Description geographique des isles Antilles possédées par les anglois

Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772, Didot, François-Ambroise, 1730-1804, printer, Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772, cartographer, Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) · 1758 · A Paris : De l'imprimerie de Didot, 1758. · 34 pictures

A 1758 Paris pilot guide by cartographer Jacques Nicolas Bellin, printed by Didot, describing the British-held West Indies and Bermuda for French mariners and readers. Its small decorative pieces are rococo cartouche and ornament blocks, with a designer taking from them the scrolls, shells, flourishes and pendant motifs of eighteenth-century French ornament.

Bermuda islands · Description and travel · France · Paris · Pilot guides · West Indies · West indies, british

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