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Cartes et plans de l'Amerique.

OTHER TITLES
Cartes geograp Ameriqu

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Paris? : s.n.], 1745.

NOTES
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings.

Dates on maps vary from 1717 to 1744.

Ttitle and date annotated in ink within etched title cartouche. Plates numbered in ink with a title often annotated on verso.

A composite atlas of maps of North and South America and adjacent islands and oceans predominantly by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, including 17 manuscript maps, of which 8 are signed by Bellin.

Reference: Phillips, 10267

Includes manuscript table of contents and index.

Plate 42a laid in. Plate 43 includes a laid in manuscript overlay of a battle.

Rebound spine incorporating original spine title and ornaments and original brown leather covered boards with central embossed gilded insignia.

Scales differ.

SUBJECTS
Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Western Hemisphere.
America.

RELATED NAMES
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772.

MEDIUM
1 atlas ([4] l., 59 leaves of plates) : 73 maps (some folded, mostly hand col.) ; 57 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G1100 .C3 1745 Vault fol.

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
g3290m gct00049 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3290m.gct00049

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