18th century map of the environs of Chesapeake Bay
Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland, ou de la Baie de Chesapeack et Pays Voisins.
Amsterdam: Ernest van Harrevelt & Daniel Jean Changuion, 1773. Original hand colour. 185mm x 285mm.
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A different version of Bellin's map of the environs of Chesapeake Bay, with Maryland, Delaware (just before the settlement between Penn and Lord Baltimore, with Delaware properly shown as part of Pennsylvania), and part of Virginia.
Bellin's map was first issued in Prèvost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'; this example comes from Abbé Raynal's 'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etablissements & du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes'. Written in collaboration with other writers, including Denis Diderot, its Radical tone earned it a place on the Roman Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books, requiring it to be burned.








