Map of Sainte-Domingue
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
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height (page): 240mm
width (page): 350mm
width (page): 350mm
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Content object
Description
Map of the French colony of Sainte-Domingue, now Haiti, including the island of Gonâve and part of the island of Tortuga. Neighbouring geography of the south-east of Cuba is also shown, from Guantanamo to Cape Maisi. The map shows named settlements, rivers and mountains, with depths for anchorages. The coast is highlighted in blue.
Plate 67 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.67.’ With a cartouche top left: ‘LA PARTIE FRANCOISE DE L’ISLE DE SAINTE DOMINGUE. Echelles de Lieues Marine de France’ [scale of French nautical leagues], with a nought to fifteen scale. A framing scale show 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 67 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.67.’ With a cartouche top left: ‘LA PARTIE FRANCOISE DE L’ISLE DE SAINTE DOMINGUE. Echelles de Lieues Marine de France’ [scale of French nautical leagues], with a nought to fifteen scale. A framing scale show 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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