Michelot and Bremond
1728

Plan de la Ville et Port de Colioure

Plan de la Ville et Port de Colioure (Collioure)

DESCRIPTION: Fine antique print with a depiction and plan of the harbor and village of Colioure (Collioure), in Southern France near the border of Spain. Features include Fort Saint-Elme, Convent de Jacobins, the Chateau Royal and l'Ermitage. Thick Vauban-designed defensive walls are shown surrounding the Chateau and village.

This nautical chart / plan was produced ca. 1730 by French hydrographer and pilot of the French royal galley "La Reale" Henry Michelot. The port plan was one of 37 original plans published in Marseilles by Michelot and Laurens Bremond in a volume titled "Recueil de Plusieurs Plans de Ports et Rades de la Mer Mediterranée." Later in the 18th century the plans were copied and reprinted by Roux, Allezard, Kitchin and others.

Henry Michelot and Laurens Bremond


Henri Michelot was an early 18th century French cartographer with a close connection to the sea. Michelot, self-described Hydrographer and Pilot of the Galere Royale or Royal Galley, was then part of a corps of approximately 40 galleys (galeres) or oared sailing vessels stationed in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coast. In the Mediterranean, galleys were based primarily at the arsenal in Marseilles, France. Galleys were typically rigged with the triangular Mediterranean "Lateen" sail(s).

Bookseller and royal hydrographer Laurent Bremond "Hydrographe du Roi et de la Ville" sold charts and maritime books from his establishment in Marseille located near the port at the corner of Reboul street ( "au Coin de Reboul").

The output of Michelot and Bremond, from approximately 1715 through 1730 consisted of an atlas of 16 small-scale charts, a port book of 37 large-scale charts, and a coast pilot of the Mediterranean: "Portulan de la Mer Mediterranee, ou Guide des Pilotes Cotiers." Their work (the "Portulan" was published in several languages at least until 1805) and was a primary source of navigational information about the Mediterranean for years. The charts of Michelot and Bremond were often copied by others such as Kitchin and Roux.

CREATOR: Michelot and Bremond

PUBLICATION DATE: 1728

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: France

BODY OF WATER: Mediterranean

CONDITION: Very good.  Paper only very slightly tanned but strong with good platemark. Some staining and foxing mostly in bottom and left margins.

COLORING: Modern detailed color on the compass rose.

ENGRAVER: P. Starck-man

SIZE: 9 " x 6 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 4

PRICE: $300

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