La Vera-Cruz Ville du Mexique
| Reference: | MS1633 |
| Author | Jacques Nicolas BELLIN |
| Year: | 1764 ca. |
| Zone: | Vera Cruz |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 185 x 235 mm |
€100.00
| Reference: | MS1633 |
| Author | Jacques Nicolas BELLIN |
| Year: | 1764 ca. |
| Zone: | Vera Cruz |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 185 x 235 mm |
€100.00
Description
Nautical map published in "Le Petit Atlas Maritime Recueil De Cartes et Plans Des Quatre Parties Du Monde", issued in Paris, 1764.
Decorative title cartouche. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Shows settlements.
"Le Petit Atlas Maritime" is probably the best compilation of plans of maritime towns and harbors of its time. According to Tooley, Bellin issued an earlier version of this atlas in 1763 titled Petit Atlas Francois. The Duc de Choiseul provided financial support for the publication of the atlas. J. Arrivet is listed as engraver on the chart index pages and may also have engraved the charts themselves.
Copperplate, outlines colored, in good condition.
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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