Carte De L’isle De La Martinique Old map Bellin 1758
Title: Carte De L’isle De La Martinique. Pour server a l’Histoire Generale des Voyages Echelle de Lieues Marines de France et d’Angleterre de 20 au Deg. Par M. Bellin Ing. De la Marine 1758.
History in maps of Martinique.
Description: Detailed old antique map of Martinique France Caribbean, copperplate engraved with hand coloring and an decorative title cartouche.
Biography: Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772). Bellin was born in Paris, and entered the Naval Chart and Plan Depot in 1721. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, cartographer and geographer of the Navy. Also member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes (dominated by Voltaire and Montesquieu), and member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. Over a 50 year career, he produced a large number of sea charts, maps, and sea-atlases of the world, e.g., French Neptune (1753), Map of North America (1755), French Hydrography (1756) le Petit Atlas maritime (1764) an collection of maps and plans of the four parts of the world, in five volumes and New method for learning geography (1769). Bellins country and sea maps based on the documents of the Naval Chart Depot were also issued in Histoire générale des voyages (15 vols., Paris, 1746-1759), continued by Father Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (Abbe Prevost ) and other writers.
Size: Sheet app.: 36 x 26cm. 14 x 10.25 inches. Image app.: 30 x 20 cm. 12 x 7.75 inches. Condition: Very good, light browned paper edges. A Certificate of Authenticity ( COA ) will be supplied on request. We ship our antique items across the world.
