Item details: A Chart for the Newcastle Trade Describeing the Sea Coasts of England from the South Foreland to New=Castle wth the Soundings, Sands, Shoals, Harbours Buoys Beacons and Seamarks, upon ye said Coasts
£ 395.00
MOUNT, Richard & PAGE, Thomas
A Chart for the Newcastle Trade Describeing the Sea Coasts of England from the South Foreland to New=Castle wth the Soundings, Sands, Shoals, Harbours Buoys Beacons and Seamarks, upon ye said Coasts
Imprint: London, W & J Mount and T. Page at the Postern on Tower Hill, 1749
515 x 1035 mm., two sheets joined as one, minor margin repair at the outer edge of upper centre fold, not affecting the map, otherwise in good condition.
This chart of the east coast of England extending from Newcastle to the Thames Estuary. It focuses on the Newcastle Trade or the shipment of coal from the north east to the city of London and the south east. Insets illustrate the Falmouth Sands, Harwich and a more detailed coastal chart of the area from Sunderland to Blyth. It was published in Mount & Page's 'English Pilot First Part' covering the Southern Navigation and was included from at least 1729. Shirley 'Atlases in the BL' M.M&P 1b no. 2.
