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Derrotero General del Mar del Sur: [cartographic material]

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Description
This significant Spanish derrotero contains 149 charts depicting the West Coast of the New World from Mexico to the Straits of Megellan. In addition, this manuscript has no chart titles or index. This derrotero was once thought to be that captured by Bartholomew Sharpe and used as the basis for William Hacke's atlas (see mssHM 265). However a close comparison of the charts with those of the Basil Ringrose atlas (based on the derrotero captured by Captain Henry Morgan) and the Hacke atlas indicate that this derrotero was not the principal source for Hacke's work. It is more likely that this copy is the one captured by Morgan in a 1671 raid on Panama.
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Production date
1669.
Call number
mssHM 918
Provenance
Purchased from Maggs, 1923. Dated "Panama, 1669". With a shelf number from the library of William Blathwayt (d. 1717), secretary to the Lords of Trade and Plantations in the early 1680s on the inside front cover. Purchased by Maggs from Sotheby's, February 7, 1923.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time. There is a facsimile available for viewing.
Associated people
Morgan, Henry, (1635?-1688,)
Sharpe, Bartholomew, (active 1679-1682,)
Blathwayt, William, (1649?-1717,)
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