![HOBBS, J[ohn] S[tatton] A Chart of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, &c.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2973_1H.jpg?fit=1700%2C1162&ssl=1)
Rare chart of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America. 
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John Browne Compass Maker and Ship Chandler
London,
No. 5 Stoney Lane, near Pickle Herring Stairs, Southwark
[before 1750].
Engraved trade card.
120 by 125mm. (4.75 by 5 inches).
17848
notes:
An early trade card for John Browne, who subsequently moved to "near Wapping Old Stairs" where he sold "all Sorts of Instruments for Sea or Land, As Compasses, Glasses, Lathorns, & Colours. Likewise Books for Navigation & Sea Charts, Also Guns, Gunpowder, Shot, and all Sorts of Ship Chandlery and Turnery Wares".
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bibliography:
See BM Heal for a later, c1750, trade card for Browne
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