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CENTRAL AMERICA SOUTHERN UNITED STATES MEXICO 1712 DAMPIER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP

$ 16.36

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Date Range: 1700-1799
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Year: 1712
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Cartographer/Publisher: William Dampier
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Format: Atlas Map
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Printing Technique: Copper Plate
  • Type: County Map
  • Original/Reproduction: Antique Original

    Description

    CENTRAL AMERICA SOUTHERN UNITED STATES MEXICO 1712 DAMPIER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP
    CENTRAL AMERICA SOUTHERN UNITED STATES MEXICO 1712 DAMPIER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP
    Description
    Carte de la Partie du Milieu de l'Amerique.
    Description:
    Striking and highly detailed
    interesting 1712 William Dampier's copper engraved map depicting
    part of the route of Dampier's first circumnavigation voyage in the 1680s with his passage across the isthmus of Panama. The map covers the area of northern South America through Central America into what is now the southern United States with Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, Florida, and New Mexico named. There is an inset map detailing the Cape Verde islands with the route of exploration delineated. On the map, California is an island although only the southern portion is shown.
    Source:
    William Dampier. Voyage de Guillaume Dampier aux Terres Australes, à la Nouvelle Hollande, &c. A Amsterdam: Chez la Veuve de paul Marret, MDCCXII (1712)
    .
    Date:
    1712 ( undated )
    Dimension:
    Paper size approx.:
    cm 28,8 x 15,8
    Condition:
    Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Margin to the top missing. Lower margin missing
    . Short right lateral margin. Left lateral margin cut shortly. Paper with foxing and browning. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images
    .
    Mapmakers:
    William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was an English explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Francis Drake (16th century) and James Cook (18th century), he "bridged those two eras" with a mix of piratical derring-do of the former and scientific inquiry of the later. His expeditions were the among first to identify and name a number of plants, animals, foods, and cooking techniques for a European audience; being among the first English writers to use words such as avocado, barbecue, and chopsticks. In describing the preparation of avocados, he was the first European to describe the making of guacamole, named the breadfruit plant, and made frequent documentation of the taste of numerous foods foreign to the European palate such as flamingo and manatee.
    After impressing the Admiralty with his book A New Voyage Round the World, Dampier was given command of a Royal Navy ship and made important discoveries in western Australia, before being court-martialled for cruelty. On a later voyage he rescued Alexander Selkirk, a former crewmate who may have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Others influenced by Dampier include James Cook, Horatio Nelson, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace.
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