Mannevillette’s Chart of the Bay of Bengal Printed Area Measurement_66.5 x 90 cm sheet size engraved for Thornton’s History and

engraved for Thornton’s History and derived from Noorthouck

map of Liège

Subtitled 'Covers for a small library after the life for the most part

An illustrated record of important events in the annals of Europe

Second edition of the same work (see above entry)

Mannevillette’s Chart of the Bay of Bengal Printed Area Measurement_66.5 x 90 cm sheet size engraved for Thornton’s History andCarte Reduite du Golfe de Bangale DAprs de Mannevillette (1707 1780) was a practical seaman as well as a mapmaker; his sea atlas was published in Paris in 1745 with the backing of the Academie des Sciences under the title Le Neptune Oriental. He continued to revise and augment his charts over the next thirty years, and issued an expanded version of the Atlas and a supplement 1775 81. Condition & Materials Copper engraved chart of the Bay of Bengal,