MORTIER, P. - Vaisseau du premier rang portant pavillon d'amiral.

Fine double-page engraved plate of a naval vessel, with the various parts of the ship numbered and identified. From Mortier's "Neptune François".
From Mortier's famous maritime Atlas "Neptune François". Engraved by Jan van Vianen after a design by Henri Sbonski de Passebon.
Henri Sbonski de Passebon was born in 1637 in Sedan, France.

Passebon was the descendant of a noble family originally from Poland. He was born to a distinguished father, Jean-Francois Sbonski-Passebon, who was Duc de Bouillon, Marshall of the Royal Camps and Armies, and Prevost of the province of Haut & Bas Limousin. Henri had two brothers- David, who died at a young age and Frederic, a Regimental Colonel serving in Holland. Henri married Margueritte de Brousson in October 1678 and had two sons, one of whom Henry Sbonski de Passebon II also served in the Corps des Galeres.

Sbonski de Passebon served in the Corps des Galeres of Louis XIV for more than 30 years, rising to the rank of Captain in 1696.
Passebon died at Marseilles in January 1705.