Isle of Man

56x45 cm

To the Hon.^ble S.^R IOHN LOWTHER Bar.t One of the Commissiners for Executing the Office of Lord Highe Admirall of England. 1688

Sea chart showing the Irish Sea with the coasts of North Wales and Anglesey, Lancashire, Cumberland and Scotland, with the Isle of Man. North is to the right. Insets of coastal features; 'Thus sheweth Great and Little Orme's head when you go over the best of Chester Barr' and 'Thus sheweth the 3 Hills when you are on the shoal est of Chester barr, the 3 Hills bear S.^o'

First published in Great Britains Coasting Pilot... By Captain Greenvile Collins...in 1693, the work was re-issued several times until 1785 and was a landmark in the charting of the seas around Britain, being the first English Pilot Book of the whole of the coasts of Britain. 
Some light spotting and some nicks and short tears to ther paper edges but, with good margins all round, none reaching the plate edge.