Track of the Tartar Galley…Voyage of Discovery – In Testimony of Esteem and Regard for his great maritime abililies to Sir William James, Bart… Deputy Chairman of the Hon.ble E. India Company, This map is inscribed by his most humble servant, Thomas Forrest.

Description

copper engraving.

EXTREMELY RARE map from “A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan; including an Account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other Islands … performed in the Tartar Galley, belonging to the Honourable East India Company, During the Years 1774, 1775, and 1776 … to which is added, a Vocabulary of the Magindano Tongue.
Printed by G. Scott; and sold by J. Robson; J. Donaldson; G. Robinson [in London]; and J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1779 – Map shows Forrest’s track with the ‘Tartar Galley’between Mindanao, Sulu, Borneo etc.