Map of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 225mm
width (print): 360mm
width (print): 360mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the island of Basse-Terre, forming the western half of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean Sea. Numerous buildings are shown by the roads that run along the island’s coastline, with trees and hachures shown further inland to represent the forests and mountains of the island’s interior.
Plate 87 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.87.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘PARTIE OCCIDENTALE / DE L’ISLE DE LA GUADELOUPE. / Appellée la Basse Terre / Echelle de Deux Lieues Communes.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 87 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.87.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘PARTIE OCCIDENTALE / DE L’ISLE DE LA GUADELOUPE. / Appellée la Basse Terre / Echelle de Deux Lieues Communes.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.