1750 - Brazil - JN Bellin
Map 1:
Suite du Bresil Depuis la Baye de Tous les Saints jusqu´a St. Paul (1750)
Condition: Very good condition. Strong print on strong and clean paper with watermark. Hand colored. Ample margins, lower part of the left margin partly extended with old paper. Never folded. Reverse side blank.
Map of the central part of the coast of Brasil, between the Bay of All Saints until Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
Map 2:
Suite du Bresil pour servir a l´Histoire Generale des Voyages (1750)
Condition: Good condition. Strong print on strong and clean paper with watermark. Hand colored. Ample margins, lower margin extended with old paper. Never folded. Reverse side blank.
Map of the soutern part of the coast of Brasil, including Uruguay, with the Rio de la Plata down below.
Maps are discounted to 224 SGD per piece, or 400 SGD for both together combined. The maps are still located in the Netherlands and are scheduled to be in Singapore by end June. Earlier postage can be arranged if needed.
About the carthographer:
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes.
Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. Over a 50-year career, he produced a large number of maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine. His maps of Canada and of French territories in North America (New France, Acadia, Louisiana) are particularly valuable. He died at Versailles.