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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-1772). Remarques sur la carte de l’Amérique Septentrionale. Paris: Didot, 1755. Quarto (245 x 178mm). Modern half russia over marbled boards. [With:]
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte de l’Amérique Septentrionale. [Paris, later 18th-c.] Engraved map handcolored in outline (649 x 972mm). Provenance: Donald Heald Rare Books.
The first edition of "one of the most important geographical books on North American of the 18th century" (Streeter), accompanied by the second issue of Bellin’s definitive map of French North America. Bellin was the Official Hydrographer to the French King and a contributor to Diderot’s Encyclopedie. His work provides an even-handed analysis of the extant information on the New World, incorporating reports from Russian explorers as well as those of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes – which relied heavily on information from Native American maps. Lada-Mocarski 13; Sabin 4559; Streeter sale 53 and 54; TPL 6408; Wagner 382; Wickersham 3536.
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Carte de l’Amérique Septentrionale. [Paris, later 18th-c.] Engraved map handcolored in outline (649 x 972mm). Provenance: Donald Heald Rare Books.
The first edition of "one of the most important geographical books on North American of the 18th century" (Streeter), accompanied by the second issue of Bellin’s definitive map of French North America. Bellin was the Official Hydrographer to the French King and a contributor to Diderot’s Encyclopedie. His work provides an even-handed analysis of the extant information on the New World, incorporating reports from Russian explorers as well as those of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes – which relied heavily on information from Native American maps. Lada-Mocarski 13; Sabin 4559; Streeter sale 53 and 54; TPL 6408; Wagner 382; Wickersham 3536.