Charting the Course for Queen Victoria’s Royal Yacht
Charting the Course for Queen Victoria’s Royal Yacht
By THE ADMIRALTY, 1880
A chart case from the Her Majesty’s Yacht Victoria and Albert (II), containing 284 charts, covering the entire globe, and demonstrating The British Admiralty’s mastery of the seas at the height of the British Empire.
The chart case contains 10 pilots providing detailed charts for navigation from the British Isles to: Africa and the Cape of Good Hope; North America and the West Indies; Australia; China; The East Indies; The Pacific; The English Channel and Ireland; The Mediterranean; The English Channel, North Sea and Baltic; and The South East Coast of South America. Ranging from 30 charts contained in the China pilot to a mere 14 charts in the Africa pilot.
Price: £150,000
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Author: THE ADMIRALTY
Publication place: London
Publisher: The Admiralty
Publication date: 1880–1900
Physical description: Glass fronted chart case (965 by 665 by 810mm, (1370mm when extended)), with drop leaf table extensions, consisting of eleven shelves, ten of which are lettered from top to bottom, ‘Cape and Africa’, ‘N. American and West Indies’, ‘Australia’, ‘China’, ‘East Indies’, ‘Pacific’, ‘Channel and Western Station’, ‘Mediterranean’, ‘Channel, North Sea & Baltic’, ‘S.E. Coast of America’; the furniture housing 10 pilots, a meterological atlas of the Red Sea, and an atlas of global barometric pressure, each pilot with manuscript contents sheet, both atlases with printed title and preliminaries, the 12 works containing a total of 284 maps and charts (chart of the Sunda Strait lacking to China pilot, five charts loosely inserted in the Mediterranean pilot, one loosely inserted into the India pilot, loose chart of the coal and telegraph lines for 1899) all works bound in blue buckram covers, lettered in gilt to upper cover.
Inventory reference: 15338