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Touchton Map Library
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Accession Number:
L2011.070.169
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M Number:
M1510
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Short Title:
Nueva Carta Del Canal de Bahama que comprehende tambien los de providencia y santaren con los bajos, islas y sondas al este y al oeste de la peninsula de la Florida construida en la Direccion Hidrografica por disposicion del Exmo Sor. Principe de la Paz Generalisimo de las Armas de mar y tierra. Ano 1805.
short_title
Nueva Carta Del Canal de Bahama que comprehende tambien los de providencia y santaren con los bajos, islas y sondas al este y al oeste de la peninsula de la Florida construida en la Direccion Hidrografica por disposicion del Exmo Sor. Principe de la Paz Generalisimo de las Armas de mar y tierra. Ano 1805.
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Year:
1805
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1805
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Place of Publication:
Madrid
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Madrid
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Language:
Spanish
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Spanish
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Direction/Orientation :
north at the top
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north at the top
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Geographical Description:
Important early 19th Century Sea chart of Florida and the Bahamas, one of the earliest Spanish Sea Charts to focus on the coast of Florida and the Bahamas.
The map was published in 1805 and is almost certainly the first detailed map of the region published by the Spanish Hydrographical Office. The map is based largely upon the observations of Dionisio Galiano in the ship San Fulgencio (1799).
The present example of the map was created "por Disposicion Del Exmo. Sor. Principe De La Paz, Generalisimo de las Armas de Mar y Tierra." Principe, de La Paz (Prince of Peace), was a title in the Peerage of Spain, granted in 1795 by Charles IV to Manuel Godoy, his Secretary of State. The title is a reference to the Peace of Basel which Godoy successfully managed, putting an end to the War of the Pyrenees in July 1795. He was also given the title of Generalissimo of the Army of Land and Sea of Spain in 104. The title was very quickly revoked by Ferdinand VII, upon his taking the thrown after the death of his father in March 1808. In 1804, Godoy was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Spanish agency, the Dirección de Hidrografía, was set up in the late 18th century to disseminate accurate sailing information, about the same time as the British with their Hydrographic branch of the Royal Navy. The Spanish were of course the first major sponsors of discovery in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and mainland Florida. As far back as the beginning of the16th century they had started compiling cartographic information on these regions although the information was maintained as a national secret. Much of the British and French information was published privately.
The map was published in 1805 and is almost certainly the first detailed map of the region published by the Spanish Hydrographical Office. The map is based largely upon the observations of Dionisio Galiano in the ship San Fulgencio (1799).
The present example of the map was created "por Disposicion Del Exmo. Sor. Principe De La Paz, Generalisimo de las Armas de Mar y Tierra." Principe, de La Paz (Prince of Peace), was a title in the Peerage of Spain, granted in 1795 by Charles IV to Manuel Godoy, his Secretary of State. The title is a reference to the Peace of Basel which Godoy successfully managed, putting an end to the War of the Pyrenees in July 1795. He was also given the title of Generalissimo of the Army of Land and Sea of Spain in 104. The title was very quickly revoked by Ferdinand VII, upon his taking the thrown after the death of his father in March 1808. In 1804, Godoy was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Spanish agency, the Dirección de Hidrografía, was set up in the late 18th century to disseminate accurate sailing information, about the same time as the British with their Hydrographic branch of the Royal Navy. The Spanish were of course the first major sponsors of discovery in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and mainland Florida. As far back as the beginning of the16th century they had started compiling cartographic information on these regions although the information was maintained as a national secret. Much of the British and French information was published privately.
geographical_description
Important early 19th Century Sea chart of Florida and the Bahamas, one of the earliest Spanish Sea Charts to focus on the coast of Florida and the Bahamas.
The map was published in 1805 and is almost certainly the first detailed map of the region published by the Spanish Hydrographical Office. The map is based largely upon the observations of Dionisio Galiano in the ship San Fulgencio (1799).
The present example of the map was created "por Disposicion Del Exmo. Sor. Principe De La Paz, Generalisimo de las Armas de Mar y Tierra." Principe, de La Paz (Prince of Peace), was a title in the Peerage of Spain, granted in 1795 by Charles IV to Manuel Godoy, his Secretary of State. The title is a reference to the Peace of Basel which Godoy successfully managed, putting an end to the War of the Pyrenees in July 1795. He was also given the title of Generalissimo of the Army of Land and Sea of Spain in 104. The title was very quickly revoked by Ferdinand VII, upon his taking the thrown after the death of his father in March 1808. In 1804, Godoy was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Spanish agency, the Dirección de Hidrografía, was set up in the late 18th century to disseminate accurate sailing information, about the same time as the British with their Hydrographic branch of the Royal Navy. The Spanish were of course the first major sponsors of discovery in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and mainland Florida. As far back as the beginning of the16th century they had started compiling cartographic information on these regions although the information was maintained as a national secret. Much of the British and French information was published privately.
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Related Item(s):
L2018.018.002
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L2018.018.002
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