Plan du Port de Subec, en I’Isle de Lucon [Plan of The Port of Subic on Luzon Island]
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Description
hand-coloured copper engraving.
Sea-chart of Subic Bay in Luzon, pl. 59 (60); from’Le Neptune Oriental’. This chart was drafted by Jean-Batiste de Mannevillette (1707-80) and engraved by the master Guillaume Dheulland. Mannevillette apprenticed under the great royal cartographer Guillaume De L’Isle. He then joined the maritime service of the Compagnie des Indes, eventually attaining the rank of Captain. Upon his return to Paris, Mannevillette was appointed Director of the Dêpôt des Cartes Plans de la Navigation des Indes. In 1745, he published the first edition of this sea atlas of Asian waters, Le Neptune Oriental.
Condition
upper right corner with water stain, barely touching plate, left margin minimal glue-shading, tiny hole in right lower corner of margin.