Price: $1,500.00
SKU: 56850
ARTIST: Nathaniel Bowditch
MEDIUM: Engraving,
DATE: 1806 -1834 (early 20th century)
EDITION SIZE: 21 1/4 x 26" (541 x 650 mm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: A rare, separately issued chart of the coastline and harbors of Salem, Beverly, Marblehead and Manchester. In 1804, Nathaniel Bowditch undertook the task of surveying the waters around Salem, as he found the existing charts to be insufficiently detailed or accurate. He and a group of assistants spent eighty days mapping the waters from Lynn to Manchester. The resulting chart is filled with information on soundings, rocks & shoals, and anchorages. It includes Great Misery, Baker's, Cat and House Islands. Salem Neck and Marblehead Neck are also well delineated. The cartouche is handsomely embellished with a scene of a sloop rounding lighthouse, ship and a wharf. Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) was born in Salem, Massachusetts to a family of coopers. He was largely self-taught in navigation, classical languages, and mathematics, and became captain of a merchant ship that voyaged from the East Indies to Europe. During those voyages, he compared his navigational information with that of John Hamilton Moore's The Practical Navigator, and found more than 8,000 errors. In 1799 he issued a revised edition of Moore's work, entitled The New Practical Navigator. In 1802 the first edition of Bowditch's American Practical Navigator was published. It became the shipping industry standard in the Western Hemisphere for the next century and a half. Second Edition Nov. 1, 1834. "Additions and alterations made in the Second Edition by Charles M. Endicott with the assistance of Joseph Perkins Jr. Branch Pilot." It is known in the trade that there is an early 20th century restrike from the original copper plate. It is my opinion that this impression is one of those restrikes. Engraved by Hooker & Fairman.
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CONDITION: Very good condition. Black & white.
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