Coste Occidentale d'Afrique: Bellin 1739

Title: Coste Occidentale d'Afrique Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1739 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning Inches: 13 x 9 3/4 [Paper] Centimeters: 33.02 x 24.77 [Paper] Product ID: 102162 Coste Occidentale d'Afrique, Depuis le XIe. Dégré de Latitude Méridionale, Jusqu'au Cap de Bonne Espérance. Tirée de la Carte de l'Océan Méridional Publiée Par Ordre de Mgr. le Comte de Maurepas en 1739. "West Coast of Africa, From the eleventh Degree of Southern Latitude, to the Cape of Good Hope. Taken from the Map of the Southern Ocean Published by Order of the Count of Maurepas in 1739." Map of the southwest 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 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