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Bellin/Jefferys: Antique Map of Canada & Islands, 1746
Bellin/Jefferys: Antique Map of Canada & Islands, 1746
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  • Map: A new chart of the coast of New England, Nova Scotia, New France or Canada, with the islands of Newfoundl’d. Cape Breton, St. John’s &c.
  • Publication Date: 1746
  • Authors: Gentleman’s Magazine, N. Bellin with Thomas Jefferys
  • Publisher: Gentleman’s Magazine
  • Size: Folio – 13.5 H x 18.5 W Inches

    Done from the original published in 1744, at Paris by Mons’r. N. Bellin, Engineer to the Marine Office. This chart is most humbly Dedicated to the Brit’sh Merch’ts trading to North America by the Editor.Folded folio removed from the octavo Gent’s Magazine. These were not magazines like those of today but octavo books bound up from monthly parts. In plexiglas frame.

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin(1703-1772) was a French cartographer, hydrographer and geographer. Born in Paris, Bellin was a member of the French intellectual group, the philosophes, a member of the Academie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. His career spanned over five decades in which he produced a large number of maps for the Dépot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine.

    Thomas Jefferys (1719-1771) was the Royal Cartographer to King George III and the leading map supplier of his time.

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    Good – Tearing at left margin
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    Bellin/Jefferys: Antique Map of Canada & Islands, 1746

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