Author: James Horsburgh
Publisher: James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the Hon[ora]ble E[east].I[ndia]. Company on 2 June, 1828. According to Act of Parliament".
Year: 1828
Size: 94.8 x 63.7 cm [inset: c. 24 x 22.1 cm]
Reference: Tooley's vol.2, p376
Eastern Passages to China Sheet III. inset: Plan of Manilla Bay, surveyed in 1792 by Don Felipe Bauza. [Eastern Philippines]
₱99,000.00
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Description
lithograph map (sea chart). EXTREMELY RARE.
Horsburgh (1762-1836) seems to have published his first work for the East India Company in 1800 “Strait of Macasser”, 1806-1821 “Atlas of the East Indies” and “East India Pilot” in 1817 followed. He was elected member of the Royal Society in 1806 and officially appointed “Hydrographer to the East India Company” in 1810 – after the death of Dalrymple.
NOTE: Large-scale “Working Sea Charts” are inherently extremely rare due to the nature of their usage.
Condition
professionally restored and rebacked, areas of infill along top and bottom borders.
