Carte de la Baye de Hudson: Bellin 1757

Title: Carte de la Baye de Hudson Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1757 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, issued center fold Inches: 13 1/2 x 9 5/8 [Paper] Centimeters: 34.29 x 24.45 [Paper] Product ID: 102136 Carte de la Baye de Hudson, Pour servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages. Echelle de Lieues communes de France. Par M. B. Ingr. de la Marine 1757. "Map of Hudson Bay, for use in the General History of Travel. Scale of common leagues of France. By M. Bellin Naval Engineer 1757." Map of Hudson Bay in Canada by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Includes portions of the provinces of Labrador, Newfoundland, Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec, and Nunavut.  Appointed hydrographer of the French Navy at the age of eighteen, he eventually became Hydrographer to the King in 1741. He published numerous sea atlases and charts which