SAYER (Robert). & BENNETT (John).

An Hydrographical Survey of the Coast of Devonshire, from Exmouth Bar to Stoke Point, containing the River Exe, Torbay, Dartmouth, Start Bay and Bigbury Bay. ...

Double-page engraved chart, 690 x 520 mm. Short split to the centrefold, and a little creasing, 1779.

£500.00

From the First Edition of Sayer and Bennett’s The Channel Pilot: comprehending the English and French Coasts …; this was the first new English sea-atlas of the Channel coasts for over eighty years, forming a substantial improvement on the Greenville Collins’ Great Britains’ Coasting Pilot and the English Pilot … the Southern Navigation …, both published by Mount and Page, and long out-of-date. This was published during the American Revolutionary War, at a time of heightened fear of invasion by America’s allies the French.

With a large inset of Dartmouth Haven and the lower course of the River Dart.

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222783