cover image: The sea coast of Barbary from Cape de Tenes to Cape de Rosa. James Bennett Sculp. The English pilot Part III ... Mediterranean Sea. M, DCC,L (1750). (to accompany) The English pilot for the Southern navigation .... London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower Hill. M,DCC,LII (1752). The English pilot for the Southern navigation : describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers and ports : together with the soundings, sands, rocks and dangers on the coast of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the Streight's-Mouth, with the coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madeira, Cape de Verde and Western-Islands : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, &c. London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower Hill. M,DCC,LII (1752). Pl. 5. Pt. III. The sea coast of Barbary from Cape de Tenes to Cape de Rosa

The sea coast of Barbary from Cape de Tenes to Cape de Rosa. James Bennett Sculp. The English pilot Part III ... Mediterranean Sea. M, DCC,L (1750). (to accompany) The English pilot for the Southern navigation .... London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower Hill. M,DCC,LII (1752). The English pilot for the Southern navigation : describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers and ports : together with the soundings, sands, rocks and dangers on the coast of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the Streight's-Mouth, with the coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madeira, Cape de Verde and Western-Islands : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, &c. London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower Hill. M,DCC,LII (1752). Pl. 5. Pt. III. The sea coast of Barbary from Cape de Tenes to Cape de Rosa

1750

Engraved double page nautical chart, with 2 inset maps: Algier and Bona. Covers sea and coast of Algeria on the Barbary coast. Includes compass rose, decorative title cartouche and Rhumb lines. Relief shown pictorially. Includes part of Sardinia at upper right. Scale English and French leagues 20=one degree. The "English Pilot" was a sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This edition published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London. Ink inscription on title page reads George Atkinson. This is the 1752 edition of the atlas in two parts (I and III) bound in one volume, London: 1752. and 1750 for Part III Part I covers England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain Holland, Portugal, and the entrance to the Mediterranean. It contains descriptive text and 22 double page and folding maps and charts with explicit sailing directions and numerous woodcut coastal profiles and vignettes in the text. Part III covers the whole Mediterranean Sea, in 14 sections, with title page, descriptive text, and set of seventeen maps. Features a large folding map titled "A Correct Chart of the Mediterranean Sea from the Coast of Portugal to the Levant." and 16 other maps which are double-page folio sheets covering parts of the Mediterranean and are all embellished with compass roses, rhumb lines and costal profiles.
nautical charts

Authors

Mount, John, Page, Thomas, 1704-1762, Mount and Page, Bennett , James, Page, Thomas

Collection
David Rumsey Map Collection
Format
Full Image Download in JP2 Format 40 51
Place Discussed
Algeria Africa, North Mediterranean Sea
Provider
David Rumsey
Published in
Algeria
Reference
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~316395~90084952; 13251.110
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/638b171d2edf408ea501384fd888adb7