Windward of Hispaniola

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A New and Accurate Chart of the Windward Passage from Jamaica

with the Several Passages Northward of Hispaniola, and Part of the Old Channel of Bahama. Drawn from Actual Surveys made by the English & the French.

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[SAYER, Robert]
London,
Printed for Robert Sayer and John Bennett Fleet Street, as the Act Directs,
[before 1785].
Original working manuscript chart, pen and black ink on paper, right-hand sheet only.
525 by 705mm (20.75 by 27.75 inches).
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The Royal Collections at Greenwich record an example of this chart printed by Robert Sayer in 1787, and the Biblioteca National Espana an example, with addition of an inset beneath the title-cartouche, printed by Laurie and Whittle in 1794.

It is possible that the chart was not published at all until after the separation of Sayer and Bennett in 1785, with the latter's name removed from the imprint. ...