Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas

Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was a French hydrographer and geographer, and a member of the Royal Society in London. He was appointed chief cartographer to the French navy at the age of 18, and subsequently in 1741 the first Ingénieur hydrographe de la Marine (cartographer to the French Hydrographical Office), in which capacity he was commissioned to survey the coasts of France and later all the known coasts of the world. Of his copious output of maps and sea charts, he is perhaps best known for his maps for Abbe Prevost's L'Histoire Générale des Voyages (1737-1775), of which we stock a good selection below; Neptune François (1753), Hydrographie Françoise (1756-1765, reissued to 1802), and Petit Atlas Français (1763) - reissued as Petit Atlas Maritime (1765). His maps of Canada and of the French North American territories are particularly sought after.

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Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas

'Carte de l'Isle de la Jamaïque'. Jamaica. West Indies. BELLIN 1759 old map

Carte de L'Embouchure de la Rivière de Congo ou de Zayre. BELLIN 1747 old map

'Port et Bourg de Mergui' BELLIN. Myeik, Burma / Myanmar c1764 old antique map

'Carte de l'Isle St. Christophe'. Saint Kitts/St Christopher. BELLIN 1760 map

'Costes de Perse, Gusarat, et Malabar'. Indian Ocean. Pakistan. BELLIN 1758 map

'Tartarie Occidentale'. Western Tartary. N China & Mongolia. BELLIN 1758 map

Río or 'Riviere de la Plata'. River Plate. Argentina & Uruguay. BELLIN 1758 map

'Detroit de Le Maire' Strait, Tierra del Fuega, Argentina. BELLIN 1758 old map

Partie de la Mer Glaciale…Novelle Zemble' Novaya Zemlya Siberia. BELLIN 1758 map

'Carte du Kamtchatka'. Kamchatka, Russia. BELLIN 1758 old antique map chart

'Côte Occidentale d’Afrique…' NW Africa Madeira Canaries Senegal BELLIN 1746 map

'Plan du Fort de Mozambique' Island. Fort Sao Sebastiao. BELLIN 1746 old map

'Isle d’Ormus ou de Jerun'. Iran. Hormuz Island, Persian Gulf. BELLIN 1746 map

'Ville de Diu'. India. City town & fortress plan, Daman & Diu. BELLIN 1746 map

'La Coste d’Arabie, Mer Rouge & Golfe de Perse'. Arabia Oman. BELLIN 1746 map

'Coste Occidentale d’Afrique…' West Africa. Gulf of Guinea. BELLIN 1746 map

'Carte exacte de la Côte du Cap-Verd'. Cap Vert, Dakar, Senegal. BELLIN 1746 map

'Coste Occidentale d’Afrique…' Namibia South Africa Angola coast BELLIN 1746 map

'Coste Orientale d’Afrique…' South Africa. Mozambique channel. BELLIN 1746 map

'Baye de Sierra Leona'. North shore of Freetown, Sierra Leone. BELLIN 1746 map

'Coste Orientale d’Afrique…' East Africa Kenya Tanzania Somalia. BELLIN 1746 map

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