Carte de l'Océan Atlantique Méridional (depuis l'Equateur jusqu'au 59 ème degré de latitude) rédigée par C. L. Gressier Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine. Publiée par Ordre du Roi sous le Ministère de M. le Comte Jacob Vice-Amiral, Pair de France, Secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine et des Colonies. Au Dépôt-général de la Marine en 1834. Gravé par Michel. Ecrit par J. M. Hacq.

• Main Authors: Dépôt General de la Marine, Gressier, Charles-Louis, 1791-1886, Michel, Hacq, J. M.
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Depot de la Marine 1834
• Subjects: Nautical Charts; South Atlantic Ocean
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Nautical chart of the South Atlantic Ocean (from the Equator to the 59th degree of latitude), surveyed in 1834. Shows cities, ports, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, shoals, islands, depths and anchorage. Features hand-drawn annotations in colored pencil, tracing voyages, labeled with dates. Colors represent different ships: Isère (solid red line), Voltigeur (dashed red line), and Cléopâtre (blue line). Includes rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as explanatory text. Seal: Dépôt Général de la Marine. Black and white engraving. Map is 57 x 86 cm, on double sheet 63 x 92 cm. Created by C. L. Gressier, Engineer Hydrographer of the Navy. Published by Order of the King under the Ministry of M. le Comte Jacob Vice-Admiral, Peer of France, Secretary of State in the Department of the Navy and the Colonies, at the Depot-General of the Navy in 1834. "No. 801." [French composite sea atlas focusing on colonization in Southeast Asia], published in Paris in 1843, with additions until 1855. Large folio bound in black-and-pink speckled board with contemporary red roan spine. Gilt ornamentation on spine. Atlas comprised of 36 plates (mostly double) with three celestial maps and 35 nautical charts, engraved or lithographed and mounted on tabs. Charts show countries, cities, roads, ports, deserts, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, shoals, islands, depths and anchorage. A fine collection of charts issued by the Depot de la Marine with manuscript additions showing three voyage routes, including that of the Cléopâtre, a frigate which served in the French Asian squadron. Several of the charts show some of the first detailed surveys of parts of the Philippines and the Ryukyu Islands. This pioneering hydrography was overseen by Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cecille, commander of the Indian and China Sea squadron in the early 1840s, and Cecille is mentioned on several of the charts in the atlas. It was most likely a reference atlas compiled over several decades by Cecille or a colleague. The first maps were ...