MICHELOT, Henri.
De waare wegwyzer voor de stuurlieden en lootzen in de Middelandsche zee.
Leiden, Johan Arnold Langerak (colophon at the end of the main text: printed by Jacques Gueryn, Paris; colophon at the end of the work: printed by Hendrik van Damme, [Leiden]), 1745. 4to. With a large engraved armorial headpiece above the dedication, a folding engraved plate, a letterpress folding table and an engraved volvelle. Contemporary boards, rebacked with calf. [8], 214, [10] pp.
€ 1,500
Very rare first Dutch edition of Henri Michelot's pilot guide to the Mediterranean, originally published in 1703 as Le portulan de partie de la mer Mediterranée and here translated by Willhem van Wassenaer (1712-1789). Van Keulen published an undated second edition. It was also translated into English in 1715 as The Mediterranean pilot.
The pilot guide is followed by a description of Hadley's octant (with an engraved illustration of the instrument), notes on the English Channel by Edmund Halley, comments on new French maps of the Mediterranean and the Aegean archipelago, a letterpress folding table for the conversion of French and Dutch measurements and an engraved volvelle compass.
Lacking the 19 engraved plates with 71 maps. Stains in the first two leaves and the volvelle and the volvelle with a new cord, otherwise in good condition. Cat. NHSM, p. 69 ("1754" ed., erroneously catalogued); Crone Library 499 (3 copies, incl. 1 the same) with maps ; STCN (2 copies); Maritiem digitaal (3 copies, incl. 2 the same); WorldCat (3 copies, incl. 2 the same); for Van Wassenaer: NNBW II, col. 1535.
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