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![OLIVIER, F[rancois] Carte de l'Archipel Aussi Corrigee par F. Olivier Pilote Vice-Admiral au Departement de Toulon en 1746.](https://omega.crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1302_1H.jpg)
Carte de l'Archipel Aussi Corrigee par F. Olivier Pilote Vice-Admiral au Departement de Toulon en 1746.
Toulon,
1746.
Engraved chart, backed with minor loss to margins and at folds.
800 by 570mm (31.5 by 22.5 inches).
1302
notes:
The title is set within a fine title cartouche depicting sea monsters. Below are Dutch, English and French scale bars. The chart itself is finely engraved with rumb lines and several compass roses.
Little is know of Francois Olivier (fl.1746-1782), however, he must have been a fine seaman as he present chart gives him the title of Vice-Admiral of the Toulon region ("Vice-Amiral au Departement de Toulon"). By the middle of the eighteenth century Toulon had become ...
Little is know of Francois Olivier (fl.1746-1782), however, he must have been a fine seaman as he present chart gives him the title of Vice-Admiral of the Toulon region ("Vice-Amiral au Departement de Toulon"). By the middle of the eighteenth century Toulon had become ...
bibliography:
Zacharakis 2482; NMM 260 chart 3.
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