La Plata River Argentina Uruguay Riviera La Plata Bellin 1758.
Titel: Carte De La Riviera De La Plata.
Description: 18th century atlas map of the mouth of the La Plata River Argentina / Uruguay with Buenos Aires as village. Río de la Plata is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers. The map is hand colored with a nice title cartouche, sandbanks etc. The river was mentioned by the fleet of Francis Drake in 1588 for his world tour.
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.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin's archives are held at the Montreal archives center of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Size: Sheet app.: 14.75 x 10 inches. 37.5 x 26.5 cm. Image app.: 11.25 x 7.5 inches. 28.5 x 19 cm. Condition: Very good, fold as published. A Certificate of Authenticity ( COA ) will be supplied on request.
