Charles Price’s rare Maritime Atlas

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Atlas Maritimus or New Sea Atlas,

Describing the Coasts, Ports, Harbours, Bays, Roads, Rivers, Rocks, Sands, Buoys, Beacons, Sea-Marks, Depth of Water, Bearings and Distances from Place to Place, the Setting and Flowing of the Tides, Currents, Trade-Winds, Monsoons, &c. with an Exact Representation of the most Principal Lands, and Directions for the Knowing of any Place, and how to Harbour a Ship in the same Safety, in all The Known Parts of the Globe, According to the best observations and latest discoveries of the ablest navigators.

PRICE, Charles
London, Bristol, Liverpool, and Dublin,
Printed by T. Gover: and sold by J. Atkinson at the Cherry-Garden-Stairs, in Rotherith; J. Eades, at King Edward's-Stairs, Wapping; B. Macy, at the Hermitage-Brdge; J. Clarke, Bookseller, at the Exchange, T. Heath, Mathematical Instrument-Maker, next the Fountain-Tavern, in the Strand; M. Penn, Bookseller in Bristol; J. Anzdal, Bookseller, in Liverpool; and G. Grierson, Bookseller, in Dublin,
1732.
Folio, (515 by 330mm), title page, and 25 double-page engraved charts, of which 14 are in fine original outline colour, some dust soiling, four charts trimmed to within upper neatline, and two within upper and lower neatline, lower right corner of title page skilfully repaired in facsimile, eighteenth century English panelled calf to style.
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The second extant example of Charles Price's 'Atlas Maritimus'.

History of the atlas

In 1729, Charles Price published a chart of the English Channel, which included a large note advertising his intention to publish a new sea atlas of the whole world:

"The Great want of a good sett of Sea Charts those now extant in Great Britain (excepting for our own Coasts) being mostly taken from old Dutch Waggoners &c. put me for some years past upon Col...

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M. PRI-1a; Berkley ff VK801.P8 1732.