PANAMA 1712 WILLIAM DAMPIER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE ORIIGNAL COPPER ENGRAVED MAP

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PANAMA 1712 WILLIAM DAMPIER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE ORIIGNAL COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
PANAMA 1712 WILLIAM DAMPIER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE ORIIGNAL COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
Description
Carte de l'Isthme de Darien et du Golfe de Panama.
Description:
Striking and highly detailed
interesting 1712 William Dampier's unusual copper engraved map showing
the activities of William Dampier and his fellow buccaneers in Central America. It depicts the route of their raid across the inhospitable Isthmus of Darien to the Gulf of Panama where they captured Spanish ships and raided Spanish settlements. Locates Panama [City], Portobello, and several villages. At the top of the chart are two insets: Cote Septentr. De l'Isthme de l'Amerique a l'Ouest de Panama; and Cote Merid de l'Isthme de l'Amerique a l'Ouest de Panama.
References: Kapp (Panama) #39.
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 17,4 x 16,1
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Margin to the top cut very shortly. Lower margin missing. Quite right lateral margin. Small left lateral margine
. Small foxing and browning. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images
.
Mapmaker:
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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