Antique Map of Three Cities of China's Hubei and Hunan Provinces by Bellin, 1755

€ 165

One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.

Date: 1755
Mapmaker / artist: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (Artist)
Sheet size: 25.5 × 39 cm (10.0 × 15.4 in)
Condition: Good
Reference: BGJC-00135

Condition

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About this sheet

Antique print titled 'Plans de Quelques villes de la province de Hou-Quang.'

Three bird's-eye view plans of walled cities in what are now China's Hubei (Hou-Quang) and Hunan Provinces on a single plate from Prevost d'Exiles' influential collection of travel narratives, Histoire Generale des Voyages. From left to right, the plans are of Yongzhou (Yong Tcheou Fou), now in Hunan Province; Wuhan (Vou-Tchang-Fou), capital of Hubei Province; and Huangzhou (Hoang-Tcheou-Fou), now an urban district of the Hubei city of Huanggang.