Marine Cartography in Britain. A history of sea charts to 1855

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Scholarly and wide ranging. Contains profiles of surveyors and chartmakers from 16th century. Chapters include: 'Early manuscript charts of the sixteenth century'; 'Sea atlases'; 'Development of an accurate marine survey technique'; 'The role of the 'amateur' hydrographer in the eighteenth century'; 'Birth of official hydrography'; 'The private chart publishers' [pp114-26]; 'The Grand Survey of the British Isles'. An appendix contains 'Additional biographical notes on some [c21] sixteenth century surveyors and chartmakers' [pp145-51]. The profiles of the 'private chart publishers' include: Joseph Moxon; John Seller; John Thornton; William Fisher; Richard Mount; Mount & Page; Sayer & Bennett; Emmanuel Bowen; Thomas Kitchin; Thomas Jefferys; William Faden; William Heather; Steel & Co; Laurie & Whittle; J W Norie; Aaron Arrowsmith; Charles Wilson; James Imray.