Hacke, William

William Hacke was a map-maker living at the sign of Great Britain and Ireland, near the New Stairs at Wapping. He was responsible for a Collection of Original Voyages published in 1699, which included an account of the adventures of Captain Bartholomew Sharpe in South America. It was from Captain Sharpe that Hacke obtained the necessary information for the construction of this atlas, and a copy of it, inferior in its graphical depiction of the coasts and lacking some of the aids to navigation and other matter, but slightly more ornate in its decorative finish, was presented by Sharpe to Charles II. and is now in the British Museum (Sloane MS. 44).

From the description of Buccaneer's Atlas [microform], circa 1684. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 21929002

From the description of Buccaneer's Atlas, circa 1684. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 756871749