Description: THE SEA OF MARMARA BY MONSIEUR BELLIN Attractive and scarce copper engraving produced to accompany the 1854 edition of Roux's "Recueil des principaux plans des ports et rades de la Mer Mediterranee", first published 1764. The present map was published by Jean Joseph Allezard, Livorno 1854.Measures 130 x 190 mm. Good condition, see photo. Hand coloured. A guaranteed genuine antique map.JACQUES BELLIN Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer , geographer , and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes. Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office , member of the Académie de Marine and of the RoyalSociety of London. Over a 50-year career, he produced many maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine. His maps of Canada and of French territories in North America ( New France , Acadia , Louisiana ) are particularly valuable. He died at Versailles.In 1721, at age 18, he was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy. In August 1741, he became the first Ingénieur de la Marine of the Dépot des cartes et plans de la Marine (the French Hydrographical Office) and was named Official Hydrographer of the French King. During his reign the Depot published a prodigious number of charts and maps, among which were large folio-format sea-charts of France, the Neptune Francois. He also produced a number of sea-atlases of the world, e.g., the Atlas Maritime and the Hydrographie Francaise. These gained fame, distinction and respect all over Europe and were republished throughout the 18th and even in the succeeding century.Bellin also created smaller format maps such as the 1764 Petit Atlas Maritime (5 vols.) containing 580 finely detailed charts.Bellin set a very high standard of workmanship and accuracy thus gaining for France a leading role in European cartography and geography. Many of his maps were copied by other mapmakers of Europe.
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