FRENCH MARITIME ATLAS (1 resultados)

Folio (25 x 20 inches). Letterpress title-page, 5 pages of preliminaries in French. One double-page and folding chart (of the north coast of Africa), 22 double page charts, and 11 full-page charts, all with EXCEPTIONALLY FINE HAND-COLOURING IN FULL (one or two creases, one or two minor and discreet repairs to verso, two maps a bit browned). Modern fine red morocco, gilt, antique by Trevor Lloyd. Provenance: with the purple ink library stamp of the Bibliotheek Inst. St. Louis. Oudenbosch at the foot of the title-page. The full title: "Suite du Neptune Francois, ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines. Levees par ordre expres des Roys de Portugal. Sous qui on a fait la Decouverte de l'Afrique &c. Et donnees au Public par les soins de Feu Monsieur de D'Ablancourt. Dans lequel on voit la description exacte de toutes les Cotes du Monde, du Detroit de Gibraltar, de la Mer Oceane Meridionale ou Ethiopiene, de la Mer des Indes, Orientales, & Occidentales &c. Ou sont exactement marquees les routes qu'il faut tenir, les Bancs de sables, Rochers & Basses d'eau; & generalement tout ce qui concerne la Navigation. Le tout fait sur les Observations et l'experience des plus habiles Ingenieurs et Pilotes. First edition of the third part of Mortier's pirated edition of Jaillot's "Neptune Francois" containing charts of outer-European waters prepared for King Pedro II of Portugal who was at that time supporting France and Spain in the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714). These spectacularly beautiful maps include a magnificent world map "Carte Generale de Toutes les Costes du Monde et les Pays Nouvellement Decouvert"; fifteen maps of the coast of Africa, including a superb double-page and folding map of the north coast and the Mediterranean with three insets of the Strait of Gibralta, Algiers and Triplo; two maps of the Red Sea; two maps of the East Indies and one of the Pacific showing the northern coastline of Australia, with an inset of the southern coast; and the following maps of the Americas: "Le Golfe de Mexique, et les Isles Voisine"; Carte de la Mer Meridional Contenant une partie des Costes de L'Afrique et de L'Amerique Meridionale et les Isles qui les Environs Dresse sue les Relations les plus Nouvelles"; "Carte Nouvelle de L'Amerique Angloise Contenant La Virginie, Mary-Land, Caroline, Pensilvania Nouvelle Iorck, N. Iarsey N: France, et Les Terres Nouvellement Decouverte"; "Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie, la Nouvelle Jersey"; "Carte Particuliere de Isthmus, ou Daien, qui comprend le Golfe Panama &c, Cartegena,et les Isles Aux Environs"; "Carte General de la Caroline"; "Carte Particuliere de la Caroline"; "Mer du Sud ou Pacifique, Contenant l'Isle de Californe, les Costes de Mexique, du Perou, Chili et le Destroit de Magellanique"; "Carte Particuliere de L'Amerique Septentrionale, ou sont comris le Detroit de Davids, le Droit de Hudseon"; and "Le Canada ou Partie dela Nouvelle France, Contenant la Terre de Labrador la Nouvelle France, Les Isles de Terre Nuevre, de Nostre Dame". "The Neptune Franois. was the most expensive sea-atlas ever published in Amsterdam in the 17th century. Its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. In 1700, Mortier brought out a third volume with charts of the outer-European waters. Suite du Neptune Francois. Apart from the first volume which had a second edition in 1703, none of the atlases was republished. This magnificent work was intended more as a show-piece than something to be used by the pilots at sea" (Koeman). Koeman IV, 7. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.