- Title: Grundriss von der Rheede und Stadt Vera-Cruz
- Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
- Date: 1754
- Medium: Copperplate engraving
- Condition: Very Good Plus - age toning, light foxing and surface dirt, minor paper loss in left corners
- Inches: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 [Paper]
- Centimeters: 19.05 x 24.13 [Paper]
- Product ID: 313006
Grundriss von der Rheede und Stadt Vera-Cruz - im 19 Gr. 10 Min. Norder-breite und 100 Gr. 15 Min. gegen West von Paris gelegen.
"Plan of the wharf and the city of Vera-Cruz - in longitude 19 degrees 10 minutes North and latitude 100 degrees 15 minutes West of Paris."
Map of the city of Veracruz along the southeast coast of Mexico. Includes a legend which labels major sites and buildings. Scale marked in yards.
About the Cartographer:
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was a French hydrographer and geographer who produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. Appointed hydrographer of the French Navy at the age of eighteen, he eventually became Hydrographer to the King in 1741. Bellin published numerous sea atlases and charts which would be reprinted into the nineteenth century, as well as many maps depicting French colonial territories in the New World. His craftsmanship and commitment to accuracy earned him a distinguished reputation as one of the world's leading cartographers, and many other European mapmakers turned to him for source material.