Jun 07, 2017 - Sale 2450

Sale 2450 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ARROWSMITH, AARON; and ARROWSMITH, SAMUEL. Chart of the Sandwich Islands. Compiled from various documents, M.S. and printed. Large engraved chart of the Hawaiian Islands on heavy wove paper trimmed with linen selvage. 26 1/4x34 1/4 inches sheet size; minor staining. Contemporary owner's ink inscription on verso: "Francis Post, June 1832." London: A. & S. Arrowsmith, 2nd March, 1830
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A very rare, impressively beautiful chart of Hawaii by Arrowsmith. As was his gift, here he advances the accuracy of former mapping of the islands based on explorers such as Cook and Vancouver. OCLC locates one copy of an 1826 edition. Not in Fitzpatrick.

Francis Post was a nineteenth century whaling captain out of New Bedford, Mass. While piloting his vessel, the Huntress, on her 1832-1836 voyage through the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the captain is known to have been in the Hawaiian Islands. While the overall condition of the chart does not immediately suggest it was actually used aboard the Huntress, Post's inscription of June 1832, two months prior to their departure in August 1832, lends some reasoning to consider the captain acquired this most accurate chart to prepare for, and consult during the voyage.