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AUSTRALIA - INDIAN OCEAN, - CARTE REDUITE DE L'OCEAN ORIENTAL OU MER DES INDES ...

Maker / Publisher:		Bellin
Place & Date:		1757
Colored:		In attractive colors.
Size:		540 x 860 mm / 21.3 x 33.9 inches
Condition:		In very fine condition

Estimated value: $1000 - $1500

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An expansive, finely engraved chart reflecting growing French interest and presence in the vital trading areas represented here. The chart includes the coast lines of western Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indochina, India, Arabia along with the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, and much of the coast of Africa. This second edition significantly revised the first edition of 1740, including adding the decorative cartouche. In addition to expanding the chart's coverage to include the Philippines in the east and some of the west coast of Africa, it updated the east coast of Africa, Madagascar, the Gujarat Peninsula, the mouth of the Ganges River and Bay of Bengal, and the Malay Peninsula. Western Australia is now shown with seven place names, including "Baye des Chiens marins vue par Dampier en 1691" and "Coste veue par Mr. Duquesne en 1687."

The first edition of the chart filled in the gaps deliberately left in Isaac de Graaf's charts of the Indian Ocean given to the navigators of the VOC, clearly letting the Dutch know that the French had all the same information and were inserting themselves in this area. This second edition accelerated this process. The Dutch had dominated the trading routes between the Cape of Good Hope and Java throughout the 17th century before the French made successful inroads in the second quarter of the 18th century.

The coastal routes of Dutch shipping along the African, Asian and Indian coasts are well annotated and Bellin names some of the early Dutch and English discoveries on the west coast including de Witt (1628) and Houtman (1619). Other Dutch discoveries are accounted for but not named, such as Tasman’s north coast discoveries. Dampier’s 1699 landing at Shark Bay is noted Baye des Chiens Marins (Bay of Sea Dogs) veue par Dampierre en 1699, and Terres de Diuning qui sont basses et noyees. The Triall, Christmas and Cocos Islands are prominent as is Isle Cloate. As with Bellin’s Australian map, reference is made to a fictitious French voyage to Australia’s south-west coast in 1687 by Duquesne. It must be noted that, unlike previous maps of this area by Bellin, he now annotates the West coast of Australia with both the title of Terres Australes and Nouvelle Hollande.

Nicholas Bellin was born in Paris in 1703 and was appointed chief cartographer and hydrographer to the French Navy in 1721. He was appointed ingénier hydrographe to the French navy's Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine in August 1741. Bellin was also a member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. During his 50-year career, Bellin published a number of important atlases, including Hydrographie française (1753), Carte de l'Amerique septentrionale (1755), Petit Atlas Maritime (1764), and Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la géographie (1769).

Reference: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/blrcc/catalog/kr624sw4900 , Norwich #280.

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