[Navy]. ALLEZARD (Jean Joseph). Recueil de 163 des principau - Lot 4

[Navy]. ALLEZARD (Jean Joseph). Recueil de 163 des principaux plans des ports et rades de la Méditerranée, dont 40 ont été dernièrement publiés A Livourne, chez J. Gamba, 1817. In-8 oblong, recent brown basane binding, smooth, muted spine (transfer of front. col. on title; pl. 31 to 35 reassembled out of order, 5 pl. corroded including 2 on engraving, soiling). New edition of this entirely copper-engraved atlas of ports, comprising a colored frontispiece showing flags, a title leaf, 163 maps of ports and roadsteads, a folding plate and a table leaf. This compendium, which was extremely useful for commercial navigation at the time, covers the coasts of the Mediterranean, in particular those of the Barbary states (Tangiers, Oran, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli) and the Near East (Beirut...).