Title of the map:
"CARTE DES ISLES PHILIPPINES Dressée sur la Carte Espagnole du R.P. Murillo de Velarde. 1e Feuille pour servir à l'Histoire générale des Voyages Par le Sr Bellin Ing de la Marine 1752".
Nice large antique copper engraved map of Philippines, by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772).
The map is based upon the work of Murillo de Velarde, considered as the most important mapmaker of the 18th century regarding the cartography of the Philippines.
The map names a number of coastal features, islands, and prominent mountains.
Size with margins : 23,4 x 17 cm / 9 x 6,6 inches
Condition : very good condition, a small part of right margin extended, strong paper
Edition : Paris, 1752, 18th century.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was the principal figure in French hydrography in the 18th century, although he had never personally conducted field surveys. In 1721 he entered the Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, barely a year after the establishment of this institution. He will spend his whole life there, having found in the rich documentary collections (maps and logbooks) gathered in this place an ideal ground for his taste for compilation. He draws tirelessly from the mass of information made available to him, which also brings him some quarrels with sailors who consider themselves robbed of their work, for example D'Après de Mannevillette, who does not hesitate to lodge a complaint in this regard with the Academy of Sciences. All this did not really harm Bellin, who was officially appointed Royal Hydrographic Engineer and Geographer Engineer of the Navy and Deposit of Maps and Plans in Paris.
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