Research Catalog

Title

Atlas maritimus, or, The sea-atlas : being a book of maritime charts describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks, and dangers, the bays, roads, harbors, rivers and ports, in most of the known parts of the world : collected from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by divers able and experienced navigators of our English nation : accommodated with a hydrographical description of the whole world, shewing the chief cities, towns, and places of trade and commerce, with the nature of the commodities and merchandizes of each country, very useful for merchants and all other persons concerned in maritime affairs / by John Seller, hydrographer to the King.

Author

Seller, John, active 1658-1698.

Publication

London : Printed by John Darby for the author, and are to be sold at his shop at the Hermitage in Wapping, 1675.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Darby, John, 1624 or 1625-1704.

Description

1 atlas ([6], 12, 4 pages, [40] leaves of plates) : 20 maps; 45 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

• Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 315.
• Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 317.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Alternative Title

• Atlas maritimus
• Sea-atlas
• Sea atlas
• Atlas maritimus, or, A book of charts

Subject

• Nautical charts > Early works to 1800

Note

• Depths shown by soundings on some charts.
• "Cum privilegio Regis."
• [6] pages mentioned in collation include added engraved title page, letterpress title page, copyright statement of King Charles II, preface, and introduction.
• Maps include ill. with decorative cartouches, compass roses, and coats of arms. Added title page includes portraits.

Indexed In (note)

• Phillips

Call Number

Map Div. 97-6040

OCLC

47829715

Author

Seller, John, active 1658-1698.

Title

Atlas maritimus, or, The sea-atlas : being a book of maritime charts describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks, and dangers, the bays, roads, harbors, rivers and ports, in most of the known parts of the world : collected from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by divers able and experienced navigators of our English nation : accommodated with a hydrographical description of the whole world, shewing the chief cities, towns, and places of trade and commerce, with the nature of the commodities and merchandizes of each country, very useful for merchants and all other persons concerned in maritime affairs / by John Seller, hydrographer to the King.

Imprint

London : Printed by John Darby for the author, and are to be sold at his shop at the Hermitage in Wapping, 1675.

Cartographic Data

Scales differ.

Indexed In:

Phillips 487

Phillips 4154

Local Note

NYPL copy in Map Div. 97-6040 imperfect: lacks sequence of 12 pages and map no. [18].

NYPL copy in Map Div. 97-6040: maps numbered by hand in ink, from 1 to 20, on upper right corner of each verso.

NYPL copy in Map Div. 97-6040: bound in board covers.

NYPL copy in Map Div. 97-6239: imperfect, maps only, in loose sheets. 21 maps ; hand colored. 17 maps folded and shelved in protective enclosure; 4 maps filed flat.

NYPL copy in Map Div. 97-6239, maps filed flat: [2] and [3], The right ascensions and declinations of the principal fixed starrs in both hemisphears to ye year 1678 -- [4], Zodiacus stellatus cujus limitibus planetarum omnium visibiles viae comprehenduntur -- [37] Novissima et accuratissima insulae Jamaicae.

NYPL copy in Map Div. 97-6549 imperfect: maps lacking. Added engraved title page lacking. Includes text: [4], 12, 4 pages. Annotations in ink on title page, in upper right corner and directly beneath author statement.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Darby, John, 1624 or 1625-1704.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 97-6040 [LHS 315; atlas cases]

Map Div. 97-6549 [LHS 315A; atlas cases]

Map Div. 97-6239 [LHS 317; loose sheets filed flat; additional sheets folded in enclosure in atlas cases]