A sea chart of the Channel Islands and adjacent French coast from Cherbourg to Coutances. It is published by Richard Mount and Thomas Page and derived from that in the ‘Neptune Francais’ published in Paris in 1693. It marked a significant moment in improved coastal cartography. This English version was first published in 1701 in ‘The Sea Coasts of France …Describ’d in Fifteen Large Charts, Surveyed and Printed by Order of the French King’. Number ‘4’ in the atlas, engraved lower right, the chart focuses more on the Channel Islands omitting some of the French coastline and is rotated 180º to offer a perspective from England. Further editions of the atlas appeared c.1715 and 1737.

The chart was also included in some, but not all, examples of the ‘Atlas Maritimus Novus’ first published the following year 1702. The same was the case in the ensuing editions of 1708, c.1715, 1721, 1750, and 1755. Indeed, it may not even have been available at these later dates as I have been unable to identify any later than 1702 to possess it. Sanderson (1971) 403 no. 11 & 404 no. 43; Shirley (2004) M.M&P-12a no. 4.