Carte Generale des Costes D'IRLANDE, et des Costes Occidentales D' ANGLETERRE avec une Partie de celles D' ECOSSE.

A magnificent chart of Ireland and the British Coast from Plymouth in Cornwall to Ayr in Scotland. A detailed inset chart of the River Dee as far as Holt is included in the lower right corner.
The map was engraved by H.Van Loon and was originally published in the "Neptune Francois" in Paris in 1693 by Alexis Hubert Jaillot. The "Neptune" was soon pirated by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam and published the same year.
This example is from a later publication of the "Neptune Francois" by J.N.Bellin to whom the original plates passed in an official capacity. The chart is crossed by numerous rhumb lines and includes only coastal detail (no inland towns are named) along with sounding depths and sand banks - a very useful working document.