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Bellin: Antique Map of Arabia & Red Sea, 1728
Bellin: Antique Map of Arabia & Red Sea, 1728
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  • Map: 1728 Bellin Map of Arabia and Red Sea -- Carte de la Coste d'Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse
  • Cartographer: J Bellin
  • Year / Place: 1740, Paris
  • Dimensions: 8.6 x 9.8 in.
  • Condition: Very good. Clear impression, nicely outline colored. Faint toning. Issued folds.

    This is a very attractive map of Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea, with focus, and color outline, on the coastlines. The shoals and navigational hazards in the Red Sea and the pearl banks off the coast of Bahrain are also noted. The map has a large title cartouche as well as a compass rose.

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin(1703-1772) was a French cartographer, hydrographer and geographer. Born in Paris, Bellin was a member of the French intellectual group, the philosophes, a member of the Academie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. His career spanned over five decades in which he produced a large number of maps for the Dépot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine.

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  • Condition
    Very good. Clear impression, nicely outline colored. Faint toning. Issued folds.
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    Bellin: Antique Map of Arabia & Red Sea, 1728

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