Carte des Isles Philippines, 2e. Feuille: Bellin 1752

Title: Carte des Isles Philippines, 2e. Feuille Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1752 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, surface dirt Inches: 13 3/8 x 9 5/8 [Paper] Centimeters: 33.97 x 24.45 [Paper] Product ID: 102171 Carte des Isles Philippines, Dressée sur la Carte Espagnole du R. P. Murillo de Velarde 2e. Feuille. Pour servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages. Par le Sr. Bellin, Ingr. de la Marine. 1752 "Map of the Philippine Islands, Drawn from the Spanish Map of R. P. Murillo de Velarde 2nd Leaf. To serve the General History of Travel. By Sr. Bellin, Engineer of the Navy. 1752." Map of the southern half of the Philippines by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Longitude from the Ferro Meridian. Appointed hydrographer of the French Navy at the age of eighteen, Bellin eventually became Hydrographer to the King in 174