Carta dell'Oceano Orientale o Mar delle Indie…
| Reference: | S4890 |
| Author | Jacques Nicolas BELLIN |
| Year: | 1757 ca. |
| Zone: | Indian Ocean |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 480 x 355 mm |
€400.00
| Reference: | S4890 |
| Author | Jacques Nicolas BELLIN |
| Year: | 1757 ca. |
| Zone: | Indian Ocean |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 480 x 355 mm |
€400.00
Description
Nautical chart showing the Indian Ocean, with the eastern coasts of South Africa, India, Indochina, parts of the East Indies and the western coasts of Australia.
Map drawn by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, published as a plate of the French edition of 1757 of "Histoire General des Voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre s" by Antoine François Prévost, better known under the name of abbé Prévost.
The collection, in several volumes, is printed for the first time A Paris: chez Didot, 1746-1753.
The complete work - in 12th - will continue the publications until it reaches, in 1789, a consistency of 80 volumes.
A colossal encyclopedic research work carried out by the author, which also deserves credit for having published numerous unpublished stories about the discovery of Australia by the Dutch and reports of journeys across the Pacific, including those of Magellan and Schouten.
The work is accompanied by nearly 300 illustrations of populations, views, and costumes from around the world and by 113 splendid maps, by Jaques-Nicolas Bellin.
Copperplate, with fine later hand colour, in good conditions.
Jacques Nicolas BELLIN (1703 - 1772)
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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) was one of the most important cartographers of the 18th century.
With a career spanning some 50 years, Bellin is best understood as transitional mapmaker spanning the gap
between 18th and early 19th century cartographic styles. His long career as Hydrographer and Ingénieur
Hydrographe at the French Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine resulted in hundreds of high quality
nautical charts of practically everywhere in the world. Bellin's work focuses on function and accuracy
tending in the process to be less decorative than the earlier 17th and 18th century cartographic work. In
addition to numerous maps and charts published during his lifetime, many of Bellin's maps were updated
(or not) and published posthumously. He was succeeded as Ingénieur Hydrographe by his student, also a prolific and influential cartographer, Rigobert Bonne.
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Jacques Nicolas BELLIN (1703 - 1772)
|
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) was one of the most important cartographers of the 18th century.
With a career spanning some 50 years, Bellin is best understood as transitional mapmaker spanning the gap
between 18th and early 19th century cartographic styles. His long career as Hydrographer and Ingénieur
Hydrographe at the French Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine resulted in hundreds of high quality
nautical charts of practically everywhere in the world. Bellin's work focuses on function and accuracy
tending in the process to be less decorative than the earlier 17th and 18th century cartographic work. In
addition to numerous maps and charts published during his lifetime, many of Bellin's maps were updated
(or not) and published posthumously. He was succeeded as Ingénieur Hydrographe by his student, also a prolific and influential cartographer, Rigobert Bonne.
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