The Solent. Carte Particuliere des Costes Meridionales d'Angleterre..., 1750

The Solent. Carte Particuliere des Costes Meridionales d'Angleterre qui comprend l'Isle de Wicht, et le Havre de Portsmouth, avec les autres Isles, Bancs et Costes qui sont entre le Havre de Chichester, et celuy de la Pole, published by Dépôt Des Cartes Et Plans De La Marine. circa 1750, engraved map of the Isle of Wight and southern coasts of England between Poole and Thorney Island, crest of Dépôt de la Marine below the title, contemporary hand-colouring, numerous rhumb lines, 3 compass roses, distance scales in French, English and Spanish leagues, faint foxing, small printers crease to compass rose at lower margin, 630 x 880 mm mount aperture, framed and glazed (720 x 980 mm) (Quantity: 1) From the third edition of Neptune François, published in 1753 by Dépôt de la Marine. Dépôt Des Cartes Et Plans De La Marine is a French hydrographic mapping organisation founded in 1720. Important cartographers of the day were associated with the organisation in their attempts to improve existing cartographic material including Philippe Buache, Giovanni Rizzi-Zannoni, Rigobert Bonne, Jean Nicolas Buache and Jacques-Nicholas Bellin who published this particular map.