving from Voyages of Perouse 1786. 69 x 49 cm
£75.00 / $122.00
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Carte de la partie S.E. de la Terre De Feu comprenant le Detroit de le Maire, et une part de la Terre Des Etats Par le Lieut. J.Cook 1769. Copper plate chart, engraved by Benard, published circa 1795. 35.5 x 30 cm
£48.00 / $78.00
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Routes to India and the Cape on Mercator's Projection. Coloured Map showing Railways, Telegraphs, Steamer Routes and Distances between Ports and Ocean Depths. From the M.P.Atlas showing the Commercial and Political Interests of the British Isles and Empire throughout the World. W.and A.K.Johnston, 1907 58.5 x 44 cm
£64.00 / $104.00
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Antarctic Regions. Discoveries in Graham Land by Sir Hubert Wilkins. The Geographical Journal, March 1929. 19 x 24 cm
£34.00 / $55.00
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Wellington Channel, Melville Island from Admirality Chart. Central Canadian Arctic Archipelago in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. Very detailed chart with information on Explorers, landscapes, animals and more. Steel engraving with original colour, published by Fullerton and Co. 1856. 23.5 x 12 cm
£38.00 / $62.00
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Carte de la Baye D'Hocsieu, et de Entrees de la Riviere de Chang. In the Province of Fokyen. Bellin, taken from a Dutch Manuscript. Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, Prevost 1748. 29x 21cm
£70.00 / $114.00
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Platte Grondt der Baei Choiseuil in een der Eilanden van de Louisiade. Island in the Solomon Group. Copper plate engraving by Abr.Blusse from Reis Rondon der Weereeldt The Dutch edition of L.de Bougainville's Circumnavigatio, 1766-1769. 22 x 35 cm
£98.00 / $158.00
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A Chart of the Windward and Leeward Islands with the Trade-Winds and Courses. Hand Coloured Map with Compass Rose by John Luffman,(1756-1846) Geographer, published in 1813. 28 x 42 cm
£78.00 / $126.00
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Cape Santa Maria, Thus appears the Coast of Nova Guinea...E.Burney, copper engraved , hand coloured, 1813. 23 x 16 cm
£45.00 / $73.00
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Banc de Sable dangereux, Isle de Joseph Freewill, L'Extremite Meridionale de Mindanao, Southern Tip of Mindanao. Copperplate engraving by Benard from the French Edition of Captain Cooks' Voyage, 1774 20 x 20.5 cm
£48.00 / $78.00
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Saypan, and Isles of Ladrones, Copper plate engraving by Schley, hand coloured , dated circa 1760. 35 x 20 cm
£64.00 / $104.00
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View of the South West Coast of the Island of Tinian in the Pacific Ocean. Jacob van der Schley, copper plate engraving, hand coloured, showing sailing ship and coast. Circa 1760. 36 x 21 cm
£64.00 / $104.00
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Carte de l'Archipel de St.Lazare ou Les Isle Marianes. Jaques Nicolas Bellin from the map of P.Alonso Lopez and the information of P.Morales, Spanish Jesuit Missionaries serving on the Islands.Published in Histoire Generale des Voyages, 1752. 16 x 23 cm
£60.00 / $98.00
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Map of Route of Mungo Parks in 1795 and his last Mission in 1805. Copper plate engraving, with detailed observations, and showing the place where he was killed. From the Journal of Munro Park's last Mission to Africa, engraved by Neele, published by John Murray, 1815. 75 x 28 cm
£88.00 / $142.00
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Isola,e Citta di Sofala. Sofala used to be the chief seaport of the Monomotapa Kingdom now Mozambique.The site of the oldest harbour in Southern Africa, it was at some point identified with the Biblical Ophir and the dynasty of the queen of Sheba. it was the first Potuguese Colony in the region. Coronelli, Wood cut chart c1590. 33 x 49 cm
£98.00 / $158.00
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Plan de la Baye et Isle D'Argium, Jaques Nicolas Bellin, Copper plate chart Mauritania, North Senegal, Africa, from Abbe Prevost's Histoire General des Voyages 1747. 22.5 x 15.5 cm
£48.00 / 78.00
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A Chart of the Eastern Coast of Africa. Thomas Kitchin, copper plate engraving drawn from the French Chart by order of the Count de Maurepas, published by Thomas Astley in his Collection of voyages and travels, 1744. 23 x 25 cm
£65.00 / $105.00
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A Chart of the Western Coast of Africa. Thomas Kitchin, Copper plate engraving, showing the Grain, Ivory, Gold and Slave Coast drawn from the French Chart by order of the Count de Maurepas, published by Thomas Astley in his Collection of voyages and travels, 1744. 25 x 20 cm
£65.00 / $105.00
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A Chart of the Western Coast of Africa. Thomas Kitchin, Copper plate engraving, showing the Cape of Good Hope and Table Bay, drawn from the French Chart by order of the Count de Maurepas, published by Thomas Astley in his Collection of voyages and travels, 1744. 26 x 24.5 cm
£60.00 / $98.00
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