Carte du Lac de Mexico: Bellin c. 1760

Title: Carte du Lac de Mexico Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: c. 1760 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, rough left edge from old binding, tide mark in upper left corner Inches: 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 [Paper] Centimeters: 19.69 x 24.13 [Paper] Product ID: 102131 Carte du Lac de Mexico et de ses Environs Lors de la Conqueste des Espagnols. Pour servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages. Echelle de Quatre Lieues. "Map of Lake Mexico and its Surroundings During the Conquest of the Spaniards. To serve the General History of Travel. Scale of Four Leagues." Map of Mexico City 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 published numerous sea atlases and charts which would be reprinted into the nineteenth century, as w