Map of Maryland and Virginia
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 200mm
width (print): 300mm
width (print): 300mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the east coast of the United States showing the area now covered by the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. Philadelphia is shown towards the upper right of the map, Williamsburg can be seen towards the lower edge.
Plate 35 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.35.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘CARTE / DE LA / VIRGINIE / MARI-LAND &a / Tirée des Meilleures Cartes Angloises / Echelle de 25 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 35 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.35.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘CARTE / DE LA / VIRGINIE / MARI-LAND &a / Tirée des Meilleures Cartes Angloises / Echelle de 25 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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