MICHELOT, H. / BREMOND, L. - Plan de la Baye de Ville Franche et de celle de St. Souspir. (Villefranche-sur-Mer)

An attractive chart centered on Villefranche-sur-Mer and including Nice and Eze-Bord-de-Mer. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1730, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des ports et rades de la Mer Mediterranée.. Engraved by P.Starckman.
The chart is exceptionally detailed and includes topographical details, soundings, anchorages, etc.

Originally from Saint-Malo, Henri Michelot served from 1670 on sea as a pilot. He was also professor of hydrography in Marseille. He produced his first charts in the early years of the eighteenth century. Often associated with the brothers Laurent and Jean-Andre Bremond, also cartographers, he published with them in 1718 a chart of the Mediterranean in three leaves.