Summary
Jacques Nicolas Bellin: Plan du Port de Pole dans l'Istrie
The map is from Le Petit atlas maritime: Tome IV. No 111.
The map shows the city of Pula (Pola) with the harbor and surroundings.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703- Paris, 1772), maritime cartographer and hydrographer. He served for fifty years in the French Hydrographic Service where he was appointed the first 'Naval Engineer Hydrographer' and 'Royal Hydrographer'. He made hydrographic measurements of coasts, first of France, and then of all known coasts of the world. His immense work resulted in the creation of a large number of high-quality nautical charts that appeared in multiple editions at the end of the 18th century. In addition to several maritime atlases, he also created the atlas Description Geographique du Golfe de Venise et de la Morée in Paris in 1771, which is located in the University Library in Split. It contains sailing instructions, maps and plans of coasts, coastal towns, harbors and anchorages. In that atlas, he presented the Croatian regions in detail, and some of these maps are: Coste de Dalmatie entre Ragoniza et Stagno, Avec les Isles qui sontau Sud Savoir Brazza, Liesina, Curzola, Lissa, Lagosta, Melede, etc.; Carte des embouchures de la Riviere die Narenta. Et Oartie de son Cours jusqu Ciclut; Carte de l'Etat de Raguse et isles voisines. He was a member of the Royal Society in London.
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