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LAURIE & WHITTLE. A New Chart of the Java Sea, within the Isles of Sunda; with its Straits, and The Adjacent Seas. London: Laurie & Whittle, 1799.
Engraved hand-coloured sea chart (602 x 888 mm.), with narrow margins. The chart covers the Java Sea, the islands of Java, Bali, Lombok, Bangka, and Billiton, also the proximate parts of Sumatra and Borneo, major topographical features in vertical cross-section, decorated compass rose, rhumblines, inset detail of the Osterley Shoals, text quoting from 'the New York Commercial Advertiser, June 15th 1799', and numerous pieces of coastline information. (Vertical and horizontal centre folds, broken and backed in places, slight surface dirt, lesser defects.)
Engraved hand-coloured sea chart (602 x 888 mm.), with narrow margins. The chart covers the Java Sea, the islands of Java, Bali, Lombok, Bangka, and Billiton, also the proximate parts of Sumatra and Borneo, major topographical features in vertical cross-section, decorated compass rose, rhumblines, inset detail of the Osterley Shoals, text quoting from 'the New York Commercial Advertiser, June 15th 1799', and numerous pieces of coastline information. (Vertical and horizontal centre folds, broken and backed in places, slight surface dirt, lesser defects.)