NORTHWEST PASSAGE CANADA GREENLAND NORTHERN EUROPE 1749 HENRY ELLIS ANTIQUE MAP

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NORTHWEST PASSAGE CANADA GREENLAND NORTHERN EUROPE 1749 HENRY ELLIS ANTIQUE MAP
NORTHWEST PASSAGE CANADA GREENLAND NORTHERN EUROPE 1749 HENRY ELLIS ANTIQUE MAP
Description
Nouvelle cCarte des Parties où l'on a cherché le Passage de Nord-Ouest dans les années 1746 et 1747, Représentant la route des Vaisseaux dans cette expédition par Henry Ellis.
Description:
Striking and highly detailed
fine
scarce important copper engraved map showing the tracks of Henry Ellis' journey in search of the Northwest Passage in 1746 and 1747. Covers eastern Canada, southern Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom, Ireland & the Atlantic coastline of France and northern Spain. The map is filled with good topographic detail on bays, rivers, islands and sandbanks. A large decorative title cartouche and a compass rose radiating rhumb lines complete the map. The map has been engraved by Jean Lattré.
Henry Ellis (1721-1806) accompanied Moor and Smith as agent for the Northwest Committee, and as surveyor, hydrographer, and mineralogist for the expedition.
Their extensive exploration of the western coast of Hudson Bay, between the Nelson River and Wager Bay, discovered no Northwest Passage, further discouraging British interest in similar future voyages. Yet, afterwards, Ellis still persisted in the belief, in fact devoting over thirty pages at the end of his account to arguments for the great probability of a passage—from the evidence of climate, produce, height and direction of tides, and the “Appearance of the Country”—and suggested Chesterfield Inlet and Repulse Bay as future possibilities for exploration. His book contains many valuable observations on animals, Eskimo (Inuit) dress and life, and compass and tidal variations.
The accompanying map is from the first French edition of Ellis's work, published in Paris in 1749.
Date:
1749 ( undated )
Dimension:
Paper size approx.:
cm
45,8 x 17,6
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Quite top and lower margins. Short lateral margins. Minor loosing atright lateral margin. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Small tears. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images
.
Mapmaker:
Jean Lattré (170x - 178x) was a Paris based bookseller, engraver, globe maker, calligrapher, and map publisher active in the mid to late 18th century. Lattré published a large corpus of maps, globes, and atlases in conjunction with a number of other important French cartographic figures, including Janvier, Zannoni, Bonne and Delamarche. He is also known to have worked with other European cartographers such as William Faden of London and the Italian cartographer Santini. Map piracy and copyright violations were common in 18th century France. Paris court records indicate that Lattré brought charges against several other period map publishers, including fellow Frenchman Desnos and the Italian map engraver Zannoni, both of whom he accused of copying his work. Lattré likes trained his wife Madame Lattré (né Vérard), as an engraver, as a late 18th century trade card promotes the world of 'Lattré et son Epouse.' Lattré's offices and bookshop were located at 20 rue St. Jaques, Paris, France. Later in life he relocated to Bordeaux.
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