Subject: Eastern Mediterranean
Period: 1715 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Black & White
Size:
25.1 x 18.4 inches
63.8 x 46.7 cm
This beautifully engraved sea chart by Henri Michelot and Laurent Bremond covers the Aegean Sea in great detail. It spans from Thrace south to Crete and includes a significant stretch of the Greek and Turkish coastlines. Numerous islands are identified. Place names line the coasts, but there is no inland detail. The chart is crisscrossed with rhumb lines and multiple decorative compass roses orient north to the right. The title is enclosed in a cartouche inspired by classical architecture. A distance scale appears at bottom. Engraved by Coelemans.
References: Shirley (BL Atlases) M.MICH-1a.
Condition: A
A slightly uneven impression with some printer's ink residue on a bright sheet with a sun watermark.