A New Chart of the WORLD on Mercator’s Projection: exhibiting the tracks & discoveries of the most eminent navigator’s to the present period.

Clear and accurate map of the early nineteenth-century world, coloured by continent. Showing the routes of Cook, La Perouse, Gore and Vancouver. Title at lower centre. Short notes on map. e.g. (north of Siberia): ‘At this place was found a kettle and cleft pieces of wood.’ John Cary was considered 'the most representative, able and prolific of English cartographers'. Tooley says, 'As an engraver he was elegant and exact with fine clear lettering and great delicacy of touch'. When the Ordnance Survey began accurately mapping the UK, they used John Cary's style as the basis for their work.

Good condition overall.