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Blue-Back Chart of the Bay of Biscay

STEEL & CO.

The Bay of Biscay, From the Latest Original Executed at the French Depot Marine. Embellished with Views Taken by Admiral Knight. Second Edition. Revised and Corrected Octr. 25th, 1813.
London: 1813, coloured, 690 x 830mm.

Backed onto blue paper as issued. Some faint staining.

A detailed chart of the Bay of Biscay from Ushant to Cape Finisterre in northern Spain, with four inset charts of harbours and rivers, and coastal profiles after Knight, a Rear Admiral of the Blue.

Published during the Napoleonic War the chart is apparently based on a captured French chart. However, on verso is the label of Arbon & Krup, a firm of chart sellers in Rotterdam: the Dutch were allies of the French in the war.


Stock ID : 9661

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Stock Id :9661

Download Image

Blue-Back Chart of the Bay of Biscay

STEEL & CO.

The Bay of Biscay, From the Latest Original Executed at the French Depot Marine. Embellished with Views Taken by Admiral Knight. Second Edition. Revised and Corrected Octr. 25th, 1813.
London: 1813, coloured, 690 x 830mm.

Backed onto blue paper as issued. Some faint staining.

A detailed chart of the Bay of Biscay from Ushant to Cape Finisterre in northern Spain, with four inset charts of harbours and rivers, and coastal profiles after Knight, a Rear Admiral of the Blue.

Published during the Napoleonic War the chart is apparently based on a captured French chart. However, on verso is the label of Arbon & Krup, a firm of chart sellers in Rotterdam: the Dutch were allies of the French in the war.


Stock ID : 9661

£650

£650

Return To Listing