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Plan of the Island of Fernand [sic] de Noronha.

From a French Survey. Compared with the Survey made by The Colchester man of war in 1760.

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SAYER, Robert
London,
Printed for Robert Sayer, Fleet Street,
[c.1785, or later].
Original working manuscript chart, pen and black ink on paper, inscribed "108" lower right.
505 by 630mm (20 by 24.75 inches).
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The strategic island of Noronho was surveyed by Alexander Dalrymple, and published as a 'Plan and View of the Island Fernando Noronha' in his atlas of 1783. As no published example of a separate chart dedicated to Noronha can be found published by Robert Sayer, it is possible he put it aside after the success of Dalrymple's charts. ...