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Description

First state of Seller & Price chart of the Atlantic, illustrating the Triangle Trade, originally engraved by Herman Moll.

A chart of the North Atlantic, showing from the British Isles top right, south to Elmina region in Ghana (F. Del Mine), across the Atlantic to Salvador in Brazil and north to Hudson's Bay and Labrador.

The chart depicts the region covered by the famous trade triangle of the British slavers, who took British-manufactured goods including rum and textiles to Africa, bartered them for slaves to transport to the Americas, where they exchanged them for the sugar, cotton and tobacco that they supplied to the factories of Britain.

The map is based on the work of Edward Wright (c.1561-1615), the English mathematician who corrected Mercator's Projection and wrote the first practical guide to its use on sea charts. These advances allowed British traders to be more efficient on their voyages. Part of this guide is reproduced in a text box on the right of this chart.

This chart would be re-issued by Seller, and later Mount & Page, for over 70 years.

Charles Price Biography

Charles Price (1679?-1733) was an engraver, instrument maker, and mapseller.

Price had been apprenticed to John Seller, famous mapmaker and father to Charles’ business partner, Jeremiah. In fact, Jeremiah and Charles were made free of the Merchant Taylors Guild on the same day, September 1, 1703. The two were already working together by then.

After breaking off with Seller, Price worked with John Senex (1705-10) and George Wildey (1710-13). He was still working in the 1720s, but was in Fleet Prison in 1731 for debt and died two years later.

Jeremiah Seller Biography

Jeremiah Seller (1671-?) was the second son of prominent London mapmaker John Seller. He inherited two-thirds of the business upon his father’s death in 1697. From 1700-5 Seller worked in partnership with Charles Price. In 1705, Jeremiah lost the family contract to supply instruments to the Royal Navy, which led to the dissolution of his partnership with Price. Seller left the map trade in that year, passing his stock to Richard Mount and Thomas Page.