Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), cartographer. Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre Nouvelle Yorck et Pensilvanie. [1757]. Image 297 x 204 mm, plate 312 x 2098 mm, sheet 334 x 247 mm (13 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.) McCorkle 1757.1; Sellers & Van Ee 721. 

FROM Antoine Prévost's  Histoire Générale des Voyages, ou Nouvelle Collection de Toutes les Relations de Voyages par Mer et par Terre... Volume IX. Paris: Didot, 1746-1759, Supplements, 1761-801. 

An attractive map plotted by important French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), for the monumental 15-volume compendium of travel literature Histoire Générale des Voyages. Published in the midst of the French and Indian War, the map includes established English colonies confined east of the Alleghenies and "Les Nations Iroquoises," encompassing Penobscot Bay to Chesapeake Bay and west to Lake Erie. Importantly, a town named "Village des Francois" situated in Western Pennsylvania along a branch of the Susquehanna River is evidence of French frontier intentions. 

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