(JAILLOT, A.H.) - SEA-CHART OF THE WESTCOAST OF IRELAND FROM "LE NEPTUNE FRANCOIS".

Carte Particuliere des Costes Occidentales D'Irlande qui comprend la Baye de Galloway Et la Riviere de Lymerick, Comme elles paroissent a basse mer dans les grandes Marées. (No date, no place (1693)).

Very large engraved seechart, measuring 61 x 87,5 cm. in original outline colouring with large inset view of the harbour of Kinsal and Kinsal River. The chart showing the Westcoast of Ireland from Bay of Roonstahound to Kiriec (in lower left corner C. Berey scr.) A fine impression on good thick paper with the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. fOLDED DOWN THE CENTER.

The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693, and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. The chart is without year, place and "par Ordre du Roi", pointing to a later issue, but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV,425:11.

Order-nr.: 16118