Seguataneo - Zihuatanejo and Acapulco Mexico Bellin 1748

Title : Vue de L’Entree de Chequetan ou Seguataneo - Vue de L’Entree du Port D’Acapulco.

Description: Zihuatanejo or Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, old antique print from the Mexican state of Guerrero. Bottom view port of Acapulco or Acapulco de Juárez by the mapmaker Bellin.

Cartographer/mapmaker
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772)
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.

Engraved by Jakob van der Schley aka Jakob van Schley a Dutch engraver. He studied under Bernard Picart.
Most of the plates in the Dutch edition of Prévost's "Histoire générale des voyages" are signed by van der Schley.

Publishers: Prévost, Abbé, 1697-1763 - Meusnier de Querlon, A.-G. 1702-1780 - Pierre de Hondt, The Hague between 1747 – 1780.

Size:
Sheet app.: 20 x 16.5 cm. 8 x 6.5 inches.
Image app.: 17 x 11.5 cm. 6.75 x 4.5 inches.
Condition: 18th century antique map, in very good condition, no flaws.

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