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D'Italie between Mont Argentat and Messine, 1718

Date

• 1718
• 1726

Creator

• Michelot, Henri, hydrographer
• Coelemans, Jacques, 1654?-1735, engraver
• Randon, Claude, approximately 1674-1704, engraver

Language

• French

Collection

• Nouvelle Carte Generalle de la Mer Mediterranée

Description

• Map numbered 10/16: d'Italie between Mont Argentat and Messine. Created in 1718, the scale is approximately 1: 1,150,000. Covers coasts of Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia. Has upper right legend with an ornamental frame and two bars stating the scale for English or French leagues equal to 20 for one degree (roughly 30 to 14.5cm) and each Italian or Provincial mile is 75 to a degree (or 110 miles per 14.5cm). Graduated scale on left and right sides of map specifying the region lies within 42°35' to 37°45' North. Verso inscribed in ink.
• Map is from a bound collection of charts of the Mediterranean Sea, without a common title. The title is taken from the second map bound in atlas and represents the Mediterranean with the coasts of Spain, Morocco, Algeria, France, Italy, Greece. Also shows the Mediterranean islands including three large maps of Corsica, Sardinia and Malta. The atlas opens with the New Ocean Coasts Map showing the coasts of Portugal, Morocco and the Canaries, with the Strait of Gibraltar. Library copy lacks maps number 4, 9, and 13. Call Number: G5672.M4P5 1726 .H4
• The maps are adorned with very large decorative title cartouches with the arms of the dedicatee Jean-Philippe d'Orléans (1702-1748), provided with the office of General of the Galleys in 1716 and that of Grand Prior of France of the Order of Malta in 1719. The cards, all addressed to Laurent Bremond in Marseille, are engraved, mostly by Peter Starckman between 1715 and 1726. Only the last card has no dedicatee. Some cards are also adorned with scale cartouches. All are doubles except that of Catalogne, Roussillon (1718) which is quadruple. Library copy has an inscription on the inside front cover: "This volume of maps and charts of the Mediterranean & Mer Seas is the donation of M.A. Giraud, Esq. to the Lexington Athenaeum. 28th March 1820." The charts were produced by Bremond and Michelot under the direction of the 'Dépôt Général des Cartes et Plans, Journaux et Mémoires concernant la Navigation'.