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Plan of a Bay and Harbour on the Coast of Chile


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A detailed navigational chart of Anna Pink Bay on the sourthern coast of Chile "Discovered by a Victualler to Commodore Anson's Squadron in the South Sea, 1741." The chart, from the first edition of Anson's A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, shows the route of the ship into and out of the harbor, and includes a coastal profiile of an island "call'd Inchin by the Indians" (today's Inchemo Island).
Item Number: rs1316
Cartographer: George Anson
Place & Date: London / 1748
Size: 13 3/8" x 10 1/4"
Condition: b&w; light overall age-toning, some overprinting and spotting
Price: SOLD