Carte de l'Empire du Japon: Bellin 1752

Title: Carte de l'Empire du Japon Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1752 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, issued center fold, light foxing Inches: 13 1/2 x 9 3/4 [Paper] Centimeters: 34.29 x 24.77 [Paper] Product ID: 102160 Carte de l'Empire du Japon. Pour servir a l'Histoire Générale des Voyages. Par M. Bellin Ingr. de la Marine 1752. "Map of the Empire of Japan. To serve the General History of Travel. By M. Bellin Naval Engineer 1752." Map of Japan published by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Longitude from the Ferro Meridian. Appointed hydrographer of the French Navy at the age of eighteen, Bellin eventually became Hydrographer to the King in 1741. He published numerous sea atlases and charts which would be reprinted into the nineteenth century, as well as many maps depicting French colonial territories in the Ne