J. N. Bellin (1703-1772)
Important First edition of this map of the Great Lakes. It was published in " Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France". "This map, by the famous French map and chartmaker Jacques Nicolas Bellin, was published in 1744 in Fr Oierre Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix's "Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France", which is one of the best eighteenth-century descriptions and accounts of North America. Charlevoix traveled Canada in 1720 to inspect the Jesuit missions there. Her journeyed throughout New France and Louisiana and down to the Gulf of Mexico via the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers in 1721-1722. He described in his work the possibilities and great beauty of the land he saw, especially near Natchez, mentioning such products as cotton, indigo and tobacco. Bellin had access to official journals, sketches, maps and charts of the earlier explorers, using such sources with great care and discrimination to produce some of the finest mapping of French America available in the eighteenth century." Goss, Size : 292x455 (mm), 11.50x17.91 (Inches), Black & White, 0
C.Walter Hodges
The current Globe Theatre in London is the third Globe. The first opened in 1599 and was built by the Lord Chamberlain?s Men, the company that William Shakespeare wrote for and part-owned.It is believed that the first play Shakespeare wrote for the original Globe was Julius Caesar in spring 1599. Later that year he also wrote As You Like It and made a start on Hamlet. Over the next fourteen years Shakespeare wrote some of his greatest plays, including Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. Other playwrights wrote for the Globe during this time, including Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton and John Fletcher.In 1613, during a performance of Shakespeare?s Henry VIII (co-written with Fletcher), a mis-fired prop canon caused the thatch roof to catch fire. The entire theatre burnt down within two hours., Image Size : , Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 566x768 (mm), 22.28x30.24 (Inches), Printed in Color, Offset Lithograph