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Buccaneer's atlas : approximately 1684

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Description: The atlas also known as "The Great South Sea of America," as well as the "South Sea waggoner" contains a description of the sea coasts in the South Sea of America from the port of Acapulco to the Le Maire Straits. The atlas depicts ports, harbors, anchoring islands, sands, rock and other navigational dangers. The 132 charts are of a pictorial nature; the coast-line is laid down as in a plane map, but back from the water's edge the country is rendered as seen from the sea. The mountains and hills are given in their natural colors; towns, churches, bridges, and even isolated houses, with all other landmarks of use to navigators, have been inserted by the mapmaker, and voluminous directions are given for the entering of harbors, the avoidances of shoals and rocks, distances, together with notices of where ships were wrecked, where Sawkins (one of Sharpe's colleagues) was killed, and other historical landmarks. Charts 52 and 53 are on the same sheet. The large chart of the west coasts of Central and South America which was originally bound at the beginning of the volume was removed in December 1948 and placed in a separate portfolio.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1684
Call number: mssHM 265
Creator: Hacke, William(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from C. L. F. Robinson sale, Anderson Galleries, Lot 136, April 30, 1917. Purchased from Hacke by William Hill of Lincolns Inn, approximately 1693? and sold by him to the South Sea Company in 1711 when "S.S.C." was stamped on the cover. Listed in Quaritch General catalogue, 1887, vol. V, nr. 28, 23, lot 72 (also lot 93. Also described in Description of a mappemonde by Juan Vespucci and of a buccaneer's atals by William Hack, in the possession of Bernard Quaritch, London, 1914 where it is listed for 650 pounds sterling.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Dimensions: 45 cm
Associated people: Robinson, Charles L. F.; Hill, William
Associated organization: South Sea Company,
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