Author: Alexander Dalrymple
Publisher: Alexander Dalrymple in London.
Year: 1771
Size: 46.6 x 61.8 cm
Reference: Quirino, p. 95, 96
A Mar of part of Borneo & The Sooloo [sic] Archipelago: Laid down chiefly from Observations made in 1761, 2, 3, and 4.
SOLD
Description
hand-coloured copper engraving map from ‘Charts…’; pl. 54. A detailed chart of northeast Borneo and present-day Sulu Archipelago, the Philippines. The chart is dedicated by Dalrymple “to the Right Honourable George Lord Pigot Late Governor of Fort St. George, on the coast of Coromandel in the East Indies…” and “… engraved at his expense”. It was included in ‘The East India Pilot: a collection of charts, maps and plans for navigation’, London, 1770; Dalrymple’s rare pilot ‘General Introduction to the Charts and Memoirs’, 1772; and subsequently published in d’Apres de Mannevillette’s ‘Le Neptune Oriental’.
Condition
with centerfold as issued, paper toning on margins, with some small tears on margins, paper brittle, perforated library stamps.
