| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 5466 |  | Details | Reiner, Ignatius | 1824 |
| Rare chart of the Strait of Gibraltar by Reiner with tides and currents |
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Reiner, Ignatius |
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| 1824 |
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| $3,000.00 | Reiner--Ignatius | Rare-chart-of-the-Strait-of-Gibraltar-by-Reiner-with-tides-and-currents | A very rare chart by Ignatius Reiner, a chart of the Strait of Gibraltar published by Reiner and by John Purdy in 1824. Rare, the only recorded holding of the chart is at the British Library, London and no sales of any printed chart by Ignatius Reiner are recorded in the AMPR. With a small inset chart of the Bay of Tangier.
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Reiner describes himself as "Pilot of the Schooner Pacifico, charged with the correspondence between Gibraltar and Barbary, in the years 1818, 19, 20, &c."
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Upper left and right with tide tables for the European coast and the African coast respectively.
Engraved by Alex Findlay, Pentonville, London. Attribution at bottom reads:<div class="indenttextblocksingle"> "Published by the author Ignatius Reiner, at Gibraltar; and for him by John Purdy, Took's Court, London. 1st Dec. 1824."</div><br>
Well-executed mid 20th-century conservation with the chart laid to fresh linen and protected via a thin-film lamination process to both recto and verso. |