L.S. de La Rochette
Autor(a) de a CHART of the ANTILLES,or,CHARIBBEE,or,CARIBS ISLANDS,with THE VIRGIN ISLES.
Obras por L.S. de La Rochette
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Geographic coverage: -70.000000, 20.000045 ; West Indies
Type: StillImage | Map | Subject: Caribbean, West Indies, Map, Rochette | Caribbean area –- Social life and customs -- History | 972 | Relation: Caribbean Views. Collect Britain
Description: This chart by cartographer L. S. de la Rochette (1731 ? 1802) was engraved by William Palmer and published by 'geographer to the King' William Faden in 1784. There is a compass rose at the centre of a network of rhumb lines (for sailing directions) and a smaller scale map of the region is inset at top right showing distances between the islands, sailing routes and a table recording latitude and longitude of each island. Down the right side of the map are represented the profiles of the headlands of the different islands- this is as they would appear to sailors from the sea.… (mais)