Lot 435: ROUX, JOSEPH.

RECEUIL DES PRINCIPAUX PLANS, DES PORTS ET RADES DE LA MER MEDITERRANÉE ESTRAITS. MARSEILLE: J. ROUX, 1764 , SECOND EDITION, OBLONG 8VO (164 X 225MM.), PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER , ENGRAVED TITLE BY LAURENT, 121 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVED PLANS, TITLE AND PLANS COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, 12 OR SO PLANS WITH CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT NOTES IN FRENCH ON VERSOS

RECEUIL DES PRINCIPAUX PLANS, DES PORTS ET RADES DE LA MER MEDITERRANÉE ESTRAITS. MARSEILLE: J. ROUX, 1764, SECOND EDITION, OBLONG 8VO (164 X 225MM.), PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER, ENGRAVED TITLE BY LAURENT, 121 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVED PLANS, TITLE AND PLANS COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, 12 OR SO PLANS WITH CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT NOTES IN FRENCH ON VERSOS

Ibid. Carte de la mer Mediterranée en douze feuilles. Marseille: J. Roux, 1764, second issue, tall folio (640 x 350mm.), 12 folding mapsheets, printed on thick paper and coloured by a later hand to match the smaller volume

Together 2 volumes, recent uniform calf gilt by J. Smart, double gilt fillet borders on covers, spine gilt with ship and anchor motifs

LITERATURE

Blackmer 1455 (Carte only); NMM 3:268 and 3:267; Nordenskiöld Collection 2:254 (Recueil des plans); Phillips, Atlases 5172 and 195

NOTE

A fine copy of Roux's influential collection of harbour plans, together with his accompanying charts of the Mediterranean, as used by HMS Victory at Trafalgar.

"It is surprising that HMS Victory should have been using French charts some forty years after their first appearance, 130 years after Seller's first Mediterranean chart book, and ten years after Alexander Dalrymple had been appointed as the first official Hydrographer to the Navy" (Wardington Catalogue).