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A fine early French maritime chart of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Crete. This is the first map published by the Depot des Carte et Plans de la Marine. The map includes stars which mark the locations where accurate longitude and latitude measurements have been taken, a cross marks that of latitude only. Chapuis (2019) History of Cartography.
DE MAUREPAS, Jean-Frederic Phelypeaux, Le Comte

Carte Reduite de la Mer Mediterranee

Paris, 1737
595 x 530 mm. ea., with some strengthening to double fold, early outline colour.
Stock number: 2996

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