Recueil de plusieurs Plans des Ports et Rades et de quelques Cartes particulières de la Mer Méditerranée, avec les figures des Terres remarquables pour les reconnoissances des Atterrages
Published by [Paris or Marseille?] 1732-46
- First Edition
- Used
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First and only edition of this uncommon collection of charts, including the first printed chart of Monaco, a large folding map of Marseilles, and accurate charts of most of the ports, harbours and bays of the region. Ayrouard's work forms a working waggoner for the coast, recording soundings, anchorages, and pilotage notes on rocks and reefs, and includes a series of coastal profiles as a further aid to navigation. Many hydrographers later drew on this pilot, most notably William Heather, who cites Ayrouard in his New Mediterranean Pilot of 1802. Ayrouard dedicates the work to Jean Frédérick Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas, secretary to the royal household and minister of the navy in the court of Louis XV, who was prominent in attempts to introduce a more scientific approach to naval affairs until his exile in 1749 for writing derogatory epigrams about the king's mistress, Madame de Pompadour. The Conseil de la Marine, for whom this work was apparentlyproduced, wasfounded in 1720 as a central depository for maps, plans, journals, and memoirs relating to navigation. The hydrographer Ayrouard is unknown beyond the brief details he gives on the title where he describes himself as "Royal pilot of the King's Galleys", and explains that he prepared these charts on voyages he undertook on the coast, leading him to add further pilotage notes for the safe entry into certain of the harbours and roads ("avec les Remarques necessaires qu'il faut observer pour l'entrée á Certains Ports et autres Endroits"). Similarly, Louis Corne, the engraver of these superbly detailed charts, was known to Tooley solely from this work. It is possible that this was a local production, perhaps in Marseille, hydrographer and engraver brought together under the aegis of the Conseil de la Marine to produce this pilot for the benefit of visiting French naval ships. Scarce: WorldCat records just six copies outside France. NMM 206; Shirley, British Library, M.AYR-1a.; LC 7862. The Map Collector, Issue 24, p.49, 'How Monaco evolved on maps and views', by David Lyon. Olivier, Pl.2495, No.27. Quarto (335 x 256 mm). Engraved title, 4 folding engraved charts, and 75 double-page, of which 10 are coastal profiles. Contemporary mottled sheep, raised bands, red morocco label to the second compartments, anchor devices gilt to the other five, edges sprinkled blue. Housed in a brown cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Somewhat rubbed, and with skilful restoration to the board edges, joints, and head and tail of the spine; tan-burn to the endpapers, folding map of Marseilles with clean tear, no loss, professionally repaired, light browning throughout, occasional marginal staining, but overall very good.…
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- Title
- Recueil de plusieurs Plans des Ports et Rades et de quelques Cartes particulières de la Mer Méditerranée, avec les figures des Terres remarquables pour les reconnoissances des Atterrages
- Author
- AYROUARD, Jacques.
- Publisher
- [Paris or Marseille?] 1732-46
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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