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Carte de Spits-Berg suivant les Hollandois.

  • ARTIST: Jacques Bellin

  • PUBLISHER: Published Amsterdam.

  • MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

    DATE: 1758

  • EDITION SIZE: 8 1/2 x 11 7/8" (218 x 303 mm).

  • DESCRIPTION: This map appeared in Antoine Prevost's "Histoire Generale des Voyages." A detailed 18th-century map depicting the Svalbard Islands, formerly Spitsbergen. Information is prolific regarding coastal towns and bays, but topographic data is sketchier for the interior. The Svalbard Islands are located in the Arctic Ocean, halfway between Norway and the North Pole.

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