An accurate description of all the harbours ... in the South Sea of America : ms., [undated].

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An accurate description of all the harbours ... in the South Sea of America : ms., [undated].

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Copy of William Hacke's manuscript atlas of the "Great South Sea of America," based on the Spanish derrotero captured by Bartholomew Sharpe in 1680. This version created probably after 1698. An original manuscript of another version, dated 1692, can be found in the Bancroft Library as BANC MSS M-M 224. Microfilm of manuscript atlases of "The Great South Sea of America" (originals in the British Museum), 1682-1698, can be found in the Bancroft Library as BANC MSS 71/114 m.

Paper copies from microfilm : 1 portfolio.Microfilm : 1 reel : negative (BNEG 1462) and positive.

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John Carter Brown library

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John Carter Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, began to decisively collect books about America in 1848, although he had started collecting rare books, “the favorite pastime of wealthy noblemen” much earlier. An admirer of Old World traditions, Brown focused upon European voyages and travels, as well as books that provided a background for European expansion. Around 1846, he began an avid pursuit of Americana, an area of interest he termed “the Great Subject....

Sharpe, Bartholomew, active 1679-1682

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Hacke, William

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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 an...