Rare pilot of French ports

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Plans des principaux ports de France tous reduits sur la meme Echelle.

[ANONYMOUS]
[?Paris,
c.1790].
Octavo (180 by 230mm), title, 42 engraved plans on 35 leaves, original blue marbled paper boards, rubbed, rebacked.
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The work comprises of 42 engraved plans of French ports all drawn to the same scale; starting with Antwerp and then following France's northern coast, down the Atlantic coast, and into the Mediterranean. The work rather strangely ends with a plan of Gibraltar.

Rare we are only able to trace two other examples coming up at auction in the past 25 years. ...

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