TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS BAHAMAS CUBA 1787 DÉPÔT MARINE VERY LARGE ANTIQUE CHART

Description

TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS BAHAMAS CUBA 1787 DÉPÔT MARINE VERY LARGE ANTIQUE CHART
TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS BAHAMAS CUBA 1787 DÉPÔT MARINE VERY LARGE ANTIQUE CHART
Description
Carte Réduite des débouquemens de St. Domingue Levée, Dressée et Publiée par ordre du Roi Sous le Ministere de Mr. le M.al de Castries, Ministre et Secretaire d'Etat ayant le département de la Marine D'après les Observations faites sur la Corvette de Vautour en 1784 et 1785 Par M. le C.te de Chastenet-Puisegue Major des V.aux du Roi de l'Académie de Marine. 1787.
Description:
Striking and highly detailed fine large-format 1787 Dépôt de la Marine
's
attractive original copper engraved sea chart or nautical map
centered on the Turks & Caicos Islands and the Southern Islands of the Bahamas.
Fine, large-scale chart covers Hispaniola, Turks & Caicos Islands, Lower Bahamas, and the eastern end part of Cuba.
Extends north to Rum Cay, San Salvador Island and the southern part of Long Island.  Crooked Island, the Inagua Islands, the Plana Cays and Mayaguana are all shown
.
A simple title cartouche and a fleur-de-lis radiating rhumb lines complete the map
.
Date:
1787 ( dated )
Dimension:
Paper size approx.:
cm 92,8 x 58,8
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map contemporary handcolored. Margin to the top cut very shortly. Small lower margin. Short lateral margins. Lower right corner partially missing, redone and hanwritten, as you can see in the images. Small foxing. Map professionally washed and restored. Conditions are as you can see in the images
.
Cartographers:
The Dépôt de la Marine, known more formally as the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine, was the central charting institution of France. The centralization of hydrography in France began in earnest when Jean-Baptiste Colbert became First Minister of France in 1661. Under his watch, the first Royal School of Hydrography began operating, as did the first survey of France’s coasts (1670-1689). In 1680, Colbert consolidated various collections of charts and memoirs into a single assemblage, forming the core of sources for what would become the Dépôt.
The Dépôt itself began as the central deposit of charts for the French Navy. In 1720, the Navy consolidated its collection with those government materials covering the colonies, creating a single large repository of navigation. By 1737, the Dépôt was creating its own original charts and, from 1750, they participated in scientific expeditions to determine the accurate calculation of longitude.
In 1773, the Dépôt received a monopoly over the composition, production, and distribution of navigational materials, solidifying their place as the main producer of geographic knowledge in France.  Dépôt-approved charts were distributed to official warehouses in port cities and sold by authorized merchants. The charts were of the highest quality, as many of France’s premier mapmakers worked at the Dépôt in the eighteenth century, including Philippe Bauche, Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Rigobert Bonne, Jean Nicolas Buache, and Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré.
The Dépôt continued to operate until 1886, when it became the Naval Hydrographic Service. In 1971, it changed names again, this time to the Naval and Oceanographic Service (SHOM). Although its name has changed, its purpose is largely the same, to provide high quality cartographic and scientific information to the France’s Navy and merchant marine.
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