
Carte Des Isles de Java, Sumatra, Borneo &a.: Bellin c. 1760
Title: Carte Des Isles de Java, Sumatra, Borneo &c. Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: c. 1760 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: 102140 Carte Des Isles de Java, Sumatra, Borneo &a. Les Détroits de la Sonde Malaca et Banca Golphe de Siam &a. Par N. Bellin Ingr. de la Marine. "Map of the Islands Of Java, Sumatra, Borneo &a. The Sunda, Malaca, and BancaStraits, Gulf of Siam &a. By N. Bellin Engineer of the Navy." Map of present-day Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. 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