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D'APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE (JEAN BAPTISTE N.D.) Le Neptune oriental, Paris, Demonville, and Brest, chez Malassis, 1775
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D'APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE (JEAN BAPTISTE N.D.)
Footnotes
The second expanded edition of Le Neptune Oriental by D'Après de Mannevillette, "distinguished navigator and one of the first hydrographers of France" (NMM). This copy, in the numbering of the plates, is a variant of the 1775 edition cited in NMM.
The atlas was recovered from the French frigate Amazone by a lieutenant aboard the British frigate Santa Margarita, after a skirmish on the American coast on 29 July 1792. "Captain [Elliot] Salter tacked and stood to meet the Amazone, which did not decline to fight. The battle opened at five, the two ships closing gradually to within pistol shot. At that range they fought for an hour and a quarter before the Amazone struck, with her captain killed, half her men killed or wounded... the main and mizen mast fell just as the flag was hauled down... A lieutenant and sixty-eight men were sent to take possession of the prize" (William Laid Clowes, The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Time to the Present).
Provenance: The French frigate Amazone; "Lieut. James Rose of the Santa Margarita taken from the Le Amazone July the 29 1792", inscription inside upper cover; Rose family (of Co. Limerick) bookplate, with motto "Non Sine Sente Rosa".





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