Cartes et plans de l'Amerique.

Plate 33

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

the Caribbean

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

map

Original size

10,999 × 7,087 pixels

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