CANARY ISLANDS 1790 BORDA OVERSIZE ANTIQUE NAUTICAL MAP

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Double your traffic. Carte Particuliére des Iles Canaries et des Cotes voisines d'Afrique Dressée sous le Ministere de Mr. Sartine Sécretaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine, D'après les Obsérvations faites en 1776 sur la Boussole et l'Espiegle. Publiée par Ordre du Roi Par le Ch.r de Borda Cap.e de V.au . Description: Stricking and hightly detailed large-format copper engraved nautical chart of Canary Islands, Spain . Map is filled with sounding, coastal reliefs, harbous. Map includes 10 coastal reliefs and three incet maps. Map with fleur-de-lys radiating rhumb lines. Date: 1790 Dimension: Pa per size approx.: cm 88,8 x 57,8 Condition: Very strong a nd dark impression on very strong paper. Uncolored as issued. Good margins . Lower right corner partially missed. Small browning. Map washed and retsored. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Cartographer: Jean-Charles de Borda , (born May 4, 1733, Dax, France—died February 20, 1799, Paris), French mathematician and nautical astronomer noted for his studies of fluid mechanics and his development of instruments for navigation and geodesy, the study of the size and shape of the Earth. Borda entered the French army at an early age and later transferred to the navy, where he attained the rank of capitaine de vaisseau (“post captain”), took part in several scientific voyages, read more
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