Antique Map of Cape Providence & St. David’s Cove – Strait of Magellan, 1774
€ 440
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1774
Sheet size
25.8 × 41.5 cm (10.2 × 16.3 in)
Condition
Fair
Reference
BG-12707-112
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Good original condition with light age-related toning and minor handling wear consistent with eighteenth-century engraved maps. Central fold as issued. No later coloring or restoration observed.
About this sheet
Eight small harbor charts of the Strait of Magellan on a single engraved sheet, from the French edition of John Hawkesworth's An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, published circa 1774. The sheet is lettered "Tom. I. Pl. 4" at the upper right.
The central chart is "Cap Providence", titled with the note "avec la Baye et les mouillages qu'on trouve au N.N.E. de ce Cap". Around it are "Anse St. David", "Baye de l'Isle", "Havre Swalow", "Baye Pussling", "Baye du Cap Upright" and "Baye Dauphin", with a further small chart of another cape at lower left. Each chart is engraved with shoreline, soundings, anchorage signs and crossing compass lines, and a scale of English miles runs below the central chart.
Hawkesworth's work brought together the discoveries of the British voyages of Byron, Wallis and Cook, and these charts were drawn for ships looking for safe anchorage on the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific.
