English world map showing Cook's Voyages

FADEN, William.

A New General Chart of the World, Exhibiting the Whole of the Discoveries made by the late Captain James Cook, F.E.R.S. with the Tracks of the Ships under his Command: also those of Capt.n Phipps, (the late Lord Mulgrave) Capt.n Ross and Capt.n Parry, in their Expeditions to the North Polar Seas.
London: James Wyld, 1838. Coloured. 460 x 600mm.

A map of the world on Mercator's Projection, centred on the Pacific Ocean to highlight the discoveries of not only Captain James Cook, but also the polar expeditions of Constantine Phipps (1773-4, with Nelson in his crew), Sir John Ross and William Parry (1818).


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