Map of the Northern Leeward Islands
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 225mm
width (print): 325mm
width (print): 325mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the Northern Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, showing Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands.
Plate 82 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.82.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘PETITES ANTILLES / ou / ISLES DU VENT / 3e. Partie / Echelle de Dix 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 82 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.82.’ With a cartouche lower left: ‘PETITES ANTILLES / ou / ISLES DU VENT / 3e. Partie / Echelle de Dix 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.