Carte du Golphe du Méxique et des Isles de l'Amérique: Bellin 1780

Title: Carte du Golphe du Méxique et des Isles de l'Amérique Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1780 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, left and bottom margins trimmed, vertical folding lines, tide marks in margins, pronounced vertical fold with light tide mark Inches: 16 x 12 [Paper] Centimeters: 40.64 x 30.48 [Paper] Product ID: 317048 Carte du Golphe du Méxique et des Isles de l'Amérique. Pour servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages. Par M. Bellin Ingr. de la Marine 1754. "Map of the Gulf of Mexico and the Isles of America. To be used in the General History of Travel. By Mr. Bellin Engineer of the Navy 1754." Map of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772). Published as part of Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles influential travel book, L'Histoire Generale des Voyages. Bellin produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Appointed hydrogra