2572 DesBarres, J.F.W. : Port Mills.......and Gambier Harbour. 1779

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DesBarres, J.F.W.
1779

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DesBarres, J.F.W.
1779
copperplate engraving
71 x 205 cm
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Port Mills, Port Mansfield and Gambier Harbor. Joseph Fredrick Wallet Des Barres (1729-1827) was a cartographer, hydrographer and military engineer from Switzerland. He became the colonial administrator in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His most famous publication was 'The Atlantic Neptune' a four volume atlas which was published between 1775-1781. He served in a British regiment during the Seven Years Ear (1756-63) and after the conflict carried out a number of martine surveys for the British government. Des Barres’s systematic surveying was first of the region and would become of immense importance to the British in the American War of Independence (1775 -1783). Under some pressure to produce maps quickly, some errors would appear in his artistic charts. Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmaker, Early World Press, 2004, p360


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DesBarres, J.F.W.
1779
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71 x 205 cm
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