Map of the Lesser Antilles
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 235mm
width (print): 160mm
width (print): 160mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, showing the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Martinique, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla and Guadeloupe are all shown and labelled.
Plate 79 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.79.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘LES / PETITES ANTILLES / ou / Les Isles du Vent / Echelle de Trente Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, with the longitude centred on the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 79 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.79.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘LES / PETITES ANTILLES / ou / Les Isles du Vent / Echelle de Trente Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, with the longitude centred on the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.