1757 Bellin Antique Map St Helena Bay, Western Cape South Africa - Vasco da Gama India This large original copper-plate engraved

This large original copper-plate engraved antique print by William Henry Hall was published in the 1798 edition of The new royal encyclopedia

Plate size: - 20 1/2in x 13 1/2in (520mm x 345mm)

Mixed with different cultural heritages

The account which has come down to us from Vasari (as usual keen to assert that everything flows from Florence) is that Mantegna began engraving in Rome

and the following year he was promoted to Lieutenant-General

1757 Bellin Antique Map St Helena Bay, Western Cape South Africa - Vasco da Gama India This large original copper-plate engravedTitle : Carte de la Baye de Sainte Helene Size: 10in x 7 1 2in (255mm x 190mm) Ref #: 25783 Date : 1757 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine original copper plate engraved antique map of St Helena Bay in Western Cape South Africa by Jacques Nicolas Bellin was published in 1757 in Antoine Franois Prevosts 15 volumes of Histoire Generale des Voyages written by Prevost & other authors between 1746 1790. Historically, Saint Helena Bay is