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original hand-colour copper engraving, enhanced colouring, different cartouche: no right gridline.
VERY RARE special edition map of Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and Palawan, from ‘Le Petit Atlas Maritime Recueti de Cartes et Plans des Quatre Parlies du Monde en
Cinq Volumes’, tome III, no. 65 and 66; published in Paris; based on Father Murillo de Velarde’s map, the ‘Queen of all Philippine Maps’.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was among the most important and prolific mapmakers of the 18th Century. During his term, the Depot became the centre for the publication of sea charts, such as the ‘Neptune François’ and the ‘Atlas Maritime’ and the ‘Hydrographie Francaise’, popular well into the next Century. In 1721, at age 18, he became hydrographer to the French Navy and 20 years later, the First Ingénieur de la Marine of the French Hydrographic Office and Official Hydrographer of the French King.
with centerfold as issued, faint mirroring due to wet printer’s ink.
