A Large Chart of Part of the Coast of Coromandell from Point Pedro to Armegon

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

This chart was prepared for the First Edition of John Thornton’s The English Pilot. The Third Book , a pilot guide with charts describing the sea-route round Africa to the East Indies and Far East, the first volume of its kind published anywhere in Europe. The south-eastern coast of India from the northern tip of Ceylon to Armegon. This is the third state of the chart with the imprint of Samuel Thornton erased, but not replaced; the plate had passed to Mount and Page after the death of Samuel Thornton in 1715 who made the alteration.

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