Suite de la Carte de la Sibérie et le Pays de Kamtschatka: Bellin c. 1760

Title: Suite de la Carte la Sibérie et le Pays de Kamtschatka Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: c. 1760 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning Inches: 12 1/2 x 11 3/8 [Paper] Centimeters: 31.75 x 28.89 [Paper] Product ID: 102161 Suite de la Carte de la Sibérie et le Pays de Kamtschatka Pour l'HIstoire Générale des Voyages. "Continuation of the Map of Siberia and the Country of Kamtschatka For the General History of Travel." Map of Siberia, Russia 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 Paris Meridian. Appointed hydrographer of the French Navy at the age of eighteen, Bellin eventually became Hydrographer to the King in 1741. He published numerous sea atlases and charts which would be reprinted into the nineteenth century, as well as many maps depicting French colonial territories in the New World. His craftsma