MORTIER PIETER and JAILLOT HUBERT Le Neptune Francois ou Atl

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MORTIER, PIETER and JAILLOT, HUBERT. Le Neptune Francois, ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines. Engraved additional title, 3 ship plates, one plate of scales, 29 double-page charts hand-colored in outline. bound with--Cartes Marines a l'Usage des Armees du Roy de la Grande Bretagne . . . par le Sr. Romain de Hooge. Engraved additional title, 9 engraved charts, including double-page and folding, hand-colored in outline. Folio, 630x505 mm, contemporary 1/4 dyed calf over paste-paper boards, worn and scuffed; scattered finger-soiling in margins as expected, some offsetting on charts from original colors, folding Gascogne chart partially reinforced along fold on verso; generally ample margins. Paris [but Amsterdam], 1693; Amsterdam, 1693

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first edition. "The Neptune Francois and its second part Cartes Marines a l'usage du Roy de la Grande Bretagne was the most expensive sea-atlas ever published in Amsterdam in the 17th century. Its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of this kind. For the engraving and etching Mortier had recruited the most qualified artists [including Romein de Hooghe] . . . This magnificent work was intended more as a show-piece than something to be used by the pilots at sea"--Koemen IV, page 423-24. Koemen IV, M. Mor 1.