Recueil de 163 des Principaux Plans des Ports et Rades de la Mediterranee dont 40 ont ete dernierement publies par Jean Joseph Allezard Ancien Capitaine de Marine et plus 16 des meilleurs Capitaines Anglais
- hardcover
- Livourne: Gamba, 1848
Livourne: Gamba, 1848. hardcover. very good. Ornate copper-engraved title page; hand-colored frontispiece of flags; and illustrated with 163 engraved detailed maps, with folding map of Odessa (professionally repaired). Each map is numbered in the plate, but some are bound out of sequence. Plates 1-163 with 14 plates missing. Plates 167-180 are from Heather's New Mediterranean Pilot. Index includes list from both atlases. Oblong 8vo, original marbled boards, calf spine (leather is chipped but still solid; toning and scattered foxing throughout; manuscript notes in ink on flyleaf). Livourne: Joseph Gamba, dated 1833 but 1848 edition. Very good. Scarce.