American Neptune. Neptune Americo-Septentrional
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Paris: Depôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, 1778-1780. Folio (24 3/8 x 19 2/8 inches). Engraved title-page, 26 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE engraved charts and plans of the Atlantic seaboard on 13 full sheets and 5 half sheets (margins browned, some pale waterstaining throughout, some creases). Contemporary calf backed blue paper boards, vellum corners (worn). First edition. Published for the use of the French navy during the American Revolution, by order of Antoine Sartine (1729-1801), then Minister of Marine (1774-1780), and a great moderniser of the French navy. Prior to the American Revolution he had increased shipbuilding by almost four-fold enabling an extraordinary production of 9 ships of-the-line a year by the time the French entered the fray in 1778. The subjects of the charts include the coasts of Florida and Louisiana, Boston Harbor (after Des Barres), Charleston Harbor, Narragansett Bay (after Blaskowitz), the Delaware River (after Fisher), and the Hudson River. Phillips, Atlases 1211; Howes N52
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American Neptune. Neptune Americo-Septentrional
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