Price: £200.00

• Date: 1767
• Condition: AAA
• Colour: BW
• Size (cm): 13.3 x 43.2

Title: Charte von dem Stillen Meer zwischen dem Aequato. Engraver: Schmidt, after Anson

Publication: A collection of Authentic, useful and entertaining voyages and discoveries..., J. Barrow (German edition, Leipzig 1767)

Description: A Chart of the Pacific Ocean from the Equinoctial to the Latitude of 39 1/2 North.
A rare chart showing the route of Spanish galleon Nostra Seigniora de Cabadongas between the Philippines and Acapulco. George Anson, commander of a Pacific squadron fitted out to raid Spanish possessions along the South American coast, captured this galleon, which was loaded with silver and two important maps that detailed the route Manila galleons had followed across the Pacific for almost two hundred years. This capture enabled the British to disrupt this vital Spanish commerce. Anson's mission turned into a circumnavigation of the world. It took him 45 months and cost, 6 ships lost, 1000 men lost to scurvy, 300 men lost to typhus and dysentery, and unknown number to shipwrecks and 4 in action. I calculate that on average 1 person per day died during the voyage. Anson was later promoted to First Lord of the Admiralty. Good detail of the Pacific islands.

Condition: Aged toned. Folds as issued.