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Bellin: Antique Map of South Pacific & Australia, 1753
Bellin: Antique Map of South Pacific & Australia, 1753
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  • Title/Content of Map: Carte Reduite de la Mer du Sud Pour Servir a l'Histoire generale des Voyages
  • Date Printed: 1753
  • Cartographer: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
  • Size (inches): 14 x 8

    Fine 18th-century antique French map of the South Pacific showing recent discoveries as of mid century: Australia's posited eastern coastline is virtually featureless, running from New Guinea to Tasmania without a break. Only a small section of the western coast New Zealand is marked, the rest unknown. The Americas are shown from Baja California through Central America and the western coastline of South America including the Straits of Magellan and Cape Horn. Published in a French edition of L'Abbe Prevost's "Histoire Générale des Voyages", less than twenty years before Captain Cook's famous voyage.

    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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  • Condition
    Good Three vertical folds as issued. Light bowning at one fold. Clean without major issues.
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    Bellin: Antique Map of South Pacific & Australia, 1753

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