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Nord–Quest de L’Amerique old map Canada Hudson Bay. Bellin 1753

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Hudson Bay Canada Nord–Quest de L’Amerique Bellin map 1753

Title: Carte des parties du Nord–Quest de L’Amerique…

Description: Old interesting map of the Hudson's Bay Canada with routes of Middleton and Ellisin in 1742 and 1746.
Detailed copperplate engraved old map with hand coloring.

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.

Sheet app.: 30 x 25 cm. 11.75 x 9.75 inches.
Image app.: 27 x 20.5 cm. 10.75 x 8 inches.
Condition: A nice example of an antique map with a widened right edge.