Carte reduite des costes occidentales d'Afrique. Premiere feuille contenant les costes de Barbarie depuis le Detroit de Gibraltar et les Isles Canaries.

Single sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale: [circa 1:2,000,000]. Mercator projection, with borders graduated for latitude and for longitude from the meridians of Paris, London, the Lizard, Teneriffe and Ferro Island. Rhumb lines. The scales are in French and English marine leagues. Soundings are shown on the Atlantic coast between Cap St Vincent and Saphie (Safi). Contains a florid title cartouche.

The 1754 edition of this chart was included in the atlas Hydrographie Francoise issued by the Departement de la Marine.

Object Details

ID: G213:5/1
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
Places: Eastern Atlantic
Date made: 1753
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Printed area 56 x 87.5cm, on sheet 63.5 x 93.5cm.