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AMERICAS AND PACIFIC]. Hydrographic Office. Set of 11 (of 12) Pacific Ocean Admiralty Charts. London, 1856-57. Covering the Pacific coast line of the Americas the Pacific Ocean, image 792 x 648 mm (872 x 668 mm sheet) comprising
AMERICAS AND PACIFIC]. Hydrographic Office. Set of 11 (of 12) Pacific Ocean Admiralty Charts. London, 1856-57. Covering the Pacific coast line of the Americas the Pacific Ocean, image 792 x 648 mm (872 x 668 mm sheet) comprising: Sheet 1 Kamchatka to Chusan Islands. -- Sheet 2 Behring Strait to 30 o N. Lat. -- Sheet 3 Cook River to Gulf of California. -- (sheet 4, inland North America and part of the Arctic Coast, lacking) Sheet 5 Chusan Islands to Shark Bay, Western Australia. -- Sheet 6 Sandwich Islands to New Caledonia. -- Sheet 7 Gulf of California to Low Archipelago. -- Sheet 8 Mexico to Bolivia. -- Sheet 9 Western Australia to Tasmania. -- Sheet 10 Norfolk 1 D to 65 o S. including New Zealand. -- Sheet 11 Lat 27 o S. to 65 o - Long. 106 o W. to 154 o W. -- Sheet 12 Chile, Patagonia and South Shetland. -- [ With :] EVANS, Frederick John (1815-1885). Chart of the Curves of equal Magnetic Variation, 1858. London: Published at the Admiralty, 1859. -- and 5 other charts of Pacific Islands. The British Hydrographic Office was founded in 1795 by George III, who appointed Alexander Dalrymple to be the first Hydrographer to the Admiralty. The British Hydrographic Office has been charting the world's oceans with the primary aim of providing detailed navigational charts for the Royal Navy and merchant mariners. Complete sets of charts from British the Hydrographic Office are very rare. (17)