Pilote de la Mer Noire, Traduit de Russe et Mis a Jour ... Cote d'Asie by LA PLANCHE, Hippolyte de - 1884

Paris: Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1884. Tall, thin 8vo. (11 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches). xvi, 128pp. 16 hand-coloured, double-page maps after Manganari, 24 lithographed plates of coastal profiles. With 27 inserted printed slips, updating the work to 1884. Publisher's cloth-backed marbled paper boards, wear to top and tail of spine Rare mariner's pilot to the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea. Based on information from Russian geographer Manganari's famed 1842 Black Sea atlas, this French edition was first published in 1865. Two separate works were issued: the present covering the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea (i.e. present day Turkey and Georgia), and one covering the European coast (first published in 1869). Interestingly, the publisher evidently issued updates to the atlas in the form of small dated slips which were to be inserted on specific pages. A printed list on the front blank conforms with these updates, issued between 1879 and 1884. Both parts of this series are rare, with only two examples of the present recorded in OCLC (Bibliotheque Nationale and the British Library).