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D'APRÉS DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis (1707 -1780). Routier des côtes des Indes-Orientales et de la Chine. Paris: J. B. Delespine, 1745.
4° (250 x 190 mm). Title printed in red and black. Engraved folding plate. Contemporary French mottled calf, gilt-decorated smooth spine (rebacked preserving original backstrip).
FIRST EDITION. D'Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780), the son of a captain in the service of the Compagnie des Indes, made his first voyage to the Caribbean at the age of 19 after a comprehensive naval education. From the outset he collected information for a future marine atlas of the eastern seas, and after many voyages published the first edition of his atlas entitled Neptune Oriental in 1745 (see lots 69 and 92), which “quickly found its way into the pilot cabins of ships of several nations, and its 22 charts were immediately recognised as being superior to all previous maps of Southeast Asian coasts” (Suárez p.238). Its success brought him a wide following, and he was later employed in the library of the Compagnie des Indes at Lorient. This work was published the same year and includes a fine folding plate depicting the View of the Bay on the Isle du Roy, near the Mergui Archipelago in far southern Myanmar (Burma).
Polak 133; Querard 1598.
4° (250 x 190 mm). Title printed in red and black. Engraved folding plate. Contemporary French mottled calf, gilt-decorated smooth spine (rebacked preserving original backstrip).
FIRST EDITION. D'Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780), the son of a captain in the service of the Compagnie des Indes, made his first voyage to the Caribbean at the age of 19 after a comprehensive naval education. From the outset he collected information for a future marine atlas of the eastern seas, and after many voyages published the first edition of his atlas entitled Neptune Oriental in 1745 (see lots 69 and 92), which “quickly found its way into the pilot cabins of ships of several nations, and its 22 charts were immediately recognised as being superior to all previous maps of Southeast Asian coasts” (Suárez p.238). Its success brought him a wide following, and he was later employed in the library of the Compagnie des Indes at Lorient. This work was published the same year and includes a fine folding plate depicting the View of the Bay on the Isle du Roy, near the Mergui Archipelago in far southern Myanmar (Burma).
Polak 133; Querard 1598.