Bellin: Antique Map of Venezuela, Trinidad, 1754
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Bellin's idetailed map of the northeastern part of Venezuela, including the islands of Margarita, Trinidad and the Grenadines, from Prevost d'Exiles' Histoire Generale des Voyages. Several settlements along the Venezuelan coast, including Valencia, Caracas (here called ‘Leon de Caracas’) and Cumana are marked. Includes a number of geographical notes and an elegant title cartouche.
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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b&w; overall age toning and some spotting; a light water stain in the left margin; a tiny puncture hole in the lower left quadrant; margins extended with contemporary paper to fit the size of the atlas volume?
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Bellin: Antique Map of Venezuela, Trinidad, 1754
Estimate $60 - $70
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