Carte des Royaumes de Congo, Angola, et Benguela: Bellin c. 1760

Title: Carte des Royaumes de Congo, Angola, et Benguela Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: c. 1760 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, issued center fold, horizontal trifolds Inches: 13 1/2 x 10 7/8 [Paper] Centimeters: 34.29 x 27.62 [Paper] Product ID: 102165 Carte des Royaumes de Congo, Angola, et Benguela. Avec les Pays Voisins. Tirée de l'Anglois "Map of the Kingdoms of Congo, Angola, and Benguela. With Neighboring Countries. Drawn from the English." Map of the southeast coast of Africa showing parts of present-day Gabon, Angola, Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and Democratic Republic of the Congo. 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 nume