Mannevillette’s Chart of the Bay of Bengal Printed Area Measurement_66.5 x 90 cm sheet size gilt-ruled with gilt ornaments and

gilt-ruled with gilt ornaments and title lettered direct to spine

engraved for Thornton’s History and derived from Noorthouck

An illustrated record of important events in the annals of Europe

dissected into 28 panels and laid on linen

Mannevillette’s Chart of the Bay of Bengal Printed Area Measurement_66.5 x 90 cm sheet size gilt-ruled with gilt ornaments andCarte Reduite du Golfe de Bangale DAprs de Mannevillette (1707 1780) was a practical seaman as well as a mapmaker; his sea atlas was published in Paris in 1745 with the backing of the Academie des Sciences under the title Le Neptune Oriental. He continued to revise and augment his charts over the next thirty years, and issued an expanded version of the Atlas and a supplement 1775 81. Condition & Materials Copper engraved chart of the Bay of Bengal,