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Title:
Buccaneer's Atlas, circa 1684Sharp's South Sea Waggoner
Creator/Contributor:
Hacke, William., creatorAbstract:
The atlas also known as "The Great South Sea of America," contains a description of the Sea Coasts in the South sea of America
from the port of Alcapulco to the Le Maire straits, it being here following described at large in 130 particular draughts,
showing all the Ports harbours Anchoring Islands sands rock and dangers. The 130 charts are of a pictorial nature; the coast-line
is laid down as in a plane map, but back from the water's edge the country is rendered as seen from the sea. The mountains
and hills are given in their natural colors; towns, churches, bridges, and even isolated houses, with all other landmarks
of use to navigators, have been inserted by the map-maker, and voluminous directions are given for the entering of harbors,
the avoidances of shoals and rocks, distances, together with notices of where ships were wrecked, where Sawkins (one of Sharpe's
colleagues) was killed, etc
Date:
1684 (issued)Subject:
p------Buccaneers -- Early works to 1800
Maps -- Early works to 1800
Voyages and travels -- Maps
Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800
Early maps
Boucaniers -- Ouvrages avant 1800
Cartes anciennes
Voyages autour du monde -- Ouvrages avant 1800
Buccaneers
Discoveries in geography
Maps
Voyages and travels
Voyages around the world
Acapulco (Mexico) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Le Maire Strait (Argentina) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Pacific Coast (America) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Pacific Coast (South America) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
South America -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps
America -- Pacific Coast
Atlantic Ocean -- Le Maire Strait
Atlantic Ocean -- Strait of Magellan
Mexico -- Acapulco
South America
South America -- Pacific Coast
Hacke, William
Hacke, William
Note:
Guide to the American Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, Calif. : H.E. Huntington Library and Art
Gallery, 1979).
FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited. Direct requests for copies and requests for permission to publish to The
Huntington Library.
William Hacke was a map-maker living at the sign of Great Britain and Ireland, near the New Stairs at Wapping. He was responsible
for a Collection of Original Voyages published in 1699, which included an account of the adventures of Captain Bartholomew
Sharpe in South America. It was from Captain Sharpe that Hacke obtained the necessary information for the construction of
this atlas, and a copy of it, inferior in its graphical depiction of the coasts and lacking some of the aids to navigation
and other matter, but slightly more ornate in its decorative finish, was presented by Sharpe to Charles II. and is now in
the British Museum (Sloane MS. 44).
Original in: The Huntington Library (HM 265).
In English.
Preferred citation: Hacke, William. Buccaneer's Atlas, BANC MSS 67/147 m FILM, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
manuscript maps.Manuscript maps
Early works
Maps
Manuscript maps.
Cartes manuscrites.
Physical Description:
microfilm
1 microfilm reel : negative and positive
Paper copy from microfilm: 1 volume
Language:
English
Origin:
United StatesCopyright Note:
FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited. Direct requests for copies and requests for permission to publish to The
Huntington Library.