Map of Louisbourg Harbour
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 225mm
width (print): 305mm
width (print): 305mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of Louisbourg Harbour on the southeast coast of what is now Cape Breton Island in the North Atlantic Ocean. The fortifications around the town of Louisbourg are clearly shown, as well as the harbour lighthouse on the opposite side of the bay.
Plate 23 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.23.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘PORT DE / LOUISBOURG / dans l’Isle Royale. / Echelle de Six Cent Toises.’ Inscribed below: ‘Voyez la Carte de l’Isle Royale N. 22.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 23 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.23.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘PORT DE / LOUISBOURG / dans l’Isle Royale. / Echelle de Six Cent Toises.’ Inscribed below: ‘Voyez la Carte de l’Isle Royale N. 22.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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