Carte Reduite du Golphe de Gascogne pour servir aux Vaisseaux du Roi ...
DÉPÔT DES CARTES ET PLANS DE LA MARINE (1750)
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Copperplate engraving, 590 x 835 mm. Paper lightly browned. One short printers crease. Paris : Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine,
From a late issue of the First Edition of the Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine's Le Neptune François ou recueil des cartes marines levées et gravées par ordre duy Roy ..., edited by Charles Pene and others.
This chart was drawn by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, later to become the head of the French Navy's hydrographic office; it depicts the coast from Ushant to Cape Finisterre.
Stock Code: 226181
