Elephant folio (630 x 495 mm). Manuscript contents list in English on the upper paste-down, calling for thirty-three subjects, annotated to identify the section of coast depicted; thirty-one engraved coastal or harbour charts, nine double-page, and two plates of coastal recognition profiles, all with the blind-stamp of the mapseller Claude-Nicolas Dezauche. Bound up as an atlas assembled to order from a stock of loose sheet charts, some sheets previously folded then flattened for binding, the paper stock varying, many with the engraved price revised in manuscript. A few trimmed into the plate number, else a very good copy. Paris : Dépôt General de la Marine, [variously dated to], 1831.
Fine series of charts of Corsica, taken from the marine survey conducted under the direction of M. Hell (Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell), a hydrographer in the French Navy active in the Mediterranean, subsequently appointed Director of the École Navale de Brest, 1830 to 1835, and later Directeur du Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine.
