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China in Maps: 16th - 19th Century: (Gallery - part 1)

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IVNAN, QVEICHEV, E QVANGSI, PROVINCIE DELLA CHINA... c1695
CORONELLI, Vincenzo
60.5x45cm Colored
A set of six maps by Italian mapmaker Coronelli depicting 13 Provinces of China modeled upon the earlier maps by Joan Blaeu and Jesuit Martino Martini.
NANKING, ET HONAN, PROVINCIE DELLA CHINA... c1695
CORONELLI, Vincenzo
60.5x45cm Colored
A set of six maps by Italian mapmaker Coronelli depicting 13 Provinces of China modeled upon the earlier maps by Joan Blaeu and Jesuit Martino Martini.
REGNUM CHINAE c1596
BOTERO, Giovanni; METELLUS, Johannes
21x15cm Uncolored
An extremely uncommon small map of China published in a number of German Atlases issued by Metellus and others in Cologne in the last years of the 16th century. The model of the map is the earlier Ortelius-Giorgio (Barbuda) map of China of 1584.
QUANTUNG E FOKIEN, PROVINCIE DELLA CHINA... (1692), c1695
CORONELLI, Vincenzo
61x45.5cm Colored
A most attractive map of the Southern Provinces of Canton and Fukien including Hainan and Formosa. The map is notable for the fine vignettes of Chinese junks and ceremonial barges, and a large decorative title cartouche.
IUNNAN, QUEICHEU, QUANGSI ET QUANTUNG, PROVINCIAE REGNI SINENSIS, PRAEFECTURAE DICTAE c1700 or c1707
SCHENK, Pieter; VALCK, Gerard
52x46cm Colored
Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valck's decorative and scarce map of the South-West Provinces of China including Hainan and the Pearl River Estuary. This map was published in Covens and Mortier's 18th century composit Atlas. Beautiful cartouches and fine original color with some minor later additions.
PARTE OCCIDENTALE DELLA CHINA...PARTE ORIENTALE DELLA CHINA c1695
CORONELLI, Vincenzo
87.5x65.7cm Colored
A superb two-sheet map of China by the flamboyant late 17th century Venetian cartographer, Vincenzo Coronelli. The map is derived from the surveys of Martini and includes richly embellished title cartouches surrounded by scientific instruments.
CARTE GENERALE DE LA CHINE... 1737
BOURGIGNON D'ANVILLE, Jean B.
51x59cm Line colored
An important general map of China from the D'Anville "Nouvel Atlas de la Chine" and based upon Jesuit surveys prepared in 1708 and presented with further surveys of China which were the basis for D'Anville's maps. The Atlas itself contained 42 maps including the first depiction of Korea as a separate region on a Western map and the first detailed Western cartography of Tibet and Siberia. The general map was drawn together from the regional surveys and is far superior in its interior detail to any of its precursors especially the Blaeu Atlas Sinensis maps. The maps in the Atlas were still used as a model by Western cartographers and travelers until well into the 19th century.
OPULENTISSIMUN SINARUM IMPERIUM... c1745
SEUTTER, Matthaus
57.5x49.5cm Colored
A striking German map of China. The fine detail and engraving includes an elaborate allegorical title cartouche depicting Oriental and European figures.
SECUNDA ETAS MUNDI 1493
SCHEDEL, Hartman
51.5x36cm Colored
One of the earliest relatively obtainable incunabula world maps, published in Hartman Schedel's "Nuremberg Chronicle" 500 years ago. The map is a remarkable record of late Medieval cartography combining the outdated concepts of Claudius Ptolemy with the Biblical tradition, which here depicts the world divided between the three sons of Noah. The fine border and verso vignettes depict fabled mythical beasts and creatures believed to exist outside and beyond Christendom.
ORBIS TERRAE COMPENDIOSA DESCRIPTIO (1587), 1602
MERCATOR, Rumold
52x35.5cm Colored
A fine and influential double-hemisphere world map reduced by Rumold Mercator from his father Gerard Mercator's fine World Wall Map of 1569. The fine engraving reveals a large Southern Continent, an unusual delineation for the Far East and Japan and the distorted bulge in Southern South America. The map is set in a finely engraved strap work border surrounded with the descriptive Latin text in columns below.