Naples ; Malta. Maps

London, 1801. Fine. Two maps published on one sheet, with fine original hand color. Title and location printed below. published in London in 1801. Size of impression 21 x 33 cm. The maps are one of twelve sheets in the SERRES, J. T. re issue of " The Little Sea Torch, or True Guide for Coasting Pilots: by which they are clearly instructed how to navigate along the coasts of England, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Sicily; the isles of Malta, Corsica, Sardinia and other in the Straits, and of the Coast of Barbary; from Cape Bon to the Cape de Verde. Enriched with upwards of one hundred appearances of headlands and lighthouses. Together with Plans of the Principal Harbours. Also a table of soundings, and various explanatory remarks. The whole forming a Work of the greatest Utility to Seamen, and peculiarly calculated to instruct the curious Inquirer into those Subjects that are connected with Marine Geography." This was Translated from the French of Le Sieur Bougard, who was first published in 1684 , but adds corrections and additions.