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LE PAYS DES HOTTENTOTS
Aux Environs du Cap de Bonne Esperance
Published Paris c1750 by Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
An 18th century copper engraved chart of South Africa depicting the various Hottentot and other tribal areas around the Cape of Good Hope. Bellin's usual coastal detail includes rocks, shoals and anchorages.
Fine condition other than some printing creases and faint toning around the centre fold line. Fold lines as issued, blank verso.
Approx. 370mm x 270mm) on a medium grade hand laid paper.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 -1772) was chief cartographer to the French Navy and Hydrograhic office (Depot de la Marine). He produced many fine maps and seacharts in such publications as the "Atlas Maritime", and the "Hydorographie Francaise". He published 580 smaller format charts in the "Petit Atlas Maritime" and contributed many maps to Prevost's "Histoire Generale des Voyages". Noted for painstaking accuracy and fine workmanship his influence spread far beyond his native France.
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