Carte Particuliere des costes de Flandres de Picardie et de Normandie depuis Nieuport jusqu’a Dieppe avec les Costes d’Angleterre

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Cartographer:
JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert
Title:
Carte Particuliere des costes de Flandres de Picardie et de Normandie depuis Nieuport jusqu’a Dieppe avec les Costes d’Angleterre
Stock Code:
593
Method:
Copper engraving
Colouring:
Original colour
Atlas:
Neptune Francois
Size: (W x H):
78cm x 59cm
 
30½ inches x 23 inches
Date:
1693
Price:
£300

A double folio sea chart of the English Channel, with depth soundings, sand banks and rhumb lines, 32 point gold highlighted compass at sea. The atlas from which this chart came, The Neptune Francois was ‘a seminal work in the development of sea atlases.’ (ref: British Library Catalogue.) Mortier published a counterfeit version in Amsterdam

Very good condition. There is some cracking of the paper along the coastline where the green paint has oxidised

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