Map of Eastern North America
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 350mm
width (print): 350mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the east coast of Canada and the northern United States, showing Quebec to the North with New York and Long Island visible in the South. The island of Newfoundland and the Nova Scotia peninsula are shown towards the east side of the map. The five Great Lakes, Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, are shown further inland, towards the west.
Plate 4 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.4.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘LA NOUVELLE FRANCE / ou CANADA / Echelle 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 4 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.4.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘LA NOUVELLE FRANCE / ou CANADA / Echelle 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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