Map of Jamaica
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 240mm
width (page): 350mm
width (page): 350mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the island of Jamaica, showing named settlements, rivers and mountains, with depths for anchorages. The coast is highlighted in blue.
Plate 56 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.56.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘CARTE DE L’ISLE DE JAMAICA. Echelles de Lieues Marine de France’ [scale of French nautical leagues], with a nought to eight scale. A framing scale shows longitude east of the Paris meridian and northern latitude.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) French hydrographer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 56 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.56.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘CARTE DE L’ISLE DE JAMAICA. Echelles de Lieues Marine de France’ [scale of French nautical leagues], with a nought to eight scale. A framing scale shows longitude east of the Paris meridian and northern latitude.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) French hydrographer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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