Recueil des principaux plans des ports et rades de la Mer Méditerranée estraits de ma carte en douze feuilles, dédiée à Mons[ei]g[neu]r le duc de Choiseul, ministre de la guerre et de la Marine.

Oblong 4to: engr. title, 121 pl., table of contents at the end (tiny perforation without loss in upper corner on several lvs, pencil notes on flylvs, sl. browned).

Contemp. mottled calf, red edges (joint broken and upper cover largely detached, tr. of use).

1st ed. of this atlas with nautical charts extracted from a folio of 12 Mediterranean charts by the "Hydrographe du Roi" Joseph Roux (1725-1793), founder of the Roux Family of Marseilles which became specialists in painted pictures of ships. Copies of these charts were used for a number of years after their publication on Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory in 1803 and 1805, as well as on HMS Shannon. Engr. by Laurent.
Ref. Polak, n° 8468.