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MICHELOT, Henri & BRÉMOND, Laurent
Recueil de Plusiereurs Plans des Ports et Rades de la Mer Mediterranée Dediée A Monseigneur le Grand Prieur de France, General des Galeres Levé et Dessigné sur les Lieux par les Srs. Michelot Hydrographe et Pilote Real des Galeres du Roy et Bremond Hydrog, 1730
Oblong 4to (300 by 220mm), title, 37 engraved charts, ‘Marseilles, 6th June 1752’ in manuscript to free endpaper, original marbled paper wrappers, rubbed and scuffed.
[Marseilles, c.1730].
1030
These charts represent France’s burgeoning prominence in sea chart production at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The charts were produced by Bermond and Michelot under the direction of the...
These charts represent France’s burgeoning prominence in sea chart production at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The charts were produced by Bermond and Michelot under the direction of the ‘Dépôt Général des Cartes et Plans, Journaux et Mémoires concernant la Navigation’. The ‘Dépôt’, set-up in 1720 and directed by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, sponsored numerous hydrographic campaigns, including those of Pène, Ayrouard, Bougard, and Freycinet.