Copper engraving, 555x820 mm. Excellent specimen, depicting the southern Tyrrhenian Sea with the Italian coast, Sardinia and eastern Corsica, northern Sicily. The note ‘IVe Feuille. Avec Privilege du Roy a Marseille. Chez Joseph Roux Hydrographe du Roy sur le Port a St. Jean 1764'. From: ‘Recueil des principaux plans, des ports, et rades de la mer Mediterranèe...’ The plate constitutes sheet No. 4 of the large map of the Mediterranean in twelve sheets made in Marseille by Joseph Roux in 1764 published in the form of an atlas in 12 plates in which the entire Mediterranean basin and the Sea of Marmara is represented. The work was dedicated to the Minister of War and the Navy, Duke of Choiseul. Nice copy with the usual editorial folds and a scuff under the title.