MICHELOT, H. / BREMOND, L. - Plan de la Ville et Port d'Antibe.

An attractive chart centered on Antibes. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des ports et rades de la Mer Méditerranée.. 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.