CUBA

CUBA.

Cuba in a map of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1762).
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 12.11.1973.
Face value: 13 cents of Cuban peso.
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 1927.
- Scott No. 1852.
- StampWorld No. 1931.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2084.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1727.

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, or Bellini (Paris, 1703 - Versailles, 1772) was a French geographer and cartographer. In 1721 he was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) at the French Hydrographic Office. He was a member of the Académie de Marine and the Royal Society of London. In 1741 he became the first Ingénieur de la Marine of the Deposit of Maps and Plans of the Navy (the French hydrographic office) and was appointed hydrographic officer to the King of France. During his more than fifty-year career, he produced a large number of seas maps from around the world, including a large map of the sea of France called Neptune François, the Maritime Atlas, the Française hidrografique and the Petit Atlas Maritime en 5 volumes, containing 580 finely detailed miniatures.