Carte de la Riviere de la Plata: Bellin c. 1760

Title: Carte de la Riviere de la Plata Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: c. 1760 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good - light age toning, tide marks upper margin, issued center fold Inches: 13 1/8 x 9 5/8 [Paper] Centimeters: 33.34 x 24.45 [Paper] Product ID: 102158 Carte de la Riviere de la Plata. Pour servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages. Echelle Lieues communes de France. Par M. B. Ing. de la Marine. "Map of Río de la Plata. To be used in the General History of Travel. Scale of common leagues of France. By M. Bellin Naval Engineer." Map of Río de la Plata at the border between Argentina and Uruguay by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Labelled cities and regions include Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Longitude west from the Paris Meridian. Appointed hydrographer of the French Navy at the age of eighteen, Bellin eventually became Hydrographer