SCARCE FADEN MAP OF CAPD'ANTIBES AND CANNES

PLAN OF THE ISLES STE MARGUERITE WITH THE ROAD OF GOURJAN..

£135

Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1793 William Faden's copper engraved sae chart or nautical map of the Bay of Cannes with the Iles of Sainte-Marguerite & Sain-Honorat.

The map notes the cities of Cannes & Antibes, as well as reliefs, bays, soundings and depths.

A decorative title carouche, a fleur-de-lis radiating rhumb lines .

Excellent colour

Very good condition

William Faden (1749-1836) was the most prominent London mapmaker and publisher of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.