Description:
London: for Mount & Davidson on Towerhill, 1792, Folio [480 x 320mm], Contemporary Mottled Calf, Spine Gilt on Black, with 22 Double-Page and Folding Charts, 2 small charts, and numerous engravings of charts, navigational instruments, profiles, headlands throughout, small stain on title. A Very Fine Copy.A Splendid example of this atlas with its series of stunning maps and charts and explicit sailing directions and notations. The charts describe the River Thames, Newcastle trade routes, the coastlines and various ports of England, Scotland, Ireland, Flanders and the Netherlands, France, Portugal, Spain, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Coast of Africa including the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands.