Map Cartes et plans de l'Amerique. Cartes geograp Ameriqu

Title

• Cartes et plans de l'Amerique.

Other Title

• Cartes geograp Ameriqu

Names

• Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772.

Created / Published

• [Paris? : s.n.], 1745.

Headings

• -  Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Western Hemisphere
• -  America

Genre

• Composite atlases
• Early maps
• Manuscript maps

Notes

• -  Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings.
• -  Dates on maps vary from 1717 to 1744.
• -  Title and date annotated in ink within etched title cartouche. Plates numbered in ink with a title often annotated on verso.
• -  A composite atlas of maps of North and South America and adjacent islands and oceans predominantly by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, including 17 manuscript maps, of which 8 are signed by Bellin.
• -  List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 10267
• -  Includes manuscript table of contents and index.
• -  Plate 42a laid in. Plate 43 includes a laid in manuscript overlay of a battle.
• -  Rebound spine incorporating original spine title and ornaments and original brown leather covered boards with central embossed gilded insignia.
• -  Most maps in French. Some maps in Latin, and one map each in English, Dutch and German.

Medium

• 1 atlas ([4] l., 59 leaves of plates) : 73 maps (some folded, mostly hand col.) ; 57 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• G1100 .C3 1745

Repository

• Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3290m.gct00049

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2003623376

Online Format

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LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2003623376

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