"Carte nouvelle des costes de Hollande, Zeelande,... Lot 1041

"Carte nouvelle des costes de Hollande, Zeelande, Flandre, Picardie, & Normandie, depuis la Brille, jusques à Dieppe, avec une partie des costes d'Angleterre, depuis l'emboucheure de la Tamise, et les isles voisines jusques à Bevesier, ou l'on voit tous les ports de mer, bancs de sable & rochers, à l'usage des armées de sa Majesté Britannique". Amsterdam P. Mortier 1693 Engr., 59 x 94,5 cm assembled from 2 pl., hand-coloured. Framed. Chart of British origin designed and etched by Romein de Hooghe who was at that time in the service of King William III of England. With 2 inset views of Calais and Dunkirk. From Pierre Mortier's "Cartes marines à l'usage du Roy de la Grande Bretagne" that was the most expensive sea-atlas published in 17th-c. Amsterdam. Contrary to Mortier's counterfeited "Neptune François", published jointly with H. Jaillot, this work was not based on a printed French prototype, but on ms. charts. The magnificient work was intended as a showpiece rather than as something being used by pilots at sea. Ref. Koeman IV, M. Mor 5/1.