 | Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville et Cité de St. Francisco de Quito...
£125.00
Paris, 1764. 195 x 335mm, wide margins. Coloured. Plan of the city of Quito, with an extensive key.
Published in Prevost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages', this example from the rare de luxe edition of 1764.
The 'Histoire générale des Voyages', written by The Abbé Antoine François Prévost (1697-1763) was published in 15 volumes between 1746 and 1759, with illustrations and maps supplied by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-72).
Bellin was made hydrographer to the French Navy at 18 and Official Hydrographer of the French King twenty years later. He also contributed 994 articles to Diderot's 'Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers' (1751-72).
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