jean baptiste nicolas denis daprès mannevillette (5 résultats)

1 blank sheet, singleside printed titlesheet, x[10] sheets 'Preface'; 52 sheets of text consisting of 194 [+14] vertically halfpage columns of 'Instructions . . .'(c. [1]-38); 'De la Route . . .'(c. 39-47/48); 'Description de la Côte d'Afrique, . . .'(c. 47/48-64); 'Des Cotes d'Afrique . . .'(c. 65-191); 'Mémoire sur la Carte . . .'(c. 191-194); 'Tables des Variations' (c. [195]-[199/200]); 'Avis au relieur. . .'(c. [199/200]); 'Table des Articles' (c. [201]-[202]); 'Extraits des Régistres de L'Académie Royale de Marine du 9 Mars 1775'; 'Rapport de >Neptune Oriental<' (c. [203]-[207/208]); 'Privilège du Roi' (c. [207/208]); except 1st blank and titlesheet re. all printed on thick and untrimmed blueish large paper. - Thick colour-marbled paper covered cardbord-binding of the period with gilt-titled and -decorated leather spinelabel; imperial-folio (ca. 59 x 44 x 5 cm; ca. 4,5 kg.). *** SECOND EDITION, IN A ORIGINAL BINDING OF THE PERIOD; text complete, lacking all maps (not removed by us). - Shortly after its publication the 1745 first edition of 'Le Neptune Oriental' most copies were destroyed by the French Admiralty to keep the secrets of East Indian navigation. 30 years later, having been appointed 'Director of Chart at L'Orient' in 1762 by the Compagnie des Indes and conferred the 'Order of St. Michael' in 1767 by King Louis XV, Mannevillette, together with his friend Alexander Dalrymple, updated his original work with new and improved charts and republished his opus magnum in a greatly expanded format. --- Corners of the binding slightly rubbed; A VERY GOOD COPY.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Second. Second edition, enlarged. Paris: Chez Demonville & Brest: Chez Malassis, 1775. Folio (21 5/8" x 16 13/16", 548mm x 426mm). [Full collation available.] With an engraved frontispiece (painted by Boucher, engraved by Tilliard), an engraved head-piece to the dedication and 63 engraved charts (29 folding, 34 single). Bound in contemporary cat's paw calf with a triple gilt fillet border. On the spine, five raised bands with a dashed gilt roll. In the panels, gilt florals. Title gilt to red morocco in the second panel. Gilt roll to the edges of the boards. All edges of the text-block speckled red. Spine and fore-corners restored. Some wear to the boards at the acid-spots. Moderate fore-edge dampstain to charts 51, 51bis and 52, and lower-edge marginal dampstain to a several plates. Some numbers have been pasted over, as have sections of some charts. Altogether quite a clean and robust set of charts on the original stubs. D'Apres de Mannevillette (1707-1780), unlike so many of his cartographic colleagues, was a proper ship's captain and navigator. As a captain of the French East-India Company, he was the first Frenchman to use the octant, which allowed him to make significant advances over previous charts and maps throughout southern Asia. Indeed, so much did his publications surpass his peers' that his atlases became de rigeur in the cabins of nearly all French ships in the second half of the XVIIIc. Although the king and then the revolution would hamper French colonial holdings in eastern India and southeast Asia broadly, d'Apres's maps would guide their rivals and successors. The first edition of Neptune Oriental (1745) contained only about two dozen charts; d'Apres worked for three additional decades to add some forty maps. As often with atlases of this period, the number of charts was variable depending on the purse and interests of the purchaser. The copy inscribed by d'Apres to George III (now in the BL) has 59 charts; those in the BnF have between 60 and 69 plates. It seems that no copy adheres to the list of plates supplied for the binder. The present copy with its 63 charts lines up fairly well; no. 10 is "à placer" and lacking, no. 19 is bound after 20, and no. 46 is lacking numerically but the chart itself, "Carte de l'isle to Java" is present as no. 44. In all, this is quite a robust collection. The chart of Hong Kong (53) deserves special mention. It benefitted from Dalrymple's surveys through 1760, far surpassing previous charts, and almost indicates its separation from the mainland; the northeast was clearly too rocky to allow for an accurate account. Phillips 3165, Shirley BL Atlases 1067-1068.

