CARTE DES ISLES QUI SONT A L'EMBOUCHURE DE LA RIVIERE DE CANTON
£160
Bellin's attractive and detailed chart of the islands "at the mouth of the Canton River" (Pearl River Delta), Lantau island, Macao and the southeast coast of Guangdong Province to Shangchuan and Xiachuan Islands.
Decorative with a compass rose and a title cartouche.
From the atlas of Prevost d'Exiles' Histoire Generale des Voyages.
Excellent hand colour
Mint condition
code : M4554
Cartographer : Jacques-Nicolas BELLIN
Date : 1754 Paris
Size : 21.5*32 cms
availability : Available
Price : £160
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.
