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 Hydrographe du Roy et de la Ville, avec Pri. Du Roy.
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.
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.
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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.
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Greenwood’s large-scale map of Somerset 
Bellin’s map of the vicinity of Canton ![Dong Fangli (Youcheng) 董方立(佑誠) (1791-1823), Li Zhaoluo 李兆洛 (1769-1841) Huangchao yitong yudi quantu 皇朝壹统舆地全圖 [Complete Map of the Unified Qing Empire].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/14998_1H.jpg?fit=3500%2C2683&ssl=1)
Longitude and Latitude on a map of the Qing Empire 
Bigge’s damning report of Macquarie’s tenure as emancipist Governor of the Colony of New South Wales 
First inklings of self-government and nationhood for Australia ![SENEX, John [and Mary SENEX] A New & Correct Globe of the Earth.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/24423_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C4400&ssl=1)
A pocket globe by a female mapmaker ![VEALE, George; [James] BROOKE (engraver) George Veale Glover](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/17973_1H.jpg?fit=4032%2C5562&ssl=1)
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