A compleat sett of new charts, containing the North-Sea, Cattegatt, and Baltick; wherein the head-lands, islands, soundings, banks, shoals and dangers are laid down in their proper places, and the errors of the former charts corrected, by the observations of the British officers, belonging to the squadron employ'd in those seas. Also draughts, of several particular parts of the coast, which contain roads, bays, harbours, fuers, and passages at large, being preferable to any one of this kind heretofore published. The whole collected together, revised and approved of by the Honourable Sr John Norris, Kt. Admiral of the Blew, &c. Who commanded the British squadron employ'd in those seas several years; and published by his order.
Norris, John, Sir
Category
Books
Date
1723
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3230354
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4] p., [20] double leaves of plates (12 folded) : maps ; fol. Running number: 7885. Manuscript contents list in eighteenth-century hand on sheet of paper pasted onto front pastedown. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ιε'." [i.e. iota epsilon = Greek number 15]. Binding: eighteenth-century full blind-panelled sheepskin (rubbed, joints cracked); sewn onto four sewing supports; six raised bands; double blind fillet border forming sprinkled outer panel; triple blind fillet forming plain inner panel with sprinkled pattern, with blind cornerpiece stamps; double gilt fillet decoration and gilt title 'Norris's Charts of ye Baltick' on spine; brown sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Norris, John, Sir, author Emanuel Bowen (1714-1767), engraver (printmaker)