[Untitled Chart of 'The Island of Diego Rays']

£500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Very scarce chart of the island of ‘Diego Rays’, now Isle Rodrigues part of the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean, named after the Portuguese explorer Dom Diego Rodrigues. It was added to late edition of John Thornton’s The English Pilot … for the Oriental Navigation … published by the Mount and Page family.

• Year: 1745

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