Routier des cotes des Indes Orientales et de la Chine.

£2,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Rare Pilot to the East Indies published simultaneously to accompany the large “Neptune Oriental” atlas. It was compiled by Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d’Après de Mannevillette (1707-80), hydrographer to the French Navy, supported by the French East India Company and the Académie des Sciences. Born in Le Havre of a seafaring family Apres de Mannevillette had a long and distinguished career as a navigator and was one of the first French hydrographers. After studying mathematics in Paris, he gained early experience of the sea in a voyage to the Caribbean at the age of nineteen. During many subsequent voyages he assembled a collection of material for this East Indian hydrographic atlas which was published with the support of the Academie des Sciences.

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