George Pollard, the Ill-Fated Captain of the Nantucket Whale Ships ‘Essex’ (Inspiration for Melville’s "Moby-Dick"), and 'Two Brothers', Memorialized on an 1829 French Map of the Pacific
"Carte De L'Oceanie. Contenant L'Australie, La Polynesie et Les Iles Asiatiques"
Pierre and Alexandre Lapie. Engraved map hand-colored in outline, Paris, 1829, indicating the reef to the northwest of Hawaii where the "Two Brothers" sank in 1823 (the Russian explorer and cartographer Adam Johann von Krusenstern was the first to include mention of Pollard's second, and career-ending, wreck, in his rare 1827 atlas of the Pacific, but this does not appear to have been generally adopted by any other cartographers apart from Lapie until the 1830s), with central fold as issued; two small foxing marks lower- and upper-right and some very slight foxing, and some slight surface dirt, towards the margin edges, but otherwise in very good condition
Image (neatline) 15 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches
Sheet 20 x 25 3/4 inches
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