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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Karte von Dem Eylande Sumatra nach den Tagebuchern der Schiffer - Carte de l’Isle de Sumatra Drefsee sur les Journaux des Navigatuers.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin  (1703–1772)  wikidata:Q607846 s:fr:Auteur:Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
 
Alternative names
Jacques Nicolas, Sieur Bellin; Jacques Nicolas Bellin; Nicolas Bellin
Description French cartographer, encyclopédistes, geographer and hydrographer
Date of birth/death 1703 Edit this at Wikidata 21 March 1772 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Versailles
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artist QS:P170,Q607846
Title
Karte von Dem Eylande Sumatra nach den Tagebuchern der Schiffer - Carte de l’Isle de Sumatra Drefsee sur les Journaux des Navigatuers.
Description
English: This is a beautiful map of the island of Sumatra and the southern tip of the Malaysian Peninsula was produced by the French Cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. Depicts the entirety of Sumatra as well as much of modern day Malaysia. Includes the Straights of Singapore (Sincapour). Two decorative title cartouches decorate the map, one in French and one in German. This, the German edition, of is excpetionally rare.
Date 1852
date QS:P571,+1852-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 10 in (25.4 cm); width: 11.5 in (29.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,10U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,11.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Sumatra-bellin-1750
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