1665 Nieuhof Antique Print Imperial Palace Peking or the Forbidden City, Beijing Celestial The first edition was published

The first edition was published in London in instalments between 1751 and 1755

the apocryphal Lake of Chiamay roughly in what is today Assam

He was later involved in the 1872 surveying of the Overland Telegraph from Port Augusta to Darwin

is all that is definitely known

and pederasty was condoned as long as the younger male partner was not a freeborn Roman

1665 Nieuhof Antique Print Imperial Palace Peking or the Forbidden City, Beijing Celestial The first edition was publishedTitle : Platte Grondt van Skeyers Hof in Pekin; Forme de la Cour Imperiale de Peking Ref #: 17055 Size: 15in x 12 1 2in (380mm x 310mm) Date : 1665 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This original copper plate engraved antique print a birds eye view of the Imperial Palace & extensive gardens in Peking, now Beijing, or the Forbidden City by Johan Nieuhof was published by Jacob van Meurs in the 1665 edition of LAmbassade de la Compagnie