Map of the Gulf of Mexico
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 310mm
width (print): 310mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map showing the Gulf of Mexico, Central America, and parts of North and South America. The gulf is shown in the centre of the map, with the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola to the east edge and parts of Mexico including the Yucatán Peninsula to the west.
Plate 47 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.47.’ With a cartouche upper right: ‘CARTE REDUITE / DI GOLPHE DU MEXIQUE / ET DES / ISLES DE L’AMERIQUE / Par M.B. Ingr. de la Marine.’ 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 47 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.47.’ With a cartouche upper right: ‘CARTE REDUITE / DI GOLPHE DU MEXIQUE / ET DES / ISLES DE L’AMERIQUE / Par M.B. Ingr. de la Marine.’ 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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