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Bellin: Antique Map of Moluccan Islands, 1752
Bellin: Antique Map of Moluccan Islands, 1752
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  • Map: Carte Particuliere des Isles Moluques
  • Cartographer: Bellin
  • Place & Date: Paris / 1752/1760
  • Size: 6" x 8 1/2"
  • Condition: b&w; light overall age toning; map mounted on contemporary paper to fit the size of the atlas volume

    Bellin's nicely detailed map of part of the northern Moluccas (North Maluku Islands in present day Indonesia) from the atlas of Prevost d'Exiles' influential collection of travel narratives, Histoire Generale des Voyages. The map encompasses the islands of Herij, Ternate, Tidor (Tidore), Pottebackers, Timor or Mothir (today Moti), Machian (Makian) and Bachian (Bacan), and part of Gilolo Island (today, Halmahera), and is based on Dutch sources.

    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.

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