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| 5238 |  | Details | London Magazine | 1752 |
| Antique engraved plate of the Solar System and comets |
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London Magazine |
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| 1752 |
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| $150.00 | London-Magazine | Antique-engraved-plate-of-the-Solar-System-and-comets | Original antique copper-plate engraved view titled: "The solar system with the orbits of 5 remarkable comets." The print explains the drawing:
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"The orbits of the Planets are drawn according to their mean distance from the Sun; and the Planets themselves in the proportions they bear to each other."
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Illustrates the Copernican heliocentric theory of the solar system. Interesting representation of five periodic appearances of comets with their periodicity and generalized orbits.
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Published in the February, 1752 issue of London Magazine to illustrate an article: "The Solar System according to Copernicus." |
| 1111 |  | Details | London Magazine | 1761 |
| A New Map of Louisiana and the River Mississipi from the Sea to Bayagoulas |
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London Magazine |
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| 1761 |
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| $0.00 | London-Magazine | A-New-Map-of-Louisiana-and-the-River-Mississipi--from-the-Sea-to-Bayagoulas | SOLD<br></br>Detailed antique map of the Mississippi River Delta taken from Thomas Jefferys' larger three-part map of the vicinity of New Orleans. Captures a point in time before subsidence and the rising sea level caused the loss of many hundred thousand acres of Louisiana land to the sea.
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Bayou Lafourche is named "Cheimachas River" ; in contemporaneous French documents the waterway, once a distributary stream of the Mississippi River, was called "Bayou Lafourche des Chitimachas" after the Chitimacha Indians who inhabited land near present day Donaldsonville. The map shows the course of the Mississippi from Bayagoulas near the present-day town of Bayou Goula in Iberville Parish, Louisiana to Fort la Balise, which defended the entrance and channel of the river.
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Contains very intersting notations including "Forest of Holms Fit for Ship Building" ("holm" refers to evergreen oak trees- probably the southern live oak ) and "Tchaouachas where Marshall de Bellisle had his grant". The latter notation near upper Plaquemine Parish refers to François Simars de Bellisle, first an officer of the French West Indies Company who wandered south-east Texas and Louisiana as a indian captive and slave from 1719 - 1721. In 1753 de Bellisle became a member of the Superior Council of Louisiana and served as town commander of New Orleans.
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An important feature of this map is the depiction of the ruins of Fort La Boulaye the First Settlement made in 1700. This fort, located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River about fifty miles from the Gulf of Mexico, was established by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1700 and was abandoned about seven years later. In 1933 the remains of Fort La Boulaye were discovered near present-day Phoenix, Louisiana, in Plaquemines Parish. |
| 5377 |  | Details | London Magazine | 1762 |
| Antique engraved Plan of the Straights of Bahama |
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London Magazine |
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| 1762 |
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| $325.00 | London-Magazine | Antique-engraved-Plan-of-the-Straights-of-Bahama | Original antique engraved map of the route taken by the British Fleet during their attack on the city of Havana, Cuba in 1762.
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The map depicts the fleet's passage through the Old Bahamas Channel, a risky route just north of Cuba, through a channel only 10 miles wide at some points. The route taken by the British reduced the amount of warning time afforded to the Spanish Fleet.
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Conducted during the Seven Years' War, the Siege of Havana was a successful British siege against Spanish-ruled Havana that lasted from March to August 1762.
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"A Plan of the Straights of Bahama, through which the Expedition Fleet was Conducted in the Year 1762 against the Havana". Engraved for the London Magazine. Published from London by Baldwin in January 1763. |