APRÈS de MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste d'. - Lot 8

APRÈS de MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste d'. Le Neptune Oriental [Avec] Supplément au Neptune oriental. A Paris, chez Demonville, et à Brest, chez Malassis, 1775-1781. 2 volumes in-folio (56 x 49 cm), frontispiece, 69 maps and (2) ff. 16 columns on 4 ff. 18 maps. Contemporary speckled fawn basane and havana basane for the Supplement, 6-ribbed spine, havana title page, red edges (rubbed and worn, headbands worn, upper jaw split by a few cm, binding of the Supplement rubbed, marginal defects including a few stains and wet spots). With an allegorical frontispiece of Neptune, copper-engraved by J.B. Tilliard after F. Boucher, and 69 copper-engraved maps, mostly by Guillaume de La Haye; the Supplement includes a title page, an editor's notice, a note on the author's life, additions and corrections, and 18 black copper-engraved maps. Famous nautical and hydrographic atlas for the navigation of the East Indies and China, containing new charts, for the time, of Reunion, Madagascar, the Philippines, Sumatra, Java... made over many years by the author, hydrographer and captain of the Compagnie des Indes. Second edition. The most complete, enlarged and abundantly supplemented with data from the Company's ships, as well as correspondence between the author and well-known scientists and hydrographers of the time.