VII. The Cartographic Works of John Cooke
NEW MAP 1A - Added 2023
1. Seven Sea Charts for David Steel
1A. Title: A Mercators
Chart from ENGLAND TO GREENLAND – DAVIS`S
STRAITS & HUDSON`S BAY Including all the Islands from Actual Surveys
Date: August 1st 1789.
Size: Approx. 660 x 1670 mm (border on 4 sides).
Imprint(s): Published London, D Steel, 1789, see below.
Signature(s): I Cooke Sculpt
Morgans [Buildings?] / New Road St. Georges.
Location(s): BNE.
Comments: Very large folding blue
back chart, in exactly the same style as the six charts of Ireland (see 1B below). The imprint is Printed for D
Steel, Bookseller, little Tower Hill, Augt 1st 1789,
as the Act directs. The signature, left and right of the imprint, is I
Cooke but obviously refers to John Cooke; the address here is difficult to
read and the word after Morgans has been transcribed as Bradlgs (Buildings?) at the National Library of Spain where the map is available on-line. The
address seems to carry on after the date and is New Road St. Georges.
This address is not listed on any other maps seen and is probably the New Road
in Whitechapel not far from St Georges Church and St Georges Gardens.
The chart covers a very wide
area as the title suggests with Hudson´s Bay being shown in the west and the whole
of the Baltic Sea in the east. There is an inset map of Spitzbergen and New
Greenland. All of Disko Island and part of James Island in the north are shown
and south as far as the northern tip of Newfoundland and the whole of the
British Isles with the British Channel. The right-hand third could have been sold separately: it has its own title
panel, A Chart from England to the North Cape and a second imprint reads
Pubd Feby 14th 1789 By D Steel Bookseller Tower
Hill.
New 1B.
1B. Title: A New Mercators Chart of the Coast of Ireland or A New Mercators Chart of the Irish Coast. Set of six charts covering the complete coast of Ireland.
Date: Four of the six charts are dated between January and July 1790.
Size: Six sheets made up of 2 half-sheets each approx. 760 x 655 mm (border on 4
sides).
Imprint(s): Published London, D Steel, 1790, see below.
Signature(s): J Cooke Sculpt Clare Court (or Ct) Drury Lane.
Location(s): BNE, P.[1]
1)
Kilmury Head to Drogheda (75 x 132 cm)
2)
Drogheda to the Skerries (77 x 133 cm)
3)
The Skerries to Balliconel ... June 1, 1790
4)
Balliconel to Slyne Head ... July 1st, 1790
5)
Sline Head to Kerry Head ... Janry 1st, 1790 (includes
plan of River Shannon)
6)
Kerry Head to Kilmury ... April 1st, 1790
[1] BNE: The complete series is held at the National Library of Spain and can be accessed by clicking the overview of David Steel charts in their collection here. The measurements are according to those on their web pages. The chart of England to Greenland is reference MR/4/1 SERIES 36/6. The set of six charts have references MR/5/1 SERIES/ #; # being numbers 7, 8, 19, 21, 27 and 28. P: Sold (lot 61) at Sotheby´s May 4th 2007 to Bernard Shapero, Rare Books. I am grateful to Susanne Fisher for contacting me with this information, and to Daniel Crouch and staff at Shapero Rare Books who kindly checked the charts and for providing illustrations. Photos of 3-6 by Lovie Fasciolo at Bernard Shapero, Rare Books.
[2] This indicates that this BL copy might even be a 3rd edition. BL copy is 10975.(36.)
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