Subject: North Atlantic
Period: 1747 (circa)
Publication: A Complete System of Geography
Color: Black & White
Size:
9 x 12.8 inches
22.9 x 32.5 cm
This attractive copper engraving includes four maps of islands in the North Atlantic on one sheet. Of particular interest is the depiction of a spurious "whirlpool" off the southern coast of Sunderoe Island (Suouroy Island, southernmost of the Faroe Islands), which is also depicted in the map of the Faroe Islands at lower left. Hekla is depicted as an active volcano in the map of Iceland, and a note in the map of Greenland indicates "the coast is dangerous of access, because of floating and fixed mountains of ice."
References: McCorkle (18th C. Geography Books) #17-41 (Vol II); Shirley (BL Atlases) T.BOW-2a #71.
Condition: B+
A dark impression with light offsetting from an opposing page and a small ink stain at right.