Map of Pensacola Bay
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 170mm
width (print): 170mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of Pensacola Bay at the western edge of Florida showing the canal and rivers that feed into the Gulf of Mexico. The city of Pensacola with its fort is visible towards the lower centre of the map.
Plate 42 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.42.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘PLAN DE LA BAYE / DE PENSACOLA / dans la Floride / Echelle d’une Lieue Commune’.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 42 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.42.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘PLAN DE LA BAYE / DE PENSACOLA / dans la Floride / Echelle d’une Lieue Commune’.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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