A Chart of the China Sea, and Philippine Islands, with the Archipelagos of Felicia and Sooloo, shewing… …Canton and Balambangan,… composed from an original drawing, communicated by Capt. Robert Carr. and compared with the map of Pedro Murillo de Velarde, engraved at Manilla in 1734…. insets: 1) The Ports of Ylocos, on the West Coast of Luzon. 2) The Bay of Subic, on the West Coast of Luzon.

Description

copper engraving. EXTREMELY RARE

Glorious sea chart from “The Complete East-India Pilot, or Oriental Navigator”, vol. II, no. 109, printed and published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle in London with many interesting features, including not one but two treasure ships: An Acapulco – Manila Galleon and an East India ship of the British.
New Edition in two large volumes “neatly engraved on 132 plates …and corrected to the present year”.
The DEFINITIVE collector’s Treasure Map, one of the rarest and the largest map with attribution to Murillo in the 18th Century.
A complete background text is available upon request by interested buyer.