PLAN DE LA VILLE DE PEKING
£120
Attractive and scarce Dutch Bellin plan of Beijing. Detailed ..showing the walls, gates and inner details of the city of Peking .
The city is divided into the Ville Tartare and Ville Chinoise, with Emperor's Place and French Jesuit and Portuguese Jesuit missions shown in the Ville Tartare and the Temples of the Earth and Sky in the Ville Chinoise.
Excellent hand colour
Very good condition
code : M4253
Cartographer : Jacques-Nicolas BELLIN
Date : 1754 Paris
Size : 22*16.5 cms
availability : Available
Price : £120
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was one of the most important and prolific French cartographers of the mid-eighteenth century, in the service of the French Hydrographical Office. He was appointed the first Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine, and also Official Hydrographer to the French King.
Bellin was responsible for an enormous output of charts and maps. In a large folio format, he issued a volume of sea-charts of France, the Neptune Francois, and several sea-atlases of the World, including the Atlas Maritime and the Hydrographie Francaise. These large charts were amongst the best of the period and continued being reissued throughout the second half of the eighteenth century.
In smaller format, he issued the Petit Atlas Maritime (1764),which contained 580 detailed charts, as well as maps to illustrate l'Abbe Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages (1746-1757). Bellin also produced a substantial number of important separately issued maps, particularly reflecting continuing discoveries and political events in the Americas.
