Chile maps. Juan Fernandez Islands Robinson Crusoe Bellin 1754

Title: Carte Particuliere de l’Isle de Juan Fernandes, Tiree du Voyage de l’Amiral Anson.
Top: Vue de l’Isle de Juan Fernandes.

Description: Old map of the Juan Fernandez Islands and view of the island coming from the East North East Coast.
The island is known from admiral George Anson's voyage around the world.

History: The islands were discovered about 1563 by Juan Fernández, a Spanish navigator, who received a grant and lived there for some years, stocking them with goats and pigs.
After his departure, the islands were visited only occasionally.
In 1704, however, Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish seaman, quarreled with his captain and was put ashore at Bahía Cumberland.
He remained there alone until 1709 and his adventures are commonly believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
The islands passed into Chilean possession in the early 19th century.
Since then, they have been used as penal settlements on many occasions, particularly for political prisoners.
Isla Santa Clara is now uninhabited.
Más a Tierra and Más Afuera are sparsely populated, most of their inhabitants being concentrated in the village of Robinson Crusoe on Bahía Cumberland.

Cartographer: Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 1772).
In 1721, at age 18, he was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy.
In August 1741, he became the first Ingénieur de la Marine of the Depot des cartes et plans de la Marine (the French Hydrographical Office) and was named Official Hydrographer of the French King.
Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. Over a 50-year career, he produced a large number of maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine.

Origin: Atlas Histoire générale des voyages.
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Size:
Sheet app.: 12.25 x 9.5 inches. 31 x 24.5 cm.
Image app.: 11 x 7.75 inches. 28 x 19.5 cm.
Condition: Excellent condition, original old colors, original atlas map, no defects, strong coloring.

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