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Decorative title cartouche. Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Shows settlements. Prime meridian is Paris., Bellin was an important maker of charts for the French Depot de la Marine. He was born in Paris in 1703 and educated as an engineer. He produced many important charts and published them individually and in compilations. The Neptune Francais was published in 1753 and the Hydrographie Francaise in 1756. His largest and most comprehensive work is the Petit Atlas Maritime with 581 charts (our copy has 582, including the rare "Carte Reduite des Decouvertes des Russe Entre L'Asie et L'Amerique.") that cover the coasts and important port cities of the known world. The Petit Atlas Maritime is probably the best compilation of plans of maritime towns and harbors of its time. Bellin died in Versailles in 1772. According to Tooley, Bellin issued an earlier version of this atlas in 1763 titled Petit Atlas Francois. The Duc de Choiseul provided financial support for the publication of the atlas. J. Arrivet is listed as engraver on the chart index pages and may also have engraved the charts themselves., P638 and P3508; National Maritime Museum 211; Tooley Mapping America, p208-209.

Engraved uncolored map, White see, bordering the Arctic Ocean to the north of the European part of Russia ., A rare and important military map covering nearly the whole of European Russia and parts of neighboring countries, by the famous Russian military cartographer Theodor Friedrich Schubert [Fedor Fedorovic Subert] (1789-1865), here in the Austrian edition published in Wien. At a scale of about 1:1,400,000, in 16 sheets, total map size 246 x 175 cm. each sheet 41x 66 cm. or smaller, folded into 4 segments and mounted on linen, placed in slip cover and leather case 28x21 1/2, with decorated borders. The title on the slipcase "Kriegsstrassen-Karte von Russland." stamped in gold. Shows a detailed view of the topography, roads, waterways, military colonies, old fortifications, etc. Map covers a large part of Finland to the north, extends to the west to Stockholm - Krakow, in the south, it shows the northern and eastern shores of the Black Sea to Tbilisi and Yerevan, and in the east it follows roughly line Astrakhan - Nizhny Novgorod - Vyatka. The map shows thus in addition to the Scandinavian countries and large parts of Poland, East Prussia, practically the whole of Ukraine, Romania, the Far East of Trabzon in Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Kazakhstan. Each part has its own border and scales, but they are designed so that they could be cut up and fitted together to make a very large wall map (see our composite image). The extensive key below the title on sheet III, gives symbols for cities, villages, churches and monasteries, fortresses and other military sites, political boundaries, roads, postal stations, lighthouses, etc. with transliteration of the Russian in parentheses. The summary sheet has been cut and pasted on the back of each map. See also our 1854 edition (6845.000) and our c1870 edition (6841.000).

Atlas provides colored monthly maps detailing the extent and character of the ice for each principal region of the Northern Hemisphere known to have seasonal or permanent sea or lake ice. Also includes statistical tables.

Atlas provides colored monthly maps detailing the extent and character of the ice for each principal region of the Northern Hemisphere known to have seasonal or permanent sea or lake ice. Also includes statistical tables.

This is the first true sea atlas, published as the fifth volume of Jansson's Atlas Novus. It consists of two parts, the Atlas Maritimus with 23 maps and a second part, the Atlas Antiquus with 10 maps. The title page does not show the title but does show the place of publication and the publisher and date. In Latin and Dutch., Koeman Me 164