The title is set within a fine title cartouche depicting sea monsters. Below are Dutch, English and French scale bars. The chart itself is finely engraved with rumb lines and several compass roses.
Little is know of Francois Olivier (fl.1746-1782), however, he must have been a fine seaman as he present chart gives him the title of Vice-Admiral of the Toulon region ("Vice-Amiral au Departement de Toulon"). By the middle of the eighteenth century Toulon had become ...
The title is set within a fine title cartouche depicting sea monsters. Below are Dutch, English and French scale bars. The chart itself is finely engraved with rumb lines and several compass roses.
Little is know of Francois Olivier (fl.1746-1782), however, he must have been a fine seaman as he present chart gives him the title of Vice-Admiral of the Toulon region ("Vice-Amiral au Departement de Toulon"). By the middle of the eighteenth century Toulon had become one of France's most important naval bases, from where she opperated her large Mediterranean fleet.
![HOLLAR, W[enceslaus] [The seasons, full-length]](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/18368_1H.jpg?fit=2406%2C3500&ssl=1)
The Full-Length Seasons
1 × £12,000
The scarce English edition of the Mercator/Hondius atlas in original colour
1 × £250,000
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America.
1 × £150,000
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
1 × £300,000
The scarce English edition of the Mercator/Hondius atlas in original colour 
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America. 
Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator” 
![OLIVIER, F[rancois] Carte de l'Archipel Aussi Corrigee par F. Olivier Pilote Vice-Admiral au Departement de Toulon en 1746.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1302_1H.jpg?fit=1376%2C1900&ssl=1)
