Sunday, 1 August 2010

San Sebastian (1764)




An engraved chart showing the bay and town of San Sebastian in northern Spain with the island of St. Clara. Embellished with a rococo cartouche displaying the title and scale. This bay is known as "La Concha" (The Shell). The map was engraved by French geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) and published in Paris in 1767 within "Le petit Atlas maritime".

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