ARTIST: Jacques Bellin
PUBLISHER: Depot de la Marine, Paris.
MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,
DATE: 1749.
EDITION SIZE: 21 1/8 x 32" (53.6 x 81 cm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: A pleasing and very well engraved chart. Issued in "Neptune americo-septentrional" by Depot General de la Marine, the official French Government agency of nautical charts. An accomplished work both as a sea chart and topographic work. Of interest, Florida is shown as an archipelago.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition save for some minor splitting along lower centerfold. Modern hand coloring.
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