"Carte Generale de la Coste de Guinee Depuis la Riviere de Sierra Leona Jusqu'au Cap de Lopes Gonsalvo...", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
Subject: Western Africa
Period: 1750 (dated)
Publication: L'Hydrographie Francoise
Color: Hand Color
Size: 21.7 x 34.9
Striking sea chart of the western coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Cape Lopez. Six coastal views and a huge decorative title cartouche fill the interior. The chart is engraved with minute detail including anchorages, navigational hazards, soundings, forts, settlements, and watering places. Bellin, attached to the Depot de la Marine, became hydrographer to the King and a member of the Royal Society of London. He was commissioned to map all the known coasts of the world, resulting in the maps of this superb atlas.
References: Phillips (Atlases) #587.
Condition: A
There is a diagonal printer's crease in map, else near fine.
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Subject: Western Africa
Period: 1750 (dated)
Publication: L'Hydrographie Francoise
Color: Hand Color
Size: 21.7 x 34.9
Striking sea chart of the western coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Cape Lopez. Six coastal views and a huge decorative title cartouche fill the interior. The chart is engraved with minute detail including anchorages, navigational hazards, soundings, forts, settlements, and watering places. Bellin, attached to the Depot de la Marine, became hydrographer to the King and a member of the Royal Society of London. He was commissioned to map all the known coasts of the world, resulting in the maps of this superb atlas.
References: Phillips (Atlases) #587.
Condition: A
There is a diagonal printer's crease in map, else near fine.
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