Carte du Cours du Fleuve de St. Laurent: Bellin 1757

Title: Carte du Cours du Fleuve de St. Laurent Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1757 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good - age toning, light foxing, issued center fold Inches: 13 1/8 x 9 5/8 [Paper] Centimeters: 33.34 x 24.45 [Paper] Product ID: 102137 Carte du Cours du Fleuve de St. Laurent, Depuis son Embouchure jusqu' au dessus de Quebec. Pour servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages. Echelle Lieues communes de France. Par M. B. Ing. de la Me. 1757. "Continuation of the Course of the St. Lawrence River, From its Mouth to above Quebec. To be used in the General History of Travel. Scale of common leagues of France. By M. Bellin, Naval Engineer. 1757" Map of the St. Lawrence River 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 publi