A fine classic early large scaled map of Barbados. Campbell identifies two issues without giving priority but it is our understanding that this example is the earlier of the two. The map was published by the French Hydrographical Office, the Dépôt de la Marine, and included in the sea atlas entitled ‘Hydrographie Francoise’. The mapmaker was Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), one of the most important and prolific French cartographers of the mid-eighteenth century. The Dépôt des Cartes et Plans was founded in 1720 and the following year Bellin began working for them as the first Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine and became Royal Hydrographer. With access to the latest navigational reports, he produced a great many maps and charts of excellent quality compiling atlases of sailing charts for military and official use as well as for commercial publication. With the official stamp of the publishers the Depot de la Marine. Campbell in TMCC 21, no. 33, pl. 14.