Antique Print-SEA CHART-GREECE-ATHENS-METHANA-SPETSES-Depot de la Marine-1850

Price: € 289,50

Subject: Antique print, titled: ''Carte des Golfes d''Athenes et de Nauplie […].'' - A coastal map of the coast of mainland Greece, with Athens in the top edge, and the North edge of the island Kithira in the lower edge. The island Falkonera in the lower right of the image area. With depth soundings and coastal towns and geographical features indicated along the coast.

Condition: Good, given age. Original middle fold, as issued. Lower margin quite soiled. A stain in the top margin. Small paper damage and a small tear in the top margin (closed with acid-free archival tape). An ink stamp in the right margin. A dampstain in the top margin and one in the top right edge of the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Engraving on hand laid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 68.3 x 101 cm. The image size is ca. 59.1 x 88 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 26.9 x 39.8 inch. The image size is ca. 23.3 x 34.6 inch.

Part Number: 64363

Location: GK-151

Description: Published by the Depot de le Marine, 1850, based on the map by Copeland and Graves. Lettering by J.M. Hacq and V. Carre.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'C.E. Collin' after 'Depot de la Marine'. Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine (1720 - present), often called the Depot de Marine, was a French hydrographic mapping organization founded in 1720. Much like the U.S. Coast Survey, the British Admiralty, and the Spanish Deposito Hydrografico, the Depot was initiated as a storehouse and distribution center of existing nautical and marine charts. Eventually the Depot initiated its on mapping activities in an attempt to improve and expand upon existing material. Some of the well known hydrograhers / cartographers in the development of Depot were Jacques Nicholas Bellin and Riobert Bonne.