Map of the Carolinas
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 355mm
width (print): 355mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the coastline of North Carolina and South Carolina on the North Atlantic Ocean. The names of the major rivers and settlements are marked on the map, including Charlestown towards the lower edge.
Plate 36 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.36.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘LA / CAROLINE / dans L’Amerique Septentrionale / Suivant les Cartes Angloises / Echelle de Vingt Lieues Com̃unes’. 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 36 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.36.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘LA / CAROLINE / dans L’Amerique Septentrionale / Suivant les Cartes Angloises / Echelle de Vingt Lieues Com̃unes’. 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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