1756 Bellin Map of Lake Champlain, New York (German Edition)

LakeChamplain-bellin-1756
$750.00
Karte von dem Fluße Richeliue und dem See Champlain Nach den Manuscripten des Schatzes von Karten Grüdrißen und Tagebüchern der Marine. - Main View
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1756 Bellin Map of Lake Champlain, New York (German Edition)

LakeChamplain-bellin-1756

State-of-the-art mapping of Lake Champlain at the outbreak of the French and Indian War.
$750.00

Title


Karte von dem Fluße Richeliue und dem See Champlain Nach den Manuscripten des Schatzes von Karten Grüdrißen und Tagebüchern der Marine.
  1756 (undated)     12.25 x 5.5 in (31.115 x 13.97 cm)

Description


This is the 1756 German edition of the 1744 Bellin map of Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence River. Bellin composed this map from French surveys conducted in the 1740s, making it one of the earliest accurate maps of Lake Champlain. This map was the state-of-the-art of Lake Champlain cartography and was the best available map of Lake Champlain at the outbreak of the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763) and the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). Bellin's work was only supplanted when the British published Brassier's map in 1776.
A Closer Look
The map depicts the region from the St. Lawrence River south to the See S. Sacrement, now called Lake George. Forts are labeled along the Richelieu River and on the banks of Lake Champlain. Numerous islands and bays appear within Lake Champlain, and several rivers empty into the lake.
Publication History and Census
This map was created by Nicolas Bellin in 1744 for Pierre François-Xavier Charlevoix's Histoire et Description Générale de la Nouvelle France, published in Paris. The present German edition was published in 1756 by Arkstée and Merkus in Allegmeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande. We note a single cataloged example of the present German edition in OCLC, which is part of the collection at the New York State Library. We have found only a handful of other instances when it has appeared on the private market.

CartographerS


Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - March 21, 1772) was one of the most important cartographers of the 18th century. With a career spanning some 50 years, Bellin is best understood as geographe de cabinet and transitional mapmaker spanning the gap between 18th and early-19th century cartographic styles. His long career as Hydrographer and Ingénieur Hydrographe at the French Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine resulted in hundreds of high quality nautical charts of practically everywhere in the world. A true child of the Enlightenment Era, Bellin's work focuses on function and accuracy tending in the process to be less decorative than the earlier 17th and 18th century cartographic work. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bellin was always careful to cite his references and his scholarly corpus consists of over 1400 articles on geography prepared for Diderot's Encyclopedie. Bellin, despite his extraordinary success, may not have enjoyed his work, which is described as "long, unpleasant, and hard." In addition to numerous maps and charts published during his lifetime, many of Bellin's maps were updated (or not) and published posthumously. He was succeeded as Ingénieur Hydrographe by his student, also a prolific and influential cartographer, Rigobert Bonne. More by this mapmaker...


Hendrik Kornelius Arkstée (c. 1700 - c. 1782) was a Dutch publisher active in Leipzig and Amsterdam. He was also, and more commonly, known as Johann Caspar Arkstée. He operated the publishing house Arkstée and Markus with his half-brother Henricus Merkus (1714 - 1774). Learn More...


Henricus Merkus (1714 - 1774) was a Dutch publisher. Born in Nijmegen, Markus worked with his half-brother Johann Caspar Arkstée (c. 1700 - c. 1782) in the publishing firm Arkstée and Markus in Leipzig and Amsterdam. Learn More...


Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J. (October 24 or 29, 1682 – February 1, 1761) was a French Jesuit priest, traveller, and historian, often considered the first historian of New France. He is best known for his Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France, in spite of the work being primarily based upon the manuscripts compiled by Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Lery, a French Canadian military engineer active throughout the Great Lakes region in the early 18th century. Charlevoix had been commissioned by the French Crown and the Duke of Orleans to explore French holdings in the Americas, primarily in order to find a profitable route to the Pacific - perhaps via the rivers and lakes west of the Great Lakes suggested by De l'Isle and Lahontan. Charlevoix was not above inventing discoveries: the imaginary islands in Lake Superior that appear frequently in 18th century maps can be laid at Charlevoix's feet, the results of his efforts to flatter his patrons (and patron saints.) Learn More...

Source


Charlevoix, P. F. X., Allegmeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande, (Leipzig: Arkstée and Merkus) 1756.    

Condition


Very good. Lower left margin reinstated at insertion point with no loss. Else excellent.

References


OCLC 607526292.