Carte de L'Isle de Madagascar

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Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
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1765Format Extent
54 x 87,5cmRights
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Map.
Line scales given.
Title in plain cartouche bottom left.
Plate number top right: No. 93
Stamp in bottom right corner: Depot de la Marine, with the fleur de lys; below the map is the price - trente Sols.
Inset: Carte de L'Isle de Madagascar et du Canal de Mozambique.
Maps of Africa bearing a plate number first appeared in Bellin's "Petit Atlas Maritime" of 1764, a reissue of his "Petit Atlas Francais" of 1763; this map may be from a later ed.