A view of the Malabar Coast port of Dabul by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, 1736

Source: ebay, Jan. 2004

"VUE DE DABUL en 1736, by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), Royal Hydrographer, engineer of the French Navy and member of the Royal Society, London. This map was part of Prévost's Histoire générale des voyages and has folds as issued. Original 18th century copperplate engraving, modern handcoloring."

"Ville de Cochin," according to Bellin, c.1755

Source: ebay, May 2002

"Ville De Cochin, issued 1755, La Haye, by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, the important French hydrographic engineer, engraved by J. V. Schley. Hundreds of individual houses and buildings can be clearly discerned, including several towers, garden plots, and the walls of the fortified city. Several sailing ships are seen as well, plus the topography of the land outside the fort walls. With expert and attractive full hand color. This is the less common Dutch version, with text in both French and Dutch."

Views of Masulipatam, by Bellin, from Prevost, Histoire generale des Voyages, 1751

Source: ebay, June 2001