1887 Mediterranean [Sheets 1 – 4 joined]

This fascinating sea chart, an original ‘blue back’ by James Imray, was an important navigational tool for navigators in the 19th century. The chart is encyclopedic in scope and covers in detail the entire coastal area of the Mediterranean, from the Atlantic side of Gibraltar northward to include a bit of Portugal and southward to include the northwestern and northern coastlines of Morocco. From the western end it extends to the far eastern end of the sea. In the northeast it extends so far as to include both the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and their respective coastlines in full. This extraordinarily fascinating sea chart, an original ‘blue back’ by James Imray, was published by his sons, as they had carried on the family business following his death. By the time this chart was published, Imray’s firm had been providing reliable sea charts for decades. Though this map was published toward the end of the firm’s long rule of the industry, it obviously was still highly regarded and in