Atlas maritime ou Cartes reduites de toutes les Côtes de France.... Paris: Lattré, [c. 1762]. Engraved throughout with 4 preliminary leaves (title-page and dedication engraved by LeGrand, advertisements, table); 12 hand-colored double-page maps; 18 double-page town plans; and 8 leaves with descriptive text engraved on rectos and versos. 12mo (124 x 75 mm). Modern full calf gilt in antique style. One town plan a little frayed in margins. First edition. Fine, charming pocket atlas of the harbors and coastal towns of France. Rigobert Bonne would succeed Jacques Bellin as Royal Hydrographer in 1773. Phillips 2988. Provenance: Gift inscription dated 1777: "M. Stephenson to his friend Captn Bower."
Atlas maritime ou Cartes reduites de toutes les Côtes de France.... Paris: Lattré, [c. 1762]. Engraved throughout with 4 preliminary leaves (title-page and dedication engraved by LeGrand, advertisements, table); 12 hand-colored double-page maps; 18 double-page town plans; and 8 leaves with descriptive text engraved on rectos and versos. 12mo (124 x 75 mm). Modern full calf gilt in antique style. One town plan a little frayed in margins. First edition. Fine, charming pocket atlas of the harbors and coastal towns of France. Rigobert Bonne would succeed Jacques Bellin as Royal Hydrographer in 1773. Phillips 2988. Provenance: Gift inscription dated 1777: "M. Stephenson to his friend Captn Bower."
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