Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles de L'Amerique

Permanent Link:

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF90000145/00001

Material Information

Title:

Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles de L'Amerique pour servir a l'Histoire generale des voyages

Creator:

Bellin, Jacques Nicholas, 1703-1772 ( cartographer )

Place of Publication:

Paris

Publisher:

Publisher not identified

Publication Date:

1754

Language:

French

Edition:

Unnumbered edition

Physical Description:

1 map ; 27.3 x 37.8 cm, on sheet 34.0 x 37.8 cm

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:

Discoveries in geography -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 ( lcsh )
Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Caribbean Area ( lcsh )
Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Mexico, Gulf of ( lcsh )
Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- West Indies ( lcsh )
Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Florida ( lcsh )
Descubrimientos geográficos ( qlsp )
Región Caribe ( qlsp )
Antillas ( qlsp )
Florida ( qlsp )

Genre:

early maps ( aat )
Obras anteriores a 1800 ( qlsp )

Coordinates:

31.514869 x -99.060059, 8.463679 x -99.060059, 8.463679 x -58.630372, 31.514869 x -58.630372 ( Map Coverage )

Notes

Scope and Content:

Map of the Caribbean area with southern United States, eastern Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the West Indies islands. Shows the routes of Ponce de Leon in 1512, of Cortes in 1519 and of Hernandez de Cordoba in 1517.

General Note:

Copper engraving.

General Note:

Title and scale bar in decorative rococo style cartouche in upper right.

General Note:

Source of map from citation reference--cf. R.W. Shirley, Maps in British atlases.

General Note:

No. [31] from an untitled quarto size atlas factice of 74 maps dated 1738-1779.

General Note:

Other know editions of this map are printed with volume numbers, plate numbers and engraver's names in margin areas or with various imprints in the cartouche.

Citation/Reference:

Shirley, R.W. Maps in British atlases, M.BELL-6a

Funding:

Funded in part by the University of Florida, the Florida Heritage Project of the State University Libraries of Florida, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the U.S. Department of Education's TICFIA granting program.

General Note:

Relief shown pictorially.

Statement of Responsibility:

par M. Bellin, ingr. de la marine, 1754

Record Information

Source Institution:

University of Florida

Holding Location:

George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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Resource Identifier:

35376791 ( aleph )
1004308886 ( oclc )

UFDC Membership

Aggregations:

Digital Library of the Caribbean
World Map Collections
Caribbean Maps
Florida Maps
Caribbean Map Collection
University of Florida
Cuban Maps