Map of Boston Harbor
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 225mm
width (print): 160mm
width (print): 160mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map showing the location of the settlement of Boston amongst the many peninsulas and islands that occupy this estuary of the larger Massachusetts Bay. The town of Boston can be seen towards the northwest of the map, just south of Charlestown. Other settlement are also shown on the map including Weymouth and Hingham in the south, which are both now part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
Plate 30 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.30.’ With the map title below: ‘CARTE DE LA BAYE DE BASTON / Située dans la Nuouvelle Angleterre. / Echelle de eux Lieues Communes.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 30 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.30.’ With the map title below: ‘CARTE DE LA BAYE DE BASTON / Située dans la Nuouvelle Angleterre. / Echelle de eux Lieues Communes.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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