COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Guyana coast.
Obj Height cm:
52
Obj Width cm:
69
Scale 1:
3,000,000
Note:
Engraved map. with 4 inset maps. Outline hand col. Relief shown pictorially; depths by soundings. Includes notes and table of astronomical observations. "This geohydrographic survey of Guyana is inscribed to the merchants of Barbadoes and Guyana ... by ... Edw. Thompson." "Approved by the Chart Committee of the Admiralty." "55" on verso.
Reference:
Catalogue of maps of Hispanic America, v. 3, p. 82; Phillips. Maps of America, p. 309.
Full Title:
The coast of Guyana from the Oroonoko to the River of Amazons and inland parts as far as they have been explored by the French & Dutch engineers, with the islands of Barbadoes, Tobago &ca. From the observations of Captain Edward Thompson, made in the Hyaena, in the year 1781, when he commanded in the rivers Berbice, Essequebo and Demerari, and governed those colonies after their conquest from the Dutch. By L.S. de la Rochette. MDCCLXXXIII. (with) Entrance of River Berbice by Captn. E.T. (with) Surinam River from the Dutch -- Port of Cayenne from the French. (with) The entrances of the rivers Essequebo and Demerari by Captain Thompson. London, engraved & published by Willm. Faden, Geographer to the King, Charing-Cross; Octor. 6th, 1783.
List No:
2104.060
Page No:
55
Series No:
62
Pub Date:
1811
Pub Title:
(General atlas. 1811)
Pub Reference:
Cf Phillips 6010, 6013, 6047.
Pub Note:
See note field above.
Pub List No:
2104.000
Pub Maps:
56
Pub Height cm:
60
Pub Width cm:
47
Image No:
2104060
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 2005
Publisher Location:
London
Publisher:
William Faden
Type:
Atlas Map
Type:
Chart Map
Country:
Guyana
Country:
Surinam
Region:
Guiana
Publication Author:
Faden, William, 1750?-1836
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Author:
Delarochette, Louis Stanislas d'Arcy
Author:
Faden, William, 1750?-1836
Author:
Thompson, Edward, Capt.
Date:
1783
Guyana coast.
