Carte de l'Acadie, Isle Royale, et Païs Voisins: Bellin 1757

Title: Carte de l'Acadie, Isle Royale, et Païs Voisins Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1757 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - age toning Inches: 13 1/2 x 9 3/4 [Paper] Centimeters: 34.29 x 24.77 [Paper] Product ID: 102135 Carte de l'Acadie, Isle Royale, et Païs Voisins. Pour servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages. Par M. B. Inr. de la Marine. 1757. Echelle de Lieues communes de France. "Map of Acadia, Isle Royale, and Neighboring Countries. To be used in the General History of Travel. By M. B. Engineer of the Navy. 1757. Scale of common leagues of France." Map of Île-Royale, a French colony in present-day Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Canada. Published by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Appointed hydrographer of the French Navy at the age of eighteen, he eventually became Hydrographer to the King in 1741. He published nume