Map of Charlestown
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of Charlestown in South Carolina, where the Cooper River and the Ashley River meet. The town is seen surrounded by fortified walls and with a smaller fort across the channel to the south. The surrounding areas is otherwise undeveloped with a single road leading into Charlestown from the northwest.
Plate 37 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.37.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘PORT ET VILLE / DE CHARLES-TOWN / dans la caroline. / Echelle de Trois Cent Toises’.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 37 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.37.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘PORT ET VILLE / DE CHARLES-TOWN / dans la caroline. / Echelle de Trois Cent Toises’.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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