A Draught of the Streights of Gibraltar. With Some Observations upon the Currents Thereunto Belonging, by Captain Richard Bolland. by BOLLAND, Richard - 1745

London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1745. Folio measuring approximately 8 x 12 inches. Two fold-out copper engravings, one which is a map, accompanied by 3 pages of text, numbered from 782 to 784. This account is in itself complete. It comes from the first edition of Churchill's four-volume work which contained numerous travel narratives, and was titled "A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts. Others Translated out of Foreign Languages, and Now First Published in English." These are the original pages from the original volume printed in 1745, clean, bright, in very good condition. Attractively bound in recent green cardstock covers with label. A brief description and remarkable early folding map of the Strait of Gibraltar, by maritime surveyor Captain Richard Bolland, observed in 1675. Engravings illustrate a sounding boat employed to ascertain currents, and a map of the Straights of Gibraltar with a table of tides. .