Plan du Port et de la Ville de Nangasaki
by Bellin, Jacques Nicolas:
- Used
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris, 1752. Copper engraving, 21 x 35 cm, engraved by Guillaume Dheulland, modern hand colour, blank verso. Plan of the port city of Nagaski, one of Japans chief points of contact with the outside world during the seclusion era. Prominent in the centre of of the map is Dejima, the artifical island in Nagaski harbour, from which the Dutch were allowed to trade (after the expulsion of the Portuguese in the 17th century). Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the "Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la Marine," charged by Louis XIV with mapping the coasts of France first and then the rest of the world. He was also a member of the Royal Society of London. Bellin compiled the maps for Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voyages, and he later reworked them for his Petit Atlas Francaise and his Petit Atlas Maritime. His plan of Nagaski was engraved for Charlevoixs 1736 work on Japan, adapted from Kaempfers sketch, but our example, with engravers name bottom left and volume and page information bottom right (rather than top right) is from Prévost. C.f. Walter, Japan, 100 and 101. Map
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- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9800
- Title
- Plan du Port et de la Ville de Nangasaki
- Author
- Bellin, Jacques Nicolas:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1752
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asia: Far East;
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.