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18th century English map of St Helena and Saldanha

St. Helena. The Bay of Agoa de Saldanha.

London: Thomas Bowles and John Bowles, 1732. Fine original outline colour. 280 x 210mm.
Stock #:  25871

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Two maps on one sheet. Above is a map of St Helena, over eighty yeas before Napoleon's exile there. A note reads 'This Island belongs to ye English East India Company whose ships usually touch here for a recuit of fresh Water and Provisions'. Below is a chart of Saldanha Bay, South Africa, a sheltered harbour nesar the Cape of Good Hope. Moll first published his 'Atlas Minor' in 1729 but, shortly after his death in 1732, Thomas Bowles and his son John reissued it with plate numbers added.

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Trimmed to plate lower right.

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