Carte De La Mer Mediterranee en Douze Fueilles. Dediee a Mgr. Le Duc De Choiseul Colonel General des Suisses et Grisons Ministre de la Guerre et de la Marine

Roux, Joseph

Editore: Marseille, Marseille, 1764

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Tall folio (62x33 cm.) in original full tooled leather. Binding is worn and rubbed, with two areas (14x5 cm and 5x3 cm) where the leather has torn away at the outside edge. 12 sheets, uncolored as issued, which, if they were to be joined, would comprise a large chart of the Mediterranean Sea. The maps are crisp, with strong impressions. Good to very good condition with light water stains at the bottom corners of some of the maps. This copy has no markings to indicate provenance. The coastal charts, typical of 18th century cartographer with a somewhat similar appearance to the English charts of Grenville Collins and Mount & Page, show depths, ports, fortifications and towns of the entire Mediterranean coast: from Cadiz and the Strait of Gibraltar to the Levantine coast with all islands and coastlines in between, including Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia, Malta, the Adriatic, Cyprus, Greece, Algeria, Egypt and the African coast. Roux's charts were the best of the age of this area. They were in use 40 years later by both the British (Nelson on HMS Victory) and American (War with Tripoli) navies. Blackmer 1455; NMM 3: 267; Phillips 195; Shirley, BL, M.Roux 2-a; Tooley 550. Codice articolo a00144

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Titolo: Carte De La Mer Mediterranee en Douze ...

Casa editrice: Marseille, Marseille

Data di pubblicazione: 1764

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