Observatoire de Peking/Beschouwplaats der Starren (1748) The Old Observatory of Bejing is one of the oldest observatories in the world. The engraving shows the different instruments, some of them brought there by Jesuit priests: globes, astrolabes and armillary spheres. image 17x24, page 25,5x33 cm Copper engraving by Jacob van der Schley after an earlier example of Pierre le Comte and published in the more exclusive international version (with titles in Dutch and French) of ´Histoire Generale des Voyages, De Hondt, The Hague, 1748