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Atlases.- [Collins (Capt. Greenville)] [Cartes et Plans de plusieurs parties des Côtes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande], maps only, lacking letterpress title and contents leaf, with 19 engraved charts, all but one double-page, rather water- & damp-stained, contemporary mottled sheep with central gilt arms of ?French naval ministry, spine gilt, rubbed, edges a little worn and stained, folio, [Paris, Jacques Bellin], [1757]; sold not subject to return ⁂ Collins surveyed the British coast between 1681 and 1688 and issued his Great Britain's Coasting Pilot, the first such systematic survey, in 1693. This French edition was published by Bellin in anticipation of a French invasion during the Seven Years War.