Antique Map - Joseph Roux - Harbour Plan - Port of Syracuse / Saragosa - F5

Antique Map - Joseph Roux - Harbour Plan - Port of Syracuse / Saragosa - F5Hand coloured nautical chart of the strait and port of Syracuse. It was published in Joseph Roux's book La Femme (17251793), Recueil des principaux plan des ports et rades de la mer Mditerrane. This portable atlas of Mediterranean port plans was designed as a companion to his important 12 sheet atlas of the Mediterranean, a copy of which Nelson had on board Victory. The map shows depth dimensions and attachment points. This chart was used on HMS

First edition of the extensively illustrated botanical series

which were published in atlases and standalone editions

"Stachys Germanica"

"Fumaria Capreolata"

"Angelica Sylvestris"

"Gymnostomum Curvirostrum"

"Grimmia Forsteri"

The Most Important Maps of West Africa Published in the Sixteenth Century

James McDougal Hart was an American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School

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" which presented the stories from the Old and New Testaments in an illustrative and accessible manner for readers