Book A: Survey

United Kingdom: England, southeast coast: Kent, Essex and Suffolk: Broadstairs and North Foreland to Orford Ness, including Inner Gabbard, Outer Gabbard and Galloper Sand. '[A] Survey of the Entrances or Channels into the River Thames’. Chart shows coastline, hydrography anchorages, buoys, preferred navigable channels, topography, vegetation, settlements, buildings, fortifications (including Languard Fort), military installations, land marks (horizontal mill at Margate no longer shown), sight lines, remarks and explanatory key (to buoys). Printed. Watermark: 'Edmonds Wycombe' (no date) [obscured by linen backing]. Latitude and longitude indicated; north point with compass indicator and magnetic north variation; no scale shown. Surveyed 'by [Murdoch] Mackenzie [junior], [Graeme] Spence and [George] Thomas' and 'with the Gabbards, Surveyed in 1824 by Lieut [Lieutenant] [William] Hewett and Mr [George] Thomas RN [Royal Navy]'; published according to Act of Parliament by Captian Thomas Hurd, Hydrographer to the Admiralty, Hydrographical Office, 7 March 1812, addititions to 1824; sold by R B Bate, 21 Poultry for the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty by their appointment. Annotated with pasted white label: 'Catalogue No. [Number] 4171 (i) Date 1824.'; (in red ink): 'Light R'. Endorsed (in blue crayon): 'Original'