Carte des costes de la Floride Françoise : suivant les premieres découvertes

Carte des costes de la Floride Françoise : suivant les premieres découvertes. / dressée par N. Bellin Ing.r de la Marine.

Author/creator	Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772 cartographer.
Included Work	Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761. Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France.
Format	Map and Print
Publication Info	[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [1744]
Description	1 map : copperplate engraving ; 21 x 15 cm
Subject(s)	Southern States--Maps --Early works to 1800. Florida--Maps --Early works to 1800. North Carolina--Maps --Early works to 1800.

Cartographic data	Scale approximately 1:3,800,000 (W 83°32ʹ00ʺ--W 77°41ʹ00ʺ/N 34°28ʹ00ʺ--N 29°48ʹ00ʺ).
General note	Relief shown pictorially.
General note	Title shown above map.
General note	Shows scale as "Echelle de Lieues communes de France de 25 au Degré" above map.
General note	Shows longitude on the Paris meridian.
General note	Shows forts and names rivers.
General note	Shows a printed "39" at lower left.
General note	Published in Pierre François Xavier De Charlevoix's "Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France avec Le Journal Historique d'un Voyage fait par ordre du Roi dans l'Amérique Septentrionnale". The work was published with a variety of imprints in 1744 - Christie's.
References	Cumming, William P. The Southeast in early maps. Third edition, 259
References	Tooley, R.V. Printed Maps of America Part IV in Map Collectors' Circle 96, 693
Geographic coverage	Shows North America's Atlantic coast from Cape Fear (in North Carolina) to St Augustine (in Florida).
Acquisitions source	Joyner NC maps copy purchased from Lord Durham Rare Books, 3/8/2022
Genre/form	Early maps.
Genre/form	Early works.
Genre/form	Maps.
Genre/form	Early maps.

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	NC Maps	G3865 1744 .B45	✔ Available	Request Material