Carte des Isles du Cap Verd: Bellin 1746

Title: Carte des Isles du Cap Verd Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1746 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light foxing and age toning, surface dirt Inches: 13 x 9 3/4 [Paper] Centimeters: 33.02 x 24.77 [Paper] Product ID: 102155 Carte des Isles du Cap Verd. Dressée sur les Journaux et les Remarques des plus habiles Navigateurs. Par N. Bellin Ingr. de la Marine 1746.  "Map of the Cape Verde Islands. Drawn up on the Journals and Remarks of the most skillful Navigators. By N. Bellin Engineer of the Navy 1746." Map of the Cape Verde Islands off the east coast of Africa by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Longitude west 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 in