Book A: Survey

United Kingdom: England, south coast. 'An Actual Survey of the Coast from Arundel Haven [Arundel] in Sussex to St Aldans [St Aldhelm's Head] in Dorsetshire: Including chiefly the Isle of Wight, Spithead, Portsmouth Harbr [Harbour]...'. Survey; scale: 5.2 inches to 8 miles with one inset: 1) 'The Passage by the West end of the Isle of Wight with the Light-Houses on the Needles Point and Hurst Beach from the Plan Published by Order of the Corporation of Trinity House'; scale: 1.9 inches to 2 miles, with three views: 1) Hurst Light for the Needles Channel'; 2) 'The Needle Rocks'; 3) 'The Vanes of the Mill over Warden Cliff'. Survey and inset show coastline, hydrography, anchorages, buoys, wreck sites (Royal George, 'where the Halswell Indiaman and Captain [Richard] Pierce was lost on 6 January 1786'), topography, vegetation, land use (salt mills, brick kiln, chalk pit and quarries), farms, roads, settlements, buildings (Goodwood), fortifications (including Corfe Castle, Sandown Castle, Carisbrook Castle, South Sea Castle, Hurst Castle (in inset), Calshot Castle and Branksea Castle), military installations, land marks, sight lines and remarks (including sailing directions, flow of tides and bouys going into Spithead, dated 1790). Ornate cartouche with anchor motif. Printed. Watermark: crest (no date). Latitude and longitude indicated; north point with compass indicator and magnetic north variation indicated (1788). 'Surveyed by Order of the Government, and Dedicated to the Right Honble [Honourable] the Lords of the Admiralty by Jos [Joseph] Avery; Revised in 1794 by George Burn a Master in the Royal Navy'; published by Laurie and Whittle, No 53 Fleet Street, London, 12 May 1794. Annotated (in brown and red ink): with explanatory key