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An antique nautical chart, taken from Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s famous compendium *Hydrographie Françoise*, published in Paris in 1797, depicting one of the most crucial and treacherous maritime areas for European navigation between the 18th and 19th centuries: the Bay of Biscay (or Bay of Gascony). The chart is distinguished by a pragmatic approach that prioritizes functional readability: ornamentation is skillfully limited to the title cartouche and technical notes, leaving the main body of the map uncluttered…

• Author: BELLIN Jacques Nicholas
• Year: 1797
• Dimension: 855 x 543 mm
• Place of publication: Paris