France.- Le Rouge (George Louis) Recueil des Cotes Maritimes de France, first edition, double-page engraved pictorial title, folding key map and 50 double-page coastal maps, some damp-staining and mottling, mostly to corners, later calf-backed marbled boards with vellum corners, [Phillips Atlases 5998; Tooley p.44], 4to, Paris, 1757.

⁂ Scarce atlas of French coastal charts by Le Rouge who, according to Tooley, "specialized more on atlases of plans and fortifications. He was educated as a military engineer." This copy has a contemporary ownership inscription of "E.P. Sole" (or possibly E.S. Pole) on title and recto of key map; beneath the latter, in another contemporary hand "found at Cancale on our march to attack St. Malos. 1758". This refers to the raid on St. Malo in June 1758 when an amphibious British naval expedition, under the command of Admiral Howe, landed at Cancale, about 12 miles east of St. Malo in Brittany. Whilst St Malo itself was not attacked, as had been planned, many French privateers and other ships were destroyed before the force withdrew about one week later.