Title of the map:

"OCEAN ATLANTIQUE. COTE OUEST DE FRANCE ET COTE NORD D'ESPAGNE. DU CAP FERRET A LLANES d'après les cartes de BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRE levées en 1826 et les Cartes de la Marine Espagnole publiées en 1895. Service hydrographique de la Marine 1898."

Very large sea chart which extends from Cap Ferret in France to the Pays Basque and Llanes in Spain, engraved by Lorsignol. The text is by Cackebeck. 

On the margin, the watermark "Arches. Service hydrographique de la marine". 

Condition : good condition, handed colored.

Edition : Paris, edited in 1905 (1st edition 1898), from Service Hydrographique de la Marine.

The Depot de la Marine, also named as Depot des cartes et plans de la Marine, was the official institution of maps in France. It has been created by Philippe d'Orléans, named Le Regent (1674-1723). 

This institution was the contributor of the knowledge in France about marine and navigation. Most of mapmakers worked for it, as Nicholas Bellin, Buache, Bauche, Bonne and Beautemps-Beaupré. The Depot became in 1806 the Naval Hydrographic service, and still exists today with the name SHOM (service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine).

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