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[PUYSÉGUR, Antoine-Hyacinthe-Anne de Chastenet, comte de (1752-1807)]
Le Pilote de L'Isle de Saint-Domingue et des debouquemens de cette isle, comprenant une carte de l'Isle De Saint-Domingue et une carte des debouquemens, depuis la Caye d'Argent jusqu'a la partie Ouest du Placet des Isles Lucayes.
Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1787. Large folio (26 x 20 inches). Letterpress title with woodcut vignette, 18 pp. letterpress text (most printed in two columns). 3 double-page engraved maps or charts, 2 single page engraved map sheets, 2 plates of coastal profiles, the maps and plates all mounted on guards. Expertly bound to style in contemporary French blue marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spine with a large morocco label lettered in gilt.
Very rare: a beautifully-produced atlas recording the results of an official French coastal survey of the island of Hispaniola, with the full complement of seven maps and plates.
Only three copies of this rare marine atlas are recorded as having sold at auction in the past thirty years, and all had only six maps and plates. The two examples listed by OCLC both include the full complement of seven maps and plates (as here).
The text starts with an explanation of the methods that the Comte de Puységur used during the survey as well as his acknowledgment of the help given by various individuals (the coastal profiles, for instance, were drawn up from drawings by M. Ozanne, "Ingénieur-constructeur de la Marine"). This introductory text is followed by detailed notes on the observations made of the positions of the various locations used as a base for the construction of the maps. This is followed by notes on the available anchorages around the island. The text finishes with "Détails du mouvement" of marine chronometers number "28" and letter "A" that were used during the survey.
The maps and plates follow:
1. Carte réduite de l'Isle de St.Domingue ... d'après les observations faites sur la Corvette Vautour en 1784 et 1785, double-page map of Santo Domingo with four integral coastal profiles at top.
2. Carte réduite des débouquements de St.Domingue ... d'après les observations faites sur la Corvette Vautour en 1784 et 1785, double-page sea-chart of the Turks and Caicos Islands and part of the northern coastline of Santo Domingo.
3. Plan de la Baye de l'Acul; Baye de Dame-Marie; Le Port François; Plan du Môle St. Nicolas; Baye des Irois, one page with charts of five anchorages on the coast of Hispaniola.
4. L'Anse a Chouchou; Le Port Paix; Mouillage de Jean-Rabel; La Baye Moustique; Baye de Tiburon; Baye des Gonayves; La Baye du Fond de la Grange; Port a l'Écu; rade de la Basse-Terre, one page with charts of nine anchorages on the coast of Hispaniola
5. coastal profiles of 17 locations on a single page
6. coastal profiles of 19 locations on a single page
7. Carte De La Gonave dressée sur les opérations géométriques faites en 1787 ... par M. de Lieudé de Sepmanville, double-page sea chart of Gonave Island and the Port Au Prince Bay area.
Phillips 2716; OCLC 54243957 (2 copies only)
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#19502 $12,000.00 
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© 2002-2005 Donald A. Heald
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