1760 Nicolas Bellin Original Antique Map of Novaya Zemlya & Barent Arctic Russia Scandinavia Italy\'s commercial and political power

Italy\'s commercial and political power significantly waned with the opening of the Atlantic trade route and the route to the Indian Ocean via the Cape of Good Hope

but proceeded to the Hihifo district of Tongatapu

Ottoman etc by Adolphe Hippolyte Dufour was engraved by Charles Dyonnet in 1856 - dated in the title - for Dufours 1860 edition of his monumental elephant folio Atlas Physique

with the latter controlling the eastern half of the main island and the former the western half plus the islands south of Beagle Channel

1760 Nicolas Bellin Original Antique Map of Novaya Zemlya & Barent Arctic Russia Scandinavia Italy\'s commercial and political powerTitle : Carte des Pais Habites par Les Samojedes et Ostiacs Size: 12in x 10in (305mm x 255mm) Ref #: 60930 Date : 1760 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine original copper plate engraved antique map of Russian Island of Novaya Zemlya, parts of the Russian northern mainland region of Nenets and the environs of the Arctic Barents & Kara Sea by Jacques Nicolas Bellin was published in the 1760 edition of Antoine Franois Prevosts Histoire