Suite du Neptune françois, ou, Atlas nouveau des cartes marines : levées par ordre expres des roys de Portugal, sous qui on a fait la découverture de l'Afrique &c., et données au public par les soins de feu Monsieur d'Ablancourt ... / le tout fait sur les observations & l'experience des plus habiles ingenieurs & pilotes.
Alternate Title(s):
Atlas nouveau des cartes marines
Published / Created:
A Amsterdam : chez Pierre Mortier, libraire, MDCC [1700]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (5, [1] pages, [80] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, 37 maps ; 65 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio B 2023 9Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scales differ.
Notes:
"For [Suite du Neptune françois], Mortier had obtained the ms. charts, copied by d'Ablancourt from the originals in Portuguese archives."--Koeman.The largest number of maps cover the coasts of Africa and North America.A sequel to: Le Neptune françois, ou, Atlas nouveau des cartes marines (A Paris [i.e. Amsterdam] : Chez Hubert Jaillot aux Deux Globes [i.e. Pieter Mortier], MDCLXXXXIII [1693]).The leaves of plates comprise: Boussole des vents ... (1 leaf); 18 prints of ships; 37 maps on 61 leaves. Twenty-four of the maps are printed across facing leaves, folded at the inner margin.Relief shown pictorially.Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, M. Mor 7BAC Folio B 2023 9: Includes three variations from the copy described in Koeman (M. Mor 7): [1] preceded by the allegorical engraved title page that also appeared with Le Neptune françois; [2] includes a 19th engraving of ships: "Solemnité du Bucentaure qui se célèbre à Venise le jour de l'Ascension" with reference to a different publication ("Tome 1, pag. 266"); the 25th map varies, titled in Dutch "Paskaert vande Caspise Zee" (1 leaf). Plates are hand-colored. Bound with: Le Neptune françois, ou, Atlas nouveau des cartes marines (A Paris [i.e. Amsterdam] : Chez Hubert Jaillot aux Deux Globes [i.e. Pieter Mortier], 1703).
Subject Terms:
Coasts. | Coasts -- Africa. | Coasts -- North America. | Sailing ships. | Africa -- Maps. | North America -- Maps.