Map of the Americas
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 465mm
width (print): 305mm
width (print): 305mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the Americas, showing the continents from Cape Horn at the southern tip of Chile to Baffin Bay in the north. The maps shown entirety of South and Central America, with the northwestern potion of North America absent, a note in French explains that ‘On ignore si / dans cette Partie ce / sont des Terres ou / des Mers’ [It is not known whether this area is lands or seas]. Greenland is also included in this map, shown here connected to northern Canada.
Plate 2 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 left: ‘et Tome II. No.2.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘BAYE / DE HUDSON / et Pays Voisins / Eschelle de Cent Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, showing the longitude west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 2 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 left: ‘et Tome II. No.2.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘BAYE / DE HUDSON / et Pays Voisins / Eschelle de Cent Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, showing the longitude west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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