Mannevillette’s Map of the Cape Verde Islands Engraver(s)_Joseph àMontalegre numbered in an early hand

numbered in an early hand in upper margin

it also influenced contemporaries such as Jacob Spon and George Wheler

though more mountainous

engraved by Guillaume Delhaye

Mannevillette’s Map of the Cape Verde Islands Engraver(s)_Joseph àMontalegre numbered in an early handCarte des Isles du Cap Verd This chart of the Cape Verde islands was engraved by Guillaume de la Haye. DAprs de Mannevillette (1707 1780) was a practical seaman as well as a mapmaker; his sea atlas was published in Paris in 1745 with the backing of the Academie des Sciences under the title Le Neptune Oriental. He continued to revise and augment his charts over the next thirty years, and issued an expanded version of the Atlas and a supplement 1775 81.