Carte du Golphe de St. Laurent et Pays Voisins: Bellin 1780

Title: Carte du Golphe de St. Laurent et Pays Voisins Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1780 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, left and bottom margins trimmed, vertical folding lines Inches: 15 1/2 x 9 5/8 [Paper] Centimeters: 39.37 x 24.45 [Paper] Product ID: 317052 Carte du Golphe de St. Laurent et Pays Voisins Pour servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages. "Map of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Neighboring Countries For use in the General History of Travel." Map of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772). Includes Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and part of the St. Lawrence River. Published as part of Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles influential travel book, L'Histoire Generale des Voyages. Bellin produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Appointed hydrographer of the French Navy at the age of eighteen, he eventually became Hyd