Vue de l'Entree de Chequetan ou Seguataneo (and) Vue de l'Entree du Port d'Acapulco. (Two views on one sheet)

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• ARTIST: Jacques Bellin

• PUBLISHER: Published by Jean Francois de La Harpe, Paris.

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving

  DATE: c.1760

• EDITION SIZE: Image 7 3/4 x 13 3/4" (19.6 x 35 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: Bellin’s sea perspectives of the ports of Chequetan or Seguataneo (Zihuatanejo) and Acapulco, Mexico. These viewes appeared in Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages".<br><br> The cartographer Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was one of the most important and proficient French cartographers of the eighteenth century. He was appointed the first Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine, and also the Official Hydrographer to the French King.

• ADDITIONAL INFO: Manuscript number in lower margin "No. 271"

• CONDITION: Good condition. B/W

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• CATEGORIES: Maps