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Nicholas Bellin: Plan De La Nouvelle-Orleans Sur les Manuscrits du Depot des Cartes De la Marine . . .
Title: Plan De La Nouvelle-Orleans Sur les Manuscrits du Depot des Cartes De la Marine . . . Map Maker: Nicholas Bellin
Description: Bellin's map of New Orleans, originally issued in Xavier Charlevoix's Histoire de la Nouvelle France. The first state is distinguishable from subsequent states by the inclusion of the date, the position of the title of the map and the note in the lower right corner that the map was engraved by Dheulland. The map includes the earliest obtainable plan of New Orleans, complete with a key naming 18 placenames. The plan names the streets and well over 100 buildings ar shown. A nice example of this important early map of New Orleans.
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