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C1820
(1828)
To the Officers in the Honourable East India Company’s Service This Outline Chart intended for their use to prick off a Ship’s Track…A new edition 1820 revised & corrected by J.W. Norie with additions to 1827 & 8.
Mapmaker:
William Heather (1793-1812) & John William Norie (1772 - 1843)
Very rare, early issue of this blue backed sea chart on two sheets, published for the use of East India Company ships sailing to the East. Heather’s chart was innovative for its time, as it reduced the scale to two … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
To the Officers in the Honourable East India Company’s Service This Outline Chart intended for their use to prick off a Ship’s Track…A new edition 1820 revised & corrected by J.W. Norie with additions to 1827 & 8.
Date:
C1820
(1828)
Mapmaker:
William Heather (1793-1812) & John William Norie (1772 - 1843)
Condition:
A few minor tears at sheet edges, minor soiling at top corners, repaired small hole lower sheet edge otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
1195mm
x 645mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1828
Description:
Very rare, early issue of this blue backed sea chart on two sheets, published for the use of East India Company ships sailing to the East.
Heather’s chart was innovative for its time, as it reduced the scale to two sheets from the standard multiple sheet charts in use on East Indiamen. The chart was issued with a suggested set pricked course from Portsmouth via the Cape and to Fort William (Calcutta) India. It proved to be a popular item in the ‘East India Pilot’ for nearly fifty years.
Australia is shown with the discoveries made by Flinders, but excludes any of the French place names given by the Baudin expedition. Norie only uses English nomenclature on the chart, including the use of Flinders’s naming of the continent, Australia. Governor Macquarie later gave currency for the use of the name. The western portion of the continent is named New Holland and was unclaimed by the British at the time.
Norie has added two notes: ‘Black Whales resort to the Eastern coast of Australia at all seasons of the year, and in winter Spermaccti Whales frequent the north eastern parts.’ and ‘A British settlement is now established at Melville Island and also at Port Raffles.’ Fort Dundas, on Melville Island, was started 30 September 1824, by Captain James Bremer who arrived on the Tamar. The British abandoned the settlement by early 1829.
A course pricked via the Western Isles, Cape Town, Madras and terminating at Calcutta, has been added in ink.
From Norie’s The complete East India pilot, from London to any part of the Red Sea.
References; Fisher p.82-87, Prescott p.201, 1827.04, Tooley 925.
Mapmaker:
John William Norie (1772-1843)
Norie was a mathematician, hydrographer, chart maker and publisher of nautical books most famous for his Epitome of Practical Navigation (1805) which became a standard work on navigation and went through many editions as did many of Norie’s works. He had begun his career working with William Heather, who had in 1765 taken over chart publishers Mount and Page and who ran the Naval Academy and Naval Warehouse in Leadenhall Street from 1795; the Naval Warehouse provided navigational instruments, charts, and books on navigation. Norie took over the Naval Warehouse after Heather’s retirement and founded the company J.W. Norie and Company in 1813. After Norie’s death the company became Norie and Wilson.
