Map of Boston
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the city of Boston, showing the location of key buildings and its proximity to Charlestown on the other side of the Charles River. A number of smaller islands are also shown within the bay, since absorbed by land reclamation schemes that began in the nineteenth century.
Plate 31 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.31.’ With the map title below: ‘PLANE DE LA VILLE DE BOSTON’.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 31 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.31.’ With the map title below: ‘PLANE DE LA VILLE DE BOSTON’.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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