Japan Korea Philippines East Indies 1746 Nicolas Bellin Antique Map 18th Century
SUITE DE L'OCEAN ORIENTAL Contenant LES ISLES DE LA SONDE, LES COTES DE TUNQUIN ET DE LA CHINE, LES ISLES DU JAPON, LES PHILIPPINES MOLUQUES Dressée sur les Divers manuscrits du Depost des Plans de la Marine Par N Bellin Ing de la Marine 1746. Several coastal towns are noted, but little depicted in the interior. In the center, a nice compass showing radiating.
Rhumb lines and a delicately engraved cartouche. Size with margins : 32,8 x 31 cm / 12,5 x 12,2 inches. In 1721 he entered the Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, barely a year after the establishment of this institution. He will spend his whole life there, having found in the rich documentary collections (maps and logbooks) gathered in this place an ideal ground for his taste for compilation.
He draws tirelessly from the mass of information made available to him, which also brings him some quarrels with sailors who consider themselves robbed of their work, for example D'Après de Mannevillette, who does not hesitate to lodge a complaint in this regard with the Academy of Sciences. All this did not really harm Bellin, who was officially appointed Royal Hydrographic Engineer and Geographer Engineer of the Navy and Deposit of Maps and Plans in Paris.
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