Map of the Northeastern United States
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 330mm
width (print): 375mm
width (print): 375mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the Northeast coast of the United States, showing areas now included in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont in New England, as well as New York and New Jersey. Penobscot Bay on the coast of Maine can be seen at the top right of the map, with Long Island and the city of New York seen towards the middle. Lake Ontario is visible at the upper left, by the cartouche, and the city of Philadelphia is shown towards the lower left.
Plate 29 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.29.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘CARTE DE LA / NOUVELLE ANGLETERRE / NEW YORK / PENSILVANIE / ET NOUVEAU JERSAY / Suivant les Carte Angloises / Echelle de Vingt cinq Lieues Communes.’ 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 29 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.29.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘CARTE DE LA / NOUVELLE ANGLETERRE / NEW YORK / PENSILVANIE / ET NOUVEAU JERSAY / Suivant les Carte Angloises / Echelle de Vingt cinq Lieues Communes.’ 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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