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BARNETT, Edward (1799-1879) and OWEN, Edward (1771-1849). A New Chart of the Gulfs of Mexico and Florida including the Windward Passages. London: James Imray & Son, 1853.
A rare large format sea chart of the Gulf Coast, Florida, Cuba, and the Caribbean based on the surveys of Admiral Edward Owen and Commander Edward Barnett. The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society reported in 1842 that Commander Barnett had been “for some years engaged, alternately according to the season, along the coast of Mexico and among the Bahama islands. The details of these last were till recently quite unknown, and their longitude in some places, erroneous by a whole degree. The minute examination of the many dangerous shoals, and bays, and coral banks, which are found in these seas has been followed by real benefit : Commander Barnett will now press forward into the Gulf of Mexico...” This map is the product of that work and extends from Texas in the west to Trinidad and Tobago in the east. WorldCat records only one copy at the University of Texas at Arlington. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction.
Engraved map (2580 x 980mm), 3 joined sheets, canvas-backed, with a sewn cloth border (a little light soiling). Provenance: light pencil notes in a few places.
A rare large format sea chart of the Gulf Coast, Florida, Cuba, and the Caribbean based on the surveys of Admiral Edward Owen and Commander Edward Barnett. The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society reported in 1842 that Commander Barnett had been “for some years engaged, alternately according to the season, along the coast of Mexico and among the Bahama islands. The details of these last were till recently quite unknown, and their longitude in some places, erroneous by a whole degree. The minute examination of the many dangerous shoals, and bays, and coral banks, which are found in these seas has been followed by real benefit : Commander Barnett will now press forward into the Gulf of Mexico...” This map is the product of that work and extends from Texas in the west to Trinidad and Tobago in the east. WorldCat records only one copy at the University of Texas at Arlington. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction.
Engraved map (2580 x 980mm), 3 joined sheets, canvas-backed, with a sewn cloth border (a little light soiling). Provenance: light pencil notes in a few places.