top of page

Five charts on the one sheet.

The Aleutian Islands. (newly discovered by Europeans).

Azores.

Canary Islands.

Madeira Islands.

Cape Verde Islands.

Published in 1790 by Alexander Hogg in London.

Fully hand coloured with decorative border typical of the late eighteenth century.

One of the first charts by Europeans depicting the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Strait, first discovered by the Russian fur trader Vitus Bering in 1741. The information taked from the Imperial Institute of St. Petersburg. 

Copperplate engraving.

Plate size. 315 x 200 mm. (12 x 8 inches).

Various CHARTS of ISLANDS &c in the ATLANTIC & PACIFIC OCEANS. [1790].

$195.00Price
    2016 by Flo Costello for Maritime Art & Antiques
    © Copyright protected.
    bottom of page