"Carte des Isles Bermudes ou de Sommer Tire de l'Anglois", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

This attractive copper engraving of Bermuda is divided into parishes, here called Cantons. The map shows the best routes for entering the bays around the islands as well as forts, churches, towns, and navigational hazards. Rhumb lines radiate from the center of the map, with north oriented to the upper right. Decorated by a rococo-style cartouche and fleur-de-lis. This map appeared in Bellin's Description Geographique des Debouquemens qui sont au Nord de l'Isle de Saint Domingue and Le Petit Atlas Maritime.

References: Palmer (MCC-19) #38; Evans #1768-Bellin.

Condition: A

A crisp impression on a bright sheet of watermarked paper with one faint spot in the right blank margin.