LeatherBound. Etat : New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1781 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 85 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 85 Language: French.

"3 volumes: text, Atlas and Supplement. Folio (22 x 16 4/8 inches; 23 x 17 2/8 inches; 26 6/8 x 20 2/8 inches). Text volume, contemporary French mottled calf gilt (scuffed); Atlas: 39 fine double-page engraved maps and 36 full-page maps numbered 1-59 including a number of duplicates, extra-illustrated with 5 manuscript maps of the area surrounding the island of Java (some soiling and creasing), 19th-century half tan calf, maroon cloth, supra-libros of the Admiralty Library on the front cover; Supplement: letterpress title-page and contents leaf. Fine folding engraved maps of the world after discoveries made by La Perouse, and 11 fine folding engraved maps and 3 full-page maps. Contemporary half red morocco, red paper boards, gilt (extremities a bit scuffed). Provenance: Early penciled annotations giving soundings to map of coast of Borneo; Musée de la Citadelle Vauban, their sale 16th July 2010, lot 66. Second edition. The additional manuscript maps are in French and English and show the area around the island of Java, particularly near Bantam, one or two are copies of portions of maps found in the Supplement. The most interesting is an early and important ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAP: "A Sketch of the Ship Ponsborne's [sic] Track from North Island shewing the soundings, from thence thr'ogh the Streight of Sunda, between the Strom Rock at Po. Candang and between Tamarin and Cockatore [Krakatoa]. February 1774 (12 x 14 4/8 inches to the neat line). The Sundra Strait connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean, and as such is an extremely important shipping route, in use for centuries, but especially during the period when the Dutch East India Company used it as the gateway to the Spice Islands of Indonesia (1602-1799). The strait's notorious narrowness, shallowness and lack of accurate charting make it unsuitable for many modern large ships, most of which use the Strait of Malacca instead (Freeman). The Ponsbourne was an East-Indiaman, owned by Thomas Lane and built by the Barnard family of shipbuilders. The Atlas volume contains the following maps: "Carte des Côtes occidentales de France dressée pour le Neptune oriental par M.R. L'Abbé Dicquemare, son ami", "Plan du Port Louis et de l'Orient", "Levée géométriquement en 1752 par M. de ****. (Gravé par G. de la Haye)", "Vue de la Baye de False", "Plan de la Baye et du Port de Rio Janeiro Levé géométriquement par Le P.Capassi. À Paris chez Dezauche, successeur des Sieurs Delisle et Philippe Buache rue des Noyers, 1785", "Carte réduite de l'Océan orientale qui contient la Côte d'Afrique avec l'Isle Madagascar", "P.B.St. A levé en 1758 par Mr. G. Nichelson", "Plan des îles Mahé Delahaye", ".qui contient une partie des Costes d'Afrique, de l'Arabie, de la Perse et celle de l'Indostan", "Mandeb sur la Coste méridionale de l'Arabie Heureuse ", "Carte (non numérotée) de la Coste de Guzerat du Golfe de Cambaye et des Cêtes de Concan et de Canara" ".vues diverses de l'Isle aux Cochons", "Carte de la Côte orientale d'Afrique depuis l'île de Patte jusques à Mosambique", "Carte réduite de l'Océan oriental depuis le Cap de Bonne Espérance jusqu'au Japon par D'Après. 1753". The Supplement contains the following maps: "Carte reduite des Iles de France et de Bourbon. 1798" 1802, "Plan du Port de Tintingne. du Port Louis en 1821", "Carte Generale de la Mer Rouge" 1798 on three sheets, "Carte du Golfe de Suez" 1798, "Carte des Cotes de Guzerat, de Concar et de Canara", "Carte de la Partie Meridionale de la Presque 'Isle de l'Inde que comprend l'Isle de Ceylan" 1798, "Plan de la Baye de Manville. 1789" 1798, "Carte d'une parite de Cours de la Riviere de Saigon", ".des Cotes de la Cochinchine" 1798 in three sheets; map of "l'Ocean Oriental" 1753 loosely inserted. d'Apres de Mannevillette, the celebrated French cartographer had a long and distinguished career in the French East India Company. He studied under the famous Guillaume Delisle, the King's geographer, an".

LeatherBound. Etat : New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1775 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 678 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 678 Language: French.