Cartes et plans de l'Amerique.

North America

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Dates on maps vary from 1717 to 1744. Title and date annotated in ink within etched title cartouche. Plates numbered in ink with a title often annotated on verso. A composite atlas of maps of North and South America and adjacent islands and oceans predominantly by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, including 17 manuscript maps, of which 8 are signed by Bellin. Phillips, 10267 Includes manuscript table of contents and index. Plate 42a laid in. Plate 43 includes a laid in manuscript overlay of a battle. Rebound spine incorporating original spine title and ornaments and original brown leather covered boards with central embossed gilded insignia.

Date: 1745
Mapmaker / publisher: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
Place: North America
Archive: Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type: map
Sheets: 2
Original size: 7,091 × 5,355 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

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"Cartes et plans de l'Amerique." (1745). Bellin, Jacques Nicolas. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartes_et_plans_de_l%27Amerique._LOC_2003623376-9.jpg

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