Map of Northwest Florida
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 340mm
width (print): 340mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the coast of Northwest Florida, showing the bays and rivers that lead into the Gulf of Mexico. A number of towns are also shown towards the eastern edge of the map. This salient coastal region is often referred to as the Florida panhandle.
Plate 41 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.41.’ With a cartouche lower centre: ‘CARTE / DE LA COSTE DE LA FLORIDE / depuis la Baye de la Mobile jusqu’aux / Cayes de St. Martin. / Echelle de 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 41 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.41.’ With a cartouche lower centre: ‘CARTE / DE LA COSTE DE LA FLORIDE / depuis la Baye de la Mobile jusqu’aux / Cayes de St. Martin. / Echelle de 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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