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This beautifully engraved sea chart was issued undoubtedly to accompany the first main edition of Bellin’s ‘Hydrographie Francoise’. Bellin is most noted for his excellent contribution to marine cartography. This example focuses on the Gold Coast of Africa and extends southwards to take in the Island of St. Thomas on the equator. Shirley BL M.Bell 2a no. 23.
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas
Carte Generale de la Coste de Guinee depuis la Riviere de Sierra Leona jusqu'au Cap de Lopez Gonsalvo ...
Paris, 1750
550 x 890 mm., recent wash colour, printed on fine thick paper, with two further folds to facilitate its placement in the atlas, that in the lower left repaired, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 4384
£ 275