"Plan de la Ville de Boston", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
Subject: Boston, Massachusetts
Period: 1764 (published)
Publication: Petit Atlas Maritime
Color: Hand Color
Size:
6 x 8.3 inches
15.2 x 21.1 cm
This is an attractive and early plan of colonial Boston that extends to include the harbor, Charles Town and Isle Ronde. The map portrays the area in its early evolution. It details streets and wharves and locates, via a key, gun batteries, powder magazines, the Presbyterian church, prison, town hall, windmill and beacon. There is a simple compass rose in the harbor and distance scale in the key. Engraving at top neatline, Tome I, No 31, makes this the 2nd state.
References: Tooley (Amer), p.208, #105.
Condition: A
There are faint damp stains in the blank margins.
