Description: Pleased to offer from Captain Cook's Hawkesworth's 1777 1st Edition Map of the Marquesas de Mendoca. This is a particularly interesting sketch of the area since it shows Resolution Bay, La Dominica, St. Christinia, St. Pedro, Hood Island, La Magdalena and a detailed inset of Resolution Bay or Port Madre de Dios with map scale, water depths, height of rocky ledges and even a beach with a "watering place". If I were a mariner, I would appreciate this very much! This would have been published in Volume II of the First Edition by Strahan and Cadell in London. Print No. 5. It measures 9" by 11". Hope you enjoy this wonderful piece of history while listening to "Southern Cross" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash; one of my top favorite songs ................... Off the wind on this heading lie the Marquesas; we got eighty feet of the waterline nicely making way .............. Sing on and enjoy this piece of history !!!! THE INTERESTING HISTORY OF THIS PIECE: THE OWNER OF THIS PIECE RELAYED THAT IT WAS OWNED ORIGINALLY BY HER GGGRANDFATHER WHO WAS A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN COLUMBIA THOUGHT THAT SHERMAN WOULD DEAL WITH THEM FAIRLY AND THAT THE TOWN WOULD JUST BE TURNED OVER TO THE NORTHERN TROOPS. HE DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE THAT CHANCE, SO SENT HIS WHOLE FAMILY AND THEIR MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS TO THE FARM OF A GREAT AUNT IN PELION. HE WAS A GREAT BIBLIOPHILE, SO HIS BOOKS AND MAPS WERE ON THE WAGON. THEY LOST EVERYTHING ELSE THEY OWNED WITH THE BURNING OF COLUMBIA.
Price: 125 USD
Location: Riverview, Florida
End Time: 2024-11-10T22:42:53.000Z
Shipping Cost: 8 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Cartographer/Publisher: Strahan and Cadell
State/Territory: Marquesas
Printing Technique: Copper Plate
Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
Format: Atlas Map
Year: 1773
City: Marquesas
Date Range: 1773-77
Country/Region: Marquesas
