Original Antique Map 1788 Nootka Island Vancouver British Columbia William Bligh

Description

Title
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Plan de l'entree de Nootka
Details:
It was the British explorer Meares who in 1788 founded the trading post on the Nootka Strait that triggered the crisis between Britain and Spain regarding Spain's alleged exclusive right to the entire west coast of North America. In 1794, the third Nootka Convention was signed, which resolved the dispute and opened the coast between Oregon and British Columbia to the British.
Dimensions
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31 cm x 26cm. ( 11 1/2" x 10" Inches )
Condition
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Beautiful Original Map NOT a reproduction some wear some stains please at detailed pictures for condition report
Date
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1788
Cartographer/Mapmaker:
William Bligh (1754-1817) Bligh was a naval officer and governor. He was descended from a family settled in St Tudy, Cornwall, since 1680, whose members had been mayors of Bodmin in the sixteenth century. William was entered in H.M.S. Monmouth on July 1762, was paid off the following February, and joined the navy on 27 July 1770. Since there was no vacancy for midshipmen, he was rated ‘able-seaman’, but he messed with the former and officially became one in February 1771. On 17 March 1776 he was appointed master of the Resolution
, on James Cook’s third voyage. On the voyage made a number of the charts.
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