Carte de l'Isle de Ceylan: Bellin 1750

Title: Carte de l'Isle de Ceylan Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1750 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light foxing and surface dirt, trifolds running both horizontally and vertically Inches: 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 [Paper] Centimeters: 30.16 x 30.16 [Paper] Product ID: 102144 Carte de l'Isle de Ceylan. Pour Servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages. Par M Bellin Ingr. ordre. de la Marine. Echelle Lieues Marines de France.  "Map of the Island of Ceylon. To be used in the General History of Travel. By M. Bellin Naval Engineer ordinaire. Scale of Nautical Leagues of France." Map of Sri Lanka by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Longitude west from the Ferro Meridian. Appointed hydrographer of the French Navy at the age of eighteen, Bellin eventually became Hydrographer to the King in 1741. He published numerous sea atlases and charts which woul