Observations Sur La Construction De La Carte De Locean Meridional Pour Servir Vaisseaux Du Roy

by Jacques Nicolas Bellin

$4,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Contemporary paper-backed boards. The very rare first edition of Bellin's extensive account of the Ocean Meridional. The work includes lengthy separate analyses of the coasts of Africa and of South America as recorded on the map. In addition to geographic locations, observations made in the regions by various explorers are cited. The cartographer Bellin was employed for more than five decades in the French Hydrographic Service, where he served as the first

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