1758 Bellin Map of Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante – Caribbean Islands

Name: 1758 Bellin Map of Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante – Caribbean Islands
Brand: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
SKU: BG-13618-19
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1758
Maker: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Kind: Maps
Size: 25.1 × 35.8 cm (9.9 × 14.1 in)
Condition: Excellent. Excellent condition. Strong and clean impression on fine laid paper with wide margins. Original hand coloring in outline and wash, highlighting coastlines and cartouches. Minor age toning at edges; verso blank.
Period: Colonial America
Places: The Lesser Antilles, The West Indies
Reference: BG-13618-19

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Guadeloupe and its dependencies, an original copper engraving by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, drawn for the Histoire Générale des Voyages and dated 1758. The sheet has original hand color in outline and wash, with green and yellow tints on the land and a yellow band along the neat line. It is titled "Carte de l'Isle de la Guadeloupe, Pour servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages."

The map shows the two wings of the island, Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre, divided by the narrow channel at the top, with hachured mountains, rivers, parishes, bays and anchorages lettered around the coast. Marie-Galante lies at the lower right, and the small group of Les Saintes sits below Basse-Terre. A compass rose with radiating rhumb lines fills the open sea in the center. A decorative cartouche with the title stands at the upper right, and a scale of common leagues of France is set in a cartouche at the upper left. Volume and plate references are printed in the lower margin.

Bellin (1703 to 1772) was Hydrographer to the French navy, and his charts for Prévost's travel collection were among the most widely used maps of the colonies in the mid-eighteenth century.

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