1750 Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia
In good condition. Folds as issued. Right margin was broadened at the top. Hand-coloured.
Copper engraving published in Prevost's "Histoire de Voyage". Published in Paris, ca. 1750.
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.
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