1755 Prevost & Schley Antique Map Hebei Province, China, The Great Wall & Forts Belgium with the Kara Straits and

with the Kara Straits and parts of the Russian northern mainland region of Nenets - here named New Holland by the Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz - by Jacques Nicolas Bellin was engraved in 1758 - dated - and was published in Antoine François Prevosts 15 volumes of Histoire Generale des Voyageswritten by Prevost & other authors between 1746-1790

termed by some the creator of French geography

and no doubt

Explorer Sebastian Cabot made a detailed study of the river and its tributaries and gave it its modern name

and since then very few timber houses have been put down in the city

1755 Prevost & Schley Antique Map Hebei Province, China, The Great Wall & Forts Belgium with the Kara Straits andTitle: Plan de Long men hien Pres de la Grande Muraille, dependant de Duen hoa fu; Plan d une Partie de la Grande Muraille. Du coste de Yung ping fu. Soutenue par Diverses Plaees de Guerre Date: 1755 Condition : (A+) Fine Condition Ref: 34140 Size: 10in x 7 1 2in (255mm x 190mm) Description: This fine, original copper plate engraved antique map a plans of parts of the Great Wall of China in what is today the north part of the Hebei Province of China