Thomas Jefferys | The North-American Pilot, London, 1775

The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan

Thomas Jefferys

The North American Pilot for Newfoundland, Labradore, the Gulf and River St. Laurence, London: Printed and sold by by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1775

FIRST EDITION, folio (552 x 400 mm.), 22 engraved charts (6 folding, 9 double page), contemporary half calf over marbled boards, chart XVI worn and creased with minor closed marginal tears at edges, occasional small closed tears at edges and folds, binding worn, upper cover detached

Using the surveys of Captain James Cook and others, Jefferys began this highly important atlas of sea-charts of America in 1768. 

LITERATURE:

cf. Sabin 5557; cf. Phillips 1209 (1777 ed.)