1690 Nicolas Visscher Large Original Antique Map of Africa Australia Title : Gallia Vetus Title : Gallia Vetus This finely engraved original antique map of the course of the Amazon River according to the discoveries of the French explorer Charles Marie La Condamine by Jacques Nicolas Bellin in 1750 was published in Antoine François Prevost's monumental 20 volume edition of L`Histoire Generale des Voyages published by Pierre de Hondt all embellished with vignettes of harbours and principal towns and bordered with elaborate and colourful figures of their inhabitants In the next century there were many attractive maps including those of Mercator Hondius (1606)