Map of Hudson Bay
Date
1763
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 340mm
width (print): 340mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of Hudson Bay showing the regions of Quebec and Labrador to the east, Ontario to the south and the regions of Manitoba and Nunavut to the west. The Hudson strait is also visible towards the north on the map, below this strait two dotted lines show a long chain of mountains.
Plate 3 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.3.’ With a cartouche upper right: ‘CARTE / DE/ L’AMERIQUE / et / DES MERS VOISINES’. 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 3 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.3.’ With a cartouche upper right: ‘CARTE / DE/ L’AMERIQUE / et / DES MERS VOISINES’. 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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