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Bellin: Antique View of Nanking & Peking, China, 1749
Bellin: Antique View of Nanking & Peking, China, 1749
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  • Map: Vue de Nanking [and on the same sheet] Vue de Peking
  • Cartographer: Didot / Tardieu
  • Place & Date: Paris / 1749/1760
  • Size: 5 3/8" x 4 5/8" (each view)
  • Condition: b&w; light overall age toning and minor spotting; margins extended with contemporary paper to fit the size of the atlas volume

    Panoramic views of two major Chinese cities from the atlas of Prevost d'Exiles' influential collection of travel narratives, Histoire Generale des Voyages. On the left is the beautifully engraved view of Nanking, today's Nanjing ("Southern Capital"); on the right is a beautiful view of the northern (and current) capital, Peking (Beijing). Both views are based on the observations of the Dutch traveler and "China hand," Johan Nieuhof.

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin(1703-1772) was a French cartographer, hydrographer and geographer. Born in Paris, Bellin was a member of the French intellectual group, the philosophes, a member of the Academie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. His career spanned over five decades in which he produced a large number of maps for the Dépot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine.

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  • Condition
    b&w; light overall age toning and minor spotting; margins extended with contemporary paper to fit the size of the atlas volume
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