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C1767
The straits of Banca according to the best memoirs & extracts from journals
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Very rare c.18th chart of the Bangka Island and part of Sumatra by William Herbert from the rarest of all the English Pilot Books to the orient. The chart includes inset at top left: Views of part of coasts: A … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The straits of Banca according to the best memoirs & extracts from journals
Date:
C1767
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Left hand margin expertly restored and otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
446mm
x 579mm
Paper Size:
485mm
x 632mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1767
Description:
Very rare c.18th chart of the Bangka Island and part of Sumatra by William Herbert from the rarest of all the English Pilot Books to the orient.
The chart includes inset at top left: Views of part of coasts: A view of Monopin Hill A view of Po. Taya.
Herbert travelled to India c.1748, as a purser’s clerk aboard an East Indiaman by the early 1750’s he had established himself as a printer and seller of engravings, prints and charts on London Bridge.
From: Herbert, William, A New Directory for the East Indies, with general and particular charts for the navigation of those seas: wherein the French Neptune Oriental has been chiefly consider’d and examined: with additions, corrections, and explanatory notes … London
William Herbert (1718 - 1795)
English cartofgrapher, bibliographer, bookseller, printseller, and chart engraver, best known for his monumental revision of Joseph Ames’s Typographical Antiquities. Born on 29 November 1718 near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, he was apprenticed to a hosier in London and later opened a hosiery business in Leadenhall Street after taking up the Freedom of the City. Dissatisfied with trade alone, he briefly learned glass painting before entering the service of the East India Company around 1748 as a purser’s clerk, sailing on several voyages and surviving a naval encounter with French ships off the Malabar Coast; during his time in India he travelled extensively overland and later produced detailed plans of East India Company settlements, for which he was rewarded by the Company on his return to England. Establishing himself in London as a chart engraver, bookseller, and printseller, with premises at London Bridge, Leadenhall Street, and Whitechapel, Herbert published nautical and geographical works, including A New Directory for the East Indies (first issued in 1758), and issued catalogues of books, maps, and charts. His enduring scholarly reputation rests on his acquisition of Ames’s annotated materials and plates and his subsequent expansion of Typographical Antiquities, a labour of more than twenty years that culminated in the publication of three greatly enlarged volumes between 1785 and 1790, forming a foundational reference for the history of printing in Great Britain and Ireland. Married three times and financially secure in later life, Herbert retired to Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, where he built a notable private library and devoted himself to bibliographical study; described by contemporaries as diligent, modest, and reserved, he died childless on 18 March 1795 and was buried at Cheshunt, leaving a legacy that continues to be valued by historians, collectors, and scholars of early printed books.
