Image: 1750 Bellin Map of Cape Town, South Africa - Geographicus - Gundriss-bellin-1750

Description: Featured here is a rare c. 1750 map of Cape Town, South Africa, by the French cartographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin. Map depicts the city and for of Cape Town in considerable detail with particular emphasis on the identifications of individual buildings and gardens. Text is printed in German and French.
Title: GRUNDRISS VON DEM FORT UND DER STADT AUF DEM VORGEBIRGE DER GUTEN HOFFNUNG.(Plan of the fort and the town on the promontory of Good Hope)
Credit: This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project.
Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
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