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A new chart of the Atlantic or Western Ocean

Title: A new chart of the Atlantic or Western Ocean / improved by W. Heather ; engraved by J. Stephenson.
Author: Heather, William, 1764-1812.
Publication: London : Published ... by W. Heather at the Navigation Warehouse, No. 157 Leadenhall Street, Augst. 30th 1797.

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Description

1 map : hand col.; 82 x 114 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 427a.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subjects

Note

Depths shown by soundings.
Covers North Atlantic Ocean.
Shows tracks of various voyages in the 1790s and arrows for prevailing currents.
In lower left margin: [?] by J. Norie, teacher of navigation, Leadenhall Street.
"Published as the Act directs."
Includes 8 coastal views.

Indexed In (note)

Call Number

Map Div. 97-6473

OCLC

50178316

Author

Heather, William, 1764-1812.

Title

A new chart of the Atlantic or Western Ocean / improved by W. Heather ; engraved by J. Stephenson.

Imprint

London : Published ... by W. Heather at the Navigation Warehouse, No. 157 Leadenhall Street, Augst. 30th 1797.

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:9,350,000. At equator] (W 90⁰--E 15⁰/N 60⁰--N 0⁰).

Indexed In:

Variant of Phillips. Maps of America, p. 128

Local Note

NYPL copy includes pencilled tracks of voyages between Gulf of Guinea and offshore Ireland.

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NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Stephenson, J., engraver.

Norie, J. W. (John William), 1772-1843.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 97-6473 [LHS 427a; oversize]