Carte de la Baye de Hudson. Par N. Bellin Ingenieur de la Marine.
Place Published: [Paris]
Date Published: 1744
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: No binding
First Edition. Paper flat size: 11-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches to the neat-line with right border having #3 sideways. Was folded, now flat and has been cleaned and deacidified, with 1/2 x 4-1/4 inch top left border lacking, four very small hole on bottom border repaired, otherwise, good condition. Engraved by Dheulland.
Kershaw II, 423, p.81
The map was produced for Charlevoix's 1744 Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin was one of the most important and proficient French cartographers of the mid-eighteenth century. He was appointed the first Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine, and also Official Hydrographer to the French King.
Guillaume Dheulland was a French master engraver and draughtsman was most known for his large Plan of Paris in 1756. He also engraved for famous cartographers such as Charlevoix, Bellin, Cassini and Prevost.
Good. Item #8621
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