Map of Acadia
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 310mm
width (print): 310mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the colony of Acadia in New France, showing parts of modern-day Canada including Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and the southeast corner of New Brunswick.
Plate 26 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.26.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘CARTE / DE L’ACADIE / et Pays Voisins / Echelle / de Lieues communes de France.’ The framing scale is in French nautical leagues west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 26 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.26.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘CARTE / DE L’ACADIE / et Pays Voisins / Echelle / de Lieues communes de France.’ The framing scale is in French nautical leagues 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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