Publisher:
1801,
broadside plan, etching and acquatint with hand colouring, letter pressûdescription, image size 24cm x 54cm, overall size 48cm x 60cm, small tearsûto edge, some light browning due to age, wove paper with watermark butûundated, an attractive item. AJS: David Steel (1733-1799). Publisher with premises at the NavigationûWarehouse, Tower Hill, London. He and his son, also called Davidû(1763-1803), were the leading publishers of nautical books and sea-chartsûin the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Without doubt two of theirûtitles between them represent the high water mark of English naut...
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