Engraver:
LOWRY, Joseph Wilson
Title:
THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, ON THE GNOMONIC PROJECTION. Shewing the relative position of Great Britain to her American & West Indian Possessions. The Soundings, Currents, & Sargasso Sea, according to Lieut. Maury.
Stock Code:
7148
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
Walter Grahame Blackie
Colouring:
Original outline colour
Atlas:
THE IMPERIAL ATLAS OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY; AN EXTENSIVE SERIES OF MAPS, EMBRACING THE MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES AND THE LATEST POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF TERRITORY IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
Size: (W x H):
34cm x 25cm
13½ inches x 10 inches
Date:
1860
Price:
£75
Detailed map of the North Atlantic Ocean showing depth soundings, currents and the seaweed in the Sargasso Sea. The Sargasso sea lies roughly between the West Indies and the Azores, and is part of the North Atlantic Ocean. It was so named because there is a kind of seaweed which lazily floats over its entire expanse called sargassum.
Fine Condition.