Map of Asia
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 235mm
width (print): 235mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of the continent of Asia showing the Arabian Peninsula to the west, Siberia to the north, the Japanese archipelago to the East and the Indian Ocean to the south. There are some inaccuracies with this eighteenth-century map including the orientation of the Japanese island of Honshu and the island of New Guinea shown as though attached to the continent of Australia.
Plate 2 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.3, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome III. No.2.’ With a cartouche on the right: ‘L’ASIE / Echelle de Quatre Cent Lieues.’ The framing scale is in French nautical leagues east of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 2 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.3, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome III. No.2.’ With a cartouche on the right: ‘L’ASIE / Echelle de Quatre Cent Lieues.’ The framing scale is in French nautical leagues east 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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