Scilly/Sylley Islands their distances & flats—Mynde—map+article—Rex Cowan 1754
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'Sylley Islands their Distances & Flats'
An attractive Royal Society map of the Isles of Scilly, engraved for William Borlase’s discussion of the archipelago’s changing island geography, included here with Borlase’s text, with exceptional provenance from the estate of reknown shipwreck hunter Rex Cowan. Preserving the eighteenth-century spelling “Sylley,” it maps the islands, distances, flats, rocks and channels. Scilly was central to Cowan’s life and work: he kept a holiday home there and discovered and salvaged the VOC treasure wrecks Hollandia, lost on Gunner Rock near Annet in 1743, and Prinses Maria, lost near Silver Carn/Rosevear in 1686. Published only a decade after Hollandia’s loss, the map may have helped Cowan compare early wreck accounts with Scilly’s treacherous and changing maritime topography—the very seascape that launched his shipwreck archaelogy career.
Size 16 x 17 cm | 6.5 x 6.5 inches
Date Published: 1754
Type: Antique uncoloured copper-engraved map
Author: Mynde, James
Publication: Philosophical Transactions
Condition: Good |
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