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2017-94, Map
A Chart of the Atlantick Ocean From Buttons Island to Port Royall
2017-94, Map

A Chart of the Atlantick Ocean From Buttons Island to Port Royall

Date1728
Engraver Nathaniel Cutler
Maker Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742)
OriginEngland, London
MediumLine engraving on laid paper
DimensionsOverall: 21 × 24 1/2in. (53.3 × 62.2cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number2017-94
DescriptionCartouche (upper right): "A CHART OF THE/ ATLANTICK/ OCEAN/ from Buttons Island/ TO PORT ROYALL"


Label TextThis maritime chart shows the eastern seaboard of North American from the Carolinas to Labrador, featuring an enlarged inset of the Chesapeake Bay. It was published in the 1728 "Atlas maritimus & commercialis; or, A general view of the world, so far as relates to trade and navigation" by cartographers Nathaniel Cutler and Edmond Halley. The maps in this atlas drew on Cutler's new "globular projection," which was more accurate than other projections used at the time.

Photo: Detail of Inset.

This copy is published in William C. Wooldridge, Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), #93, pp. 96-97.
DS1995-0583
THE/ MAPS AND CHARTS/ TO THE/ MODERN PART/ OF THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY.
1766
D2006-CMD-428
A New and Correct CHART/ Shewing the VARIATIONS of the/ COMPASS/ in the/ WESTERN & SOUTHERN/ OCEANS...
ca. 1700
A NEW AND ACCURATE CHART/ OF THE/ BAY OF CHESAPEAKE,/ with all the Shoals, Channels, Islands, Entrances, Soundings, and Sailing-marks,/ as far as the Navigable Part of/ THE RIVERS PATOWMACK, PATAPSCO AND NORTH-EAST.
A NEW AND ACCURATE CHART/ OF THE/ BAY OF CHESAPEAKE,/ with all the Shoals, Channels, Islands, Entrances, Soundings, and Sailing-marks,/ as far as the Navigable Part of/ THE RIVERS PATOWMACK, PATAPSCO AND NORTH-EAST.
1776
1984-209, Map
CHART of the ATLANTIC OCEAN, with the BRITISH, FRENCH, & SPANISH/ Settlements in NORTH AMERICA, and the WEST INDIES;/ as also on the Coast of AFRICA.
1768
1989-199, Map
A/ GENERAL/ CHART of the/ WESTERN/ OCEAN.
1743-1765 (originally published 1721)
D2006-CMD-438
A NEW & ACCURATE MAP/ of/ BERMUDAS/ or/ SOMMERS ISLANDS,/ AN ACCURATE MAP/ of the ISLAND of/ S.T CHRISTOPHER,/ vulgarly called/ S.T KITS,
1748
D2006-CMD-433
A Chart of the/ WEST INDIA'S/ From Cape Cod to the River/ Oronoque
ca. 1685
1985-165, Map
A New & Exact MAP of the Coast, Countries/ and Islands within y.e LIMITS of y.e/ SOUTH SEA COMPANY,/ from y.e River Aranoca to Terra del Fuego, and from thence/ through y.e South Sea to y.e North Part of California &c.
ca. 1740 (originally published 1711)
KC1973-342
THE/ AMERICAN/ Military Pocket Atlas;/ BEING/ An approved Collection of Correct MAPS,/ BOTH GENERAL AND PARTICULAR,/ OF/ THE BRITISH COLONIES;/ Especially those which now are, or probably may be/ THE THEATRE OF WAR:
1776
D2006-CMD-436
A/ NEW and ACCURATE CHART/ of the/ WEST INDIES,/ with the Adjacent Coasts of NORTH/ and SOUTH AMERICA.
1748
1973-320, Map
A NEW MAP of the TERRAQUEOUS GLOBE according/ to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into CONTINENTS and OCEANS.
1700-1701
A Chart of the Coast of New York, New Jersey; Pennsilvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, &c.
A Chart of the Coast of New York, New Jersey; Pennsilvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, &c.
1780