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Description
Scarce French Atlas of "foreign" ports, published by the French Ministry of Public Works.
The atlas consists of 20 mostly double page and folding maps, including:
- Hamburg
- Hamburg (piers and wharfs)
- Boston
- Charleston
- Rio de Janeiro
- Cardiff and Penart
- Dublin
- Leith
- Southampton
- Sunderland
- Trieste
- Antwerp
- Barcelona
- Genoa
- Livorno
- Messina
- Christiania / Oslo
- Porto (Portugal)
- St. Petersburg
- Stockholm.
There are an additional five maps detailing docks, quays, cranes, machinery and dry docks, etc., including a fine large image of:
- Southampton
- Glasgow/ Clark & Standfield Dock
This is the first volume, which was continued for a number of years in the second half of the 1880s.