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This chart of the harbour of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka is from the French ‘Histoire de la Derniere Guerre, entre la Grande-Bretagne, et les États-Unis de l’Amerique … 1775, jusqu’a sa fin en 1783’ by Odet-Julien le Boucher. Published in 1787 it is a rare work. Boucher was an eminent French historian whose reputation was built on this work. Howes describes it as the best French chronicle of the wars. Howes L169; Sabin 6840.
BOUCHER, Odet-Julien le
Plan de la Baye de Trinquemalay Pour servir à l'intelligence de cette Histoire, Copiée avec permission de M.gr le Maréchal DE CASTRIES, Ministre et Secretaire d'État de la Marine et des Colonies. Sur celui du petit Atlas Maritime de Belin, Tome III. N.o 32
Paris, 1787
215 x 170 mm., in good condition.
Stock number: 6379
£ 55