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ROUX, Joseph (1834-1905), publisher. Carte de la Mer Mediteranée en Douze Feuilles . Marseille: 1764. 2° (unfolding to approximately 607 x 820 mm). 12 engraved charts mounted on guards. (Tiny marginal worming, more extensive at gutter on last 2 charts, tiny puncture hole to last 3 charts, some faint staining to chart VII, chart XI lightly browned, some faint soiling to others.) Contemporary calf, covers blindstamped with outer frame and corners decorated with foliate tools, repeated in centre with four foliate tools, upper cover with tiny foliate gilt device, silk ties (extremities lightly rubbed, headcaps and corners more heavily, hinges loose but holding). Provenance : Antonio Victory (ink ownership inscription on front pastedown dated 'Livorna [i.e. Livorno] 5 Marzo 1802').
ROUX, Joseph (1834-1905), publisher. Carte de la Mer Mediteranée en Douze Feuilles . Marseille: 1764. 2° (unfolding to approximately 607 x 820 mm). 12 engraved charts mounted on guards. (Tiny marginal worming, more extensive at gutter on last 2 charts, tiny puncture hole to last 3 charts, some faint staining to chart VII, chart XI lightly browned, some faint soiling to others.) Contemporary calf, covers blindstamped with outer frame and corners decorated with foliate tools, repeated in centre with four foliate tools, upper cover with tiny foliate gilt device, silk ties (extremities lightly rubbed, headcaps and corners more heavily, hinges loose but holding). Provenance : Antonio Victory (ink ownership inscription on front pastedown dated 'Livorna [i.e. Livorno] 5 Marzo 1802'). Joseph Roux owned a chart-publishing and selling business in Marseilles during the middle and latter part of the eighteenth century. A copy of this atlas was used aboard Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, in 1802 and 1803--a fact which shows that the Royal Navy was relying on foreign privately printed charts even after Alexander Dalrymple had established the Admiralty Hydrographic Office in 1795. NMM III, 267; Phillips Atlases 195.