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[Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the South of the Line, with the Islands dispers'd throu' the same.]
[Engraved by Thomas Jefferys after Braddock Mead.]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament and Printed for Robert Sayer in Fleet Street and Thomas Jefferys in the Strand. [n.d., 1768.]
One sheet only (of six). Engraved map with border, scarce but damaged. Sheet 440 x 545mm (17¼ x 21½"). Trimmed into plate, losing title above top border, damage in plate. Laid onto old canvas, in turn glued to board. Tears.
The bottom left sheet of Braddock Mead's important six-sheet map, 'A Chart of North and South America including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia.' It shows the pre-Cook outline of New Zealand, Espiritu Santo (then posited to be the east coast of Australia), the Solomon Islands and Marquesas, with the routes of the major explorers marked. Despite being designed to be joined, each sheet had a printed border and an individual title, missing in this example, allowing the sheets to be sold separately. The map was originally published by Jefferys alone in 1753 but, after backruptcy in 1766 forced him to take on partners, this second edition was published with Sayer, apparently unrevised. A third state, published by Sayer and Bennett in 1775, has Cook's mapping of New Zealand.
[Ref: 44645] £680.00
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament and Printed for Robert Sayer in Fleet Street and Thomas Jefferys in the Strand. [n.d., 1768.]
One sheet only (of six). Engraved map with border, scarce but damaged. Sheet 440 x 545mm (17¼ x 21½"). Trimmed into plate, losing title above top border, damage in plate. Laid onto old canvas, in turn glued to board. Tears.
The bottom left sheet of Braddock Mead's important six-sheet map, 'A Chart of North and South America including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia.' It shows the pre-Cook outline of New Zealand, Espiritu Santo (then posited to be the east coast of Australia), the Solomon Islands and Marquesas, with the routes of the major explorers marked. Despite being designed to be joined, each sheet had a printed border and an individual title, missing in this example, allowing the sheets to be sold separately. The map was originally published by Jefferys alone in 1753 but, after backruptcy in 1766 forced him to take on partners, this second edition was published with Sayer, apparently unrevised. A third state, published by Sayer and Bennett in 1775, has Cook's mapping of New Zealand.
[Ref: 44645] £680.00