MORTIER, P.

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MORTIER, P.
Carte particuliere de L'Isle Dauphine ou Madagascar. Amsterdam, 1700. Beau col. ancien. Très bel exemplaire sur papier fort, en plein coloris d'époque dont les roses des vents et les villes ont été rehaussées d'or à l'époque. - In mint condition. Compass-rose and town spots heightened with gold. 562 x 851 mm. * Magnifique carte de Madagascar publiée dans "Le Neptune François" l'un des atlas maritimes les plus spectaculaires jamais produits. Mortier recruta, pour faire graver les cartes du Neptune, les plus grands artistes de son temps. Plus qu'un atlas maritime, cet atlas était une oeuvre de prestige. La carte orientée à l'est, représente fonds marins et bancs de sable. Un carton, en bas à gauche, figure la "Baye de St. Augustin". Le format exceptionnel et le somptueux coloris rehaussé d'or de cette carte en font une pièce unique. An impressive large sheet map of the island of Madagascar. Numerous place names, soundings and sand banks are shown round the island and the regions are defined in original body colour. East to the top. Including the islands of "I. De Bourbon", "Santa Apolonia", "I. De Ioan de Lisboa" and "Isles de Comorre". In lower left hand corner inset map of Bay St.Augustin. The regions are defined in original body colour. From Mortier's "Neptune François", one of the most spectacular cartographical works ever produced. According to Koeman: "... the most expensive sea-atlas ever published in Amsterdam... Its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of this kind. For the engraving and etching Mortier had recruited the most qualified artists. This magnificent work was intended more as a show piece than something to be used by pilots at sea." The most beautiful charts in the atlas were those in part two, by the celebrated artist, Romeyn de Hooghe. Campbell says that when "found in the full colouring characteristic of their time, they are among the most magnificent of any age." This is a particularly beautiful example
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