Depot de la Marine
1880

Antique chart of East Java and the Madura Strait

Ile de Java 3eme Feuille. Partie Orientale depuis le Detroit de Sourabaya et L'ile Sempou jusqua au Detroit de Baly, Detroits de Madura, de Baly, de Lombok et d'Allas…

DESCRIPTION: Antique French sea chart of east Java, Indonesia with the Strait of Madura, Lombok, Bali (Baly), and the Kangean Archipelago. A very attractive, large and clean antique nautical chart with finely-engraved detailed togography.

This chart was first issued by France's Depot de la Marine in 1862 and re-issued here with corrections in 1880. After an earler chart by Lt. Swann of the Royal Maraine Hollandaise.The Depot de la Marine was established in 1720 under the French Ministry of the Navy to collect, preserve, and publish nautical charts, sailing directions, and maritime intelligence for the French naval service. Its purpose was both archival and practical: to centralize geographic knowledge gathered from voyages, surveys, and colonial administration, and to convert that information into standardized charts for navigation. Over the eighteenth century the Depot became the principal hydrographic authority of France, issuing engraved sea charts that incorporated data from naval expeditions, colonial outposts, and scientific voyages.

Following the French Revolution, the institution was reorganized and its chart production expanded, particularly during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as global maritime competition intensified. The Depot de la Marine supervised official surveys, revised earlier charts, and maintained copperplates for continued reissue as coastal knowledge improved. In 1886 it was formally reorganized as the Service hydrographique de la Marine, the predecessor of today’s French hydrographic office. Charts bearing the Depot imprint remain important records of French naval activity, colonial expansion, and the technical development of European hydrography.

CREATOR: Depot de la Marine

PUBLICATION DATE: 1880

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: Indonesia

BODY OF WATER: Java Sea

CONDITION: Very good. Strong. Clean. Supple. Should mat and frame nicely. Almost perfect except for an area at the extreme bottom left corner that shows browning in the margin and paper weakness near the outer edge.

COLORING: None except lighthouse are highlighted in yellow.

ENGRAVER: Francois

SIZE: 37 " x 24 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0

PRICE: $450

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