Large engraved chart, 565 x 840 mm, in original outline colour. Evidence of old folds, one short tear repaired. Amsteram : Pieter Mortier, 1720.
The largest printed chart of Madagascar before the nineteenth century, prepared for Mortier’s Suite du Neptune Francois, a large format sea-atlas of the world outside Europe; it was principally intended for library, rather than shipboard use, hence the high quality of engraving, and the large (rather unwieldy) format of the individual charts.
