Adam's Christmas Art & Literature 13 December 2016 : Click Lot Title for More Info

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Chart of Galway Bay and the Shannon Estuary (865 x 595mm)

This chart is from Le Neptune Francois, published by Pieter Mort-

ier and Hubert Jaillot in Amsterdam in 1693. “Carte Particuliere

Des Costes Occidentales D’Irlande Qui comprend la Baye de

Galloway Et la Riviere de Lymerick. Comme elles paroissent a

basse mer dans les grands Marees. Levee et Gravee Par Ordre

du Roy. A Paris. 1693.” Below this are the scales “Echelles Lieues

de France et d’Angleterre a 20 par degre 4 [= 146 mm.] Lieues

d’Allemagne a 15 par degre 3 [= 146 mm.] Lieues d’Espagne a 17

1/2 par degre 3 [= 127 mm.] Milles d’Irlande 8 [= 122 mm.] Toises

1000 [= 128 mm.]”. “Echelles Mille d’Irlande 1 [= 134 mm.] Mille

d’Angleterre 1 [= 108 mm.] Toises 1000 [= 104 mm.] Quart de

Lieue de France a 20 par degre 1 [= 82 mm.]”.

Provenance: The Richard S.J. Clarke Collection

€ 120 - 160

Chart of the West Coast of Ireland

The title is in a circular frame in the centre and reads “A New Chart Of The

West Coast of Ireland. Drawn from The Latest Surveys by William Heather.

1807”. This is part of a series of three charts covering the north, west and

south coast of Ireland, first published in 1807. It overlaps chart IV to include

Sligo town and butts on the chart VI to the south.

It shows the coast from Sligo town to Mutton Island in Galway Bay. Below

the title is “Stephenson Engraver” and below the frame is the imprint “Lon-

don. Published as the Act directs. January 1st <x-apple-data-detectors://13>

1807, by William Heather, at the Navigation Warehouse, No. 157 Leadenhall

Stret”. There are scattered coastal profiles, notes on the sea bottom, tide

and current marks and numerous soundings. There are also one and a half

compass roses showing north to the left and scales of latitude and longitude

west from Greenwich on all four sides. Magnetic variation is dated 1807.

State 3 (1833). There is no date in the title but the date in the title frame

now reads “Additions to 1833.” The Norrie and Stephenson references in the

frame are as before. The magnetic variation is undated. (625 x 785 mm.).

Provenance: The Richard S.J. Clarke Collection

€ 100 - 200