Recherche dans la collection - Parti Occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada. Par Mr. Bellin Ingenieur du Roy et de la Marine. Pour servir à l'intelligence des Affaires et de l'Etat present en Amerique, communiqué au public par les Heritiers de Homan, en l'an 1755. [cartographic material]

Ilus: Decorative cartouche.
*H2/903/1745 See H2/903/1755 (Bellin version) Copy 1 - in Dr. Wallot's office Copy 2 - black and white Copy 3 - same colour
Map of the area around the Great Lakes, showing and naming numerous physical features, towns, forts and Indian villages. The fictitious Isle Philippeaux is indicated in Lake Superior. This map is almot identical (this one reduced) to a map Bellin drew in 1745.* It was published in the Homan Heirs: Atlas geographicus maior exhibens...1795-[1781] and appeared as plate no. 146.
[Coverdale Collection]
Copy 3: Coverdale Collection (Manoir Richellieu), no. 546, 42046. References: Phillips, Phillip Lee: A List of atlases...(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909), no. 623. Karpinski, Louis: Bibliography of the printed maps of Michigan (Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission, 1931), p. 50, pl. XIV.

Scale 1:3,484,800

The microfiche version is NMC6549 (Copy 2), The microfiche version is NMC24590 (Copy 3), The microfiche version is NMC192994 (Copy 1), 42